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New Harmony, Ohio

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1914 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Pike Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45176. The Survey maps it on the Williamsburg quadrangle.

New Harmony within Brown County

Then and now

1914 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 72 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of New Harmony, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of New Harmony, surveyed 1914

Topographic sheets covering this place

18 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 1883 county history

18,904 words on this township

The county history of 1883 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for the smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Pike Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Pike Township - 18,904 words.

Fires nearby

1 since 2012

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of New Harmony between 2012 and 2012, burning about 0 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 burning1

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
18 November 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Brown County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 280 shown

Museums hold 280 specimens collected within 10 miles of New Harmony between 1886 and 1974: 152 Animalia, 103 Fungi, 23 Plantae, 2 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A JOHN, A. Braun, Baur, Kay E. and others. Each is a physical object with a catalogue number, and each entry opens the museum's record. This is what was collected and kept, not a survey of what lives here - nothing can be concluded from a species being absent.

Image SpeciesYear Collected by Where, as recorded
Specimen of Hirneola auricularis (Gray) DonkHirneola auricularis (Gray) Donk1903Blickle, A.H.Brown County, Ohio
Specimen of Caloptilia speciosella (Braun, 1939)Caloptilia speciosella (Braun, 1939)1929A. Braun[Not Stated]
Specimen of Fomes conchatus (Pers.) GilletFomes conchatus (Pers.) Gillet1934Kaps, C.Locust Ridge
Chordata1886Smithsonian Institution
A photograph of the species Uromyces phaseoli, not of this specimenUromyces phaseoli G.Winter1905Stephens J.Mt. Orab
A photograph of the species Perenniporia robiniophila, not of this specimenPerenniporia robiniophila (Murrill) Ryvarden1909J. P. Tracy
A photograph of the species Polytrichum ohioense, not of this specimenPolytrichum ohioense Renauld & Cardot1915Fulford, MargaretBlowville Flats
A photograph of the species Anaptychia palmulata, not of this specimenAnaptychia palmulata (Michx.) Vain.1923Braun, E. LucyWhite Oak Creek
A photograph of the species Peltigera praetextata, not of this specimenPeltigera praetextata (Flörke ex Sommerf.) Zopf1923Braun, E. LucyWhite Oak
A photograph of the species Usnea subfloridana, not of this specimenUsnea subfloridana Stirt.1923Braun, E. LucyWhite Oak
A photograph of the species Septoria polygonorum, not of this specimenSeptoria polygonorum Desm.1925Overholts, L. O.Greenbush
A photograph of the species Cercospora elongata, not of this specimenCercospora elongata Peck1926Overholts, L. O.Greenbush

All 280 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms nearby

2 since 2019

The National Weather Service names New Harmony in 2 storm reports between 2019 and 2024: 2 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 2019Thunderstorm WindNew Harmony$10,000Multiple power poles were knocked down across the road.
March 2024Thunderstorm WindNew Harmony$4,000A few trees were downed.

Every storm recorded in Brown 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
Locust Ridge1.5 miles12
Andersonville2.3 miles13
Eastwood2.8 miles13
Shiloh3.2 miles10
Bodman3.2 miles13
Neals Corner4.0 miles10
Mount Orab5.0 miles13
Yankeetown5.1 miles12

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 New HarmonyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q22134028The 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 1049008. 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.

Specimens. Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), https://www.gbif.org/. Only records licensed CC0 or CC BY are used. Records licensed CC BY-NC are excluded because this site carries advertising. Images are checked individually and any whose licence is non-commercial, no-derivatives or unreadable is refused.

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.