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Hardin, Missouri

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1982. It stands in Crooked River Township. It lies in ZIP code area 64035. It stands on Dangerous Branch. The Survey maps it on the Hardin quadrangle. 571 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 696 feet above sea level.

Hardin within Ray County

Population over time

2 figures

Hardin grew from 569 to 571 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
2010569
2020571+2 (+0%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 15 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

In the county-history sources

197 words on this township

History of Ray County, Mo., published 1881 names this settlement in its chapter on Crooked River Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

The southern portion of the township is bottom land; the north, central, and eastern portions gently undulating prairie, of deep Jand productive soil. Timber abounds on Crooked river, and the larger portion of what is now Crooked River township was, when first settled, covered with dense forest. Hardin and Morton are the villages in this township, and will be mentioned in connection with the history of the towns in Raycounty, to be found in this volume.

Passage source: History of Ray County, Mo., published 1881.

Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.

Read the whole chapter on Crooked River Township.

Fires near this place

7 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Hardin between 2011 and 2014, burning about 139 acres in total. None started naturally. None was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Equipment and vehicle use3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Debris and open burning1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
14 July 2011Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
2 April 2011Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
10 April 2014Equipment and vehicle use120 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
1 April 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
3 November 2011Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
30 October 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined11 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
15 October 2011Debris and open burning3.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ray County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Hardin: 3 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Unknown S&GSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Ray County

Storms near this place

9 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hardin in 9 storm reports between 1995 and 2022: 5 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 1 tornado. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2003Tornado (F0)Hardin$30,000Tornado touched down 4 miles north of Hardin and moved one mile northeast before lifting. The tornado damaged power lines, sheds, roofs and one business.
March 2006Thunderstorm WindHardin$1,000Damage to out buildings reported.
June 1995Thunderstorm WindHardin$1,000Severe thunderstorm winds downed several trees in Hardin.
July 2009Thunderstorm WindHardin-Power lines and trees were reported down between Highways J and 10.
May 2000HailHardin-Hail up to golfball size covered the ground.
March 2022HailHardin-no account filed
May 2000HailHardin-no account filed
July 2000Thunderstorm WindHardin-no account filed
June 1996Thunderstorm WindHardin-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Ray County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Morton3.6 miles15
Lakeview4.7 miles15
Henrietta5.9 miles17
Rockingham6.5 miles15
Richmond7.6 miles15
Russellville9.4 miles15
Saint Cloud9.9 miles17
Dockery10.3 miles15

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on HardinAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q953399The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 730114. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.