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Harmony, Texas

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Nacogdoches census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75964. The Survey maps it on the Lake Nacogdoches South quadrangle.

Harmony within Nacogdoches County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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

218 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 218 fires within 5 miles of Harmony between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,028 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 6 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
Debris and open burning127
Missing data/not specified/undetermined39
Equipment and vehicle use14
Power generation/transmission/distribution10
Smoking8
Natural8
Arson/incendiarism6
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Recreation and ceremony1
Other causes1
Fireworks1

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 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
7 September 1993Debris and open burning15 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
5 September 2015Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service7100
5 September 2014Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceJOSEPH MAST
5 September 1998Debris and open burning10 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
4 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRAS FIRE
4 September 2019Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceNACOGDOCHES 11:45
30 September 2014Equipment and vehicle use6.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service#7053

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Nacogdoches 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
Bonaldo2.2 miles11
Alazan3.8 miles11
Climax4.9 miles15
Eden6.1 miles11
Fredonia Hill7.1 miles13
Hayward Junction7.6 miles13
Nacogdoches7.9 miles13
Orton Hill8.4 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1383740. 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.