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Harmony Corners, New York

34 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Charlton town. It lies in ZIP code area 12020. The Survey maps it on the Burnt Hills quadrangle.

Harmony Corners within Saratoga County

Then and now

1893 to 1989

The same ground, surveyed 96 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Harmony Corners, surveyed 1989
Topographic sheet of Harmony Corners, surveyed 1893

Topographic sheets covering this place

16 surveys from 34 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

208 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 208 fires within 5 miles of Harmony Corners between 1992 and 2020, burning about 201 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 33 were 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined120
Arson/incendiarism33
Misuse of fire by a minor15
Debris and open burning14
Smoking8
Natural8
Equipment and vehicle use4
Recreation and ceremony3
Power generation/transmission/distribution3

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
9 September 2002Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 September 2002Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
5 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.6 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
27 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
25 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
24 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
23 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
21 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Saratoga County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Harmony Corners: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Aqueduct Schenectady Sandstone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducerSedimentary

Every working recorded in Saratoga County

Storms near this place

6 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Harmony Corners in 6 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 6 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
June 2004Thunderstorm WindHarmony Corners$5,000Trees and power lines down. Chimney blown off house.
June 1994Thunderstorm WindHarmony Corners$5,000no account filed
June 2024Thunderstorm WindHarmony Corners$2,000A tree and wires were downed on Peaceable Street near Harmony Corners.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindHarmony Corners-Tree and wires were reported down.
May 2020Thunderstorm WindHarmony Corners-A one-foot diameter tree was downed, blocking the westbound lanes of Route 67 at Sweetman Road.
July 2014Thunderstorm WindHarmony Corners-Three trees were reportedly downed by thunderstorm winds 5 miles north-northwest of Burnt Hills.

Every storm recorded in Saratoga 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
Holbrook Corners1.2 miles34
Birchton1.8 miles28
Silver Springs2.9 miles34
South Galway Corner3.1 miles28
Charlton3.1 miles34
Mourningkill Estates3.3 miles34
West Corners3.4 miles28
Vienna Heights3.5 miles34

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.

Wikidata item Q122558001The 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 952244. 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.