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New Harmony, Texas

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1948 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Lindale census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75704. The Survey maps it on the Mount Sylvan quadrangle. It stands 492 feet above sea level.

New Harmony within Smith County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 15 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

237 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 237 fires within 5 miles of New Harmony between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,618 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 18 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 burning153
Missing data/not specified/undetermined34
Arson/incendiarism18
Equipment and vehicle use13
Natural9
Smoking5
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
7 September 2009Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service9484 CR 414
7 September 1998Debris and open burning5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
5 September 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCOUNTY RD 46
4 September 2011Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFM 279
4 September 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service46 CURVE FIRE
4 September 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCOUNTY RD 46 FIRE
4 September 1995Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
29 September 1994Debris and open burning10 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Smith County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of New Harmony: 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Halite, Limestone, General, Gypsum-Anhydrite. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Mount Sylvan Salt DomeHalite, Limestone, General, Gypsum-AnhydriteOccurrence1927

Every working recorded in Smith County

Storms near this place

4 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names New Harmony in 4 storm reports between 2000 and 2023: 2 hail, 2 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 2023HailNew Harmony-Nickel size hail fell in the New Harmony community.
March 2022Flash FloodNew Harmony-FM 724 west of Tyler was closed due to flooding.
May 2021Flash FloodNew Harmony-A portion of FM 724 was closed due to flooding.
May 2000HailNew Harmony-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Smith 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
Mount Sylvan3.0 miles15
Carroll5.2 miles13
Hide-A-Way Lake5.3 miles15
Hideaway5.3 miles15
Wood Springs5.3 miles15
Swan5.4 miles15
Thedford6.1 miles15
Lindale7.6 miles13

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 Q22076542The 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 1378739. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.