Harmony, Washington

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1937 and the latest in 1998. It stands in the Mossyrock census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98585. It lies near Dunn Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Mossyrock quadrangle. It stands 718 feet above sea level.

Harmony within Lewis County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 16 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.

1937 USGS Eatonville quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
1953 USGS Hoquiam quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1957 USGS Hoquiam quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Morton quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1958 USGS Hoquiam quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1962 USGS Hoquiam quadrangle1:250000
1980 USGS Centralia quadrangle1:100000
1987 USGS Mossyrock quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1998 USGS Mossyrock quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

43 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 43 fires within 5 miles of Harmony between 1992 and 2020, burning about 189 acres in total. 2 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	23
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7
Arson/incendiarism	5
Recreation and ceremony	3
Natural	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Other causes	1
Equipment and vehicle use	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
7 September 1998	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
3 September 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	BURCHETTE
28 September 2009	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	CHRISTMAS TREE FIRE
27 September 2000	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
25 September 2006	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
21 September 1995	Other causes	30 acres	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
11 September 1992	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
10 September 2014	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	MOSSYROCK

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lewis County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 12 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 12 workings within 5 miles of Harmony: 11 past producers, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Diatomite. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
Coleman Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Tilton River	Diatomite	Occurrence
Harmony Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Huntting Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Moore-Davis Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Mossyrock Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unnamed Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unnamed Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unnamed Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unnamed Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Lewis 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
Mossyrock	2.0 miles	16
Bremer	3.9 miles	16
Ajlune	3.9 miles	16
Cinebar	4.1 miles	17
Winston	5.4 miles	12
Mayfield	5.7 miles	17
Silver Creek	6.1 miles	17
Swofford	6.2 miles	16

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.

Wikidata item Q105364887

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 1520553. 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.