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New Harmony, Texas

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1944 and the latest in 2003. It stands in the Shelbyville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75973. It stands on Lick Branch. The Survey maps it on the Patroon North quadrangle.

New Harmony within Shelby County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 14 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

25 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 25 fires within 5 miles of New Harmony between 1995 and 2020, burning about 350 acres in total. None 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 burning10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Arson/incendiarism5
Smoking2
Recreation and ceremony1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
14 September 1999Debris and open burning3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
10 September 2005Debris and open burning3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 238
5 August 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service7073
26 August 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.3 acresNational Forests And Grasslands In TexasHARMONY
25 August 2010Smoking2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 096
22 July 2006Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreNational Forests And Grasslands In TexasROADSIDE
3 June 2011Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 176
9 May 2003Debris and open burning5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 107

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Shelby County

Storms near this place

7 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names New Harmony in 7 storm reports between 2008 and 2024: 6 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood. 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
April 2024Flash FloodNew Harmony-Flash flooding reported with high water covering FM Road 414.
March 2022Thunderstorm WindNew Harmony-Multiple trees down on and near County Road 2033 east of Center.
March 2022Thunderstorm WindNew Harmony-Multiple large trees were downed across FM 2026 east of Center.
September 2020Thunderstorm WindNew Harmony-Numerous trees were downed on FM 414 just north of Highway 87. Other trees were downed nearby on County Road 2033 off of Highway 87.
March 2014Thunderstorm WindNew Harmony-Trees and powerlines downed were widespread across mainly the southern half of the county. Power outages were widespread as well.
July 2014Thunderstorm WindNew Harmony-Trees were downed on 417 east of Falsom, Chapel Road, County Road 1140 and 84 east.
February 2008Thunderstorm WindNew Harmony-Sheriff's office reported a tree down along CR.417 near Hwy. 87 in Shelbyville, Texas.

Every storm recorded in Shelby 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
Jordans Store3.9 miles14
Hurstown4.5 miles12
Dreka4.9 miles14
Huxley5.2 miles13
Shelbyville5.7 miles13
Campti6.7 miles13
Ragtown6.8 miles14
Goober Hill6.8 miles14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2034933. 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.

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.