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Harg, Missouri

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 2000. It stands in Columbia Township. It lies in ZIP code area 65201. The Survey maps it on the Millersburg quadrangle.

Harg within Boone County

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 22 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.

What happened here

An account from the chapter on Columbia township. The inset identifies its exact source book and publication year.

From History of Boone County, Missouri. Written and Comp. from the Most Authentic Official and Private Sources; Including a History of Its Townships, Towns, and Villages. Together with a Condensed History of Missouri; the City of St. Louis ... Biographical Sketches and Portraits of Prominent Citizens .., published 1882 - Columbia Township

Killed By A Falling Tree

In 1825 a little nine-year-old boy named AVilliam R. Wright, whose parents lived in this township, was killed at a point in Missouri township, on what is now known as the Hume farm. He was buried where is now a garden, on the farm of Sidne}^ Hume. The Indians had set the woods on fire and the boy, with his father and some others of the settlers, was out fighting the flames, and a burning tree fell on him and killed him instantly.

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In the county-history sources

98,879 words on this township

History of Boone County, Missouri. Written and Comp. from the Most Authentic Official and Private Sources; Including a History of Its Townships, Towns, and Villages. Together with a Condensed History of Missouri; the City of St. Louis ... Biographical Sketches and Portraits of Prominent Citizens .., published 1882 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Columbia Township covers topography, fine farms, early settlers and settlements, pioneer life, the first mills, killed by a tree.

Read the chapter on Columbia Township - 98,879 words.

Fires near this place

7 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Harg between 1992 and 2007, burning about 130 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
Debris and open burning2
Smoking2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
1 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
2 August 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresMissouri State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
9 April 1992Debris and open burning120 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
2 April 2005Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
5 March 1992Smoking1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
29 March 2005Equipment and vehicle use4.0 acresMissouri State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
13 March 2005Smokingunder an acreMissouri State Fire Marshal's Officenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Boone County

Mines and quarries near this place

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Harg: 6 past producers, 1 unknown, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Fire Clay (Refractory), Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay. 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
Columbia Brick & Tile Clay Pit-PlntClayProducer
Unknown - Ls.Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - Ls.Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - Ls.Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - ClayFire Clay (Refractory)Unknown
Unknown - ClayFire Clay (Refractory)Past Producer
Unknown - ClayFire Clay (Refractory)Past Producer
Unknown - ClayFire Clay (Refractory)Past Producer

Every working recorded in Boone County

Storms near this place

7 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Harg in 7 storm reports between 2011 and 2026: 5 thunderstorm wind, 1 lightning, 1 hail. 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
July 2011LightningHarg$25,000Lightning struck a two story house on Clark Lane causing a fire. No injuries were reported and fortunately the fire department was able to extinguish the flames fairly quickly. Damage was estimated around $25,000.
March 2026Thunderstorm WindHarg-A Bradford Farm Missouri Mesonet weather station measured wind gust.
April 2025Thunderstorm WindHarg-The Columbia-Bradford Missouri Agricultural site measured a 66 mph thunderstorm wind gust.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindHarg-Thunderstorm winds blew down a large tree limb onto East New Haven Road. Also, a large tree was blown down onto Highway WW at the intersection with Blackthorn Lane.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindHarg-no account filed
September 2012HailHarg-no account filed
May 2011Thunderstorm WindHarg-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Boone 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
Shaw3.6 miles22
Deer Park4.6 miles21
Summerville (historical)4.7 miles23
Moores Switch5.0 miles29
Ginlet5.1 miles23
Boonesborough (historical)5.5 miles22
Columbia5.7 miles29
Smithton (historical)5.9 miles29

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 750228. 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.