Harmony, Texas

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the San Augustine census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75935. It stands on Sandy Creek. The Survey maps it on the San Augustine West quadrangle.

Harmony within San Augustine 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.

1953 USGS Palestine quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1957 USGS Palestine quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS San Augustine quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1984 USGS Palestine quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1984 USGS San Augustine West quadrangle1:24000
1986 USGS Nacogdoches quadrangle1:100000
1992 USGS Nacogdoches quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

74 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 74 fires within 5 miles of Harmony between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,127 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 5 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 burning	39
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	11
Power generation/transmission/distribution	8
Arson/incendiarism	5
Natural	4
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Fireworks	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	1
Other causes	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
8 September 1993	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
29 September 2006	Debris and open burning	20 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	HENDERSON - 574
22 September 2005	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	WOODVILLE - 251
16 September 2013	Railroad operations and maintenance	30 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	7127
15 September 1999	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
9 August 2012	Natural	1.0 acres	Livingston Area	WOODVILLE - 9080
8 August 1993	Arson/incendiarism	3.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
8 August 1992	Debris and open burning	7.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in San Augustine 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Ironosa	3.0 miles	11
Calgary	3.5 miles	12
Redland	3.6 miles	11
Bland Lake	4.3 miles	12
Camp Worth (historical)	5.7 miles	11
New Hope	6.2 miles	11
Union	6.7 miles	11
San Augustine	7.3 miles	12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1379894. 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.