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.
Population over time
2 figuresHardin 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 569 | |
| 2020 | 571 | +2 (+0%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 15 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1889 USGS Lexington quadrangle1:125000, 6 printings
- 1953 USGS Moberly quadrangle1:250000
- 1954 USGS Moberly quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Hardin quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Moberly quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Moberly quadrangle1:250000
- 1982 USGS Marshall quadrangle1:100000
In the county-history sources
197 words on this townshipHistory 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.
Fires near this place
7 since 2011Regional 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 use | 3 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
| Debris and open burning | 1 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14 July 2011 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 2 April 2011 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 10 April 2014 | Equipment and vehicle use | 120 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 1 April 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 3 November 2011 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 1.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 30 October 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 11 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 15 October 2011 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
3 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unknown S&G | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown Ls | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown Ls | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
9 since 1995Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2003 | Tornado (F0) | Hardin | $30,000 | Tornado 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 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hardin | $1,000 | Damage to out buildings reported. |
| June 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hardin | $1,000 | Severe thunderstorm winds downed several trees in Hardin. |
| July 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hardin | - | Power lines and trees were reported down between Highways J and 10. |
| May 2000 | Hail | Hardin | - | Hail up to golfball size covered the ground. |
| March 2022 | Hail | Hardin | - | no account filed |
| May 2000 | Hail | Hardin | - | no account filed |
| July 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hardin | - | no account filed |
| June 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hardin | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Morton | 3.6 miles | 15 | |
| Lakeview | 4.7 miles | 15 | |
| Henrietta | 5.9 miles | 17 | |
| Rockingham | 6.5 miles | 15 | |
| Richmond | 7.6 miles | 15 | |
| Russellville | 9.4 miles | 15 | |
| Saint Cloud | 9.9 miles | 17 | |
| Dockery | 10.3 miles | 15 |
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 Hardin | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q953399 | The 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.






