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Harmon, North Dakota

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the East Morton unorganized territory. It lies in ZIP code area 58554. The Survey maps it on the Harmon quadrangle. 259 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,647 feet above sea level.

Harmon within Morton County

Population over time

2 figures

Harmon grew from 145 to 259 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
2010145
2020259+114 (+79%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 10 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.

Fires near this place

9 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Harmon between 2003 and 2020, burning about 478 acres in total. 1 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 burning4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Fireworks1
Natural1

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
6 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest Service156 ST FIRE
23 August 2003Natural400 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceMORTON COUNTY
13 August 2018Fireworks50 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceHOGUE ISLAND FIRE
8 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNorth Dakota State Forest Service97TH AVE
5 May 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceDOUBLE DITCH
22 April 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreNorth Dakota State Forest Service167
31 March 2015Debris and open burning1.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceBURNT CREEK ISLAND
8 November 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined25 acresNorth Dakota State Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Morton County

Storms near this place

1 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Harmon in 1 storm report in 2008: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 2008Thunderstorm WindHarmon-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Morton 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
Rock Haven6.4 miles10
Sunny8.4 miles10
Mandan9.2 miles10
Frontier Homesteads9.6 miles11
Meadow Park9.7 miles10
Twin City Estates10.7 miles11
Lyons11.1 miles5
Sweet Briar13.9 miles5

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 HarmonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4138197The 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 1033862. 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.

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.