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.
Then and now
1914 to 1986The 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 sheets covering this place
18 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.
- 1914 USGS Batavia quadrangle1:48000
- 1916 USGS Batavia quadrangle1:62500
- 1916 USGS Batavia quadrangle1:62500
- 1916 USGS Batavia quadrangle1:62500
- 1916 USGS Batavia quadrangle1:62500
- 1953 USGS Cincinnati quadrangle1:250000
- 1953 USGS Cincinnati quadrangle1:250000
- 1953 USGS Cincinnati quadrangle1:250000
- 1953 USGS Williamsburg quadrangle1:24000
- 1953 USGS Williamsburg quadrangle1:24000
- 1957 USGS Cincinnati quadrangle1:250000
- 1968 USGS Williamsburg quadrangle1:24000
- 1968 USGS Williamsburg quadrangle1:24000
- 1968 USGS Williamsburg quadrangle1:24000
- 1968 USGS Williamsburg quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Cincinnati quadrangle1:100000
- 1986 USGS Cincinnati quadrangle1:100000
- 1986 USGS Cincinnati quadrangle1:100000
In the 1883 county history
18,904 words on this townshipThe 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 2012The 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 burning | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18 November 2012 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Specimens collected nearby
12 of 280 shownMuseums 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 | Species | Year | Collected by | Where, as recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | Hirneola auricularis (Gray) Donk | 1903 | Blickle, A.H. | Brown County, Ohio |
![]() | Caloptilia speciosella (Braun, 1939) | 1929 | A. Braun | [Not Stated] |
![]() | Fomes conchatus (Pers.) Gillet | 1934 | Kaps, C. | Locust Ridge |
| Chordata | 1886 | Smithsonian Institution | ||
![]() | Uromyces phaseoli G.Winter | 1905 | Stephens J. | Mt. Orab |
![]() | Perenniporia robiniophila (Murrill) Ryvarden | 1909 | J. P. Tracy | |
![]() | Polytrichum ohioense Renauld & Cardot | 1915 | Fulford, Margaret | Blowville Flats |
![]() | Anaptychia palmulata (Michx.) Vain. | 1923 | Braun, E. Lucy | White Oak Creek |
![]() | Peltigera praetextata (Flörke ex Sommerf.) Zopf | 1923 | Braun, E. Lucy | White Oak |
![]() | Usnea subfloridana Stirt. | 1923 | Braun, E. Lucy | White Oak |
![]() | Septoria polygonorum Desm. | 1925 | Overholts, L. O. | Greenbush |
![]() | Cercospora elongata Peck | 1926 | Overholts, L. O. | Greenbush |
All 280 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
Storms nearby
2 since 2019The 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | New Harmony | $10,000 | Multiple power poles were knocked down across the road. |
| March 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | New Harmony | $4,000 | A few trees were downed. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Locust Ridge | 1.5 miles | 12 | |
| Andersonville | 2.3 miles | 13 | |
| Eastwood | 2.8 miles | 13 | |
| Shiloh | 3.2 miles | 10 | |
| Bodman | 3.2 miles | 13 | |
| Neals Corner | 4.0 miles | 10 | |
| Mount Orab | 5.0 miles | 13 | |
| Yankeetown | 5.1 miles | 12 |
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 Harmony | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q22134028 | 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 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.




























