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Harmony, Wyoming

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1895 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the South Albany census division. It lies in ZIP code area 82070. The Survey maps it on the Caldwell Lake quadrangle.

Harmony within Albany County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 18 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

20 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 20 fires within 5 miles of Harmony between 1992 and 2020, burning about 5,526 acres in total. 3 started naturally. None was 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Recreation and ceremony5
Natural3
Debris and open burning2
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Fireworks1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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 2015Fireworks12 acresWyoming State Forestrynot named
5 September 2009Railroad operations and maintenance185 acresWyoming State Forestrynot named
1 August 2005Natural1.0 acresWyoming State Forestrynot named
26 July 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreCrook CountyHAY FIRE
12 July 2014Naturalunder an acreMedicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National GrasslandHANSEN CREEK
7 June 2015Naturalunder an acreWyoming State Forestrynot named
2 April 2006Recreation and ceremony1,500 acresWyoming State Forestrynot named
30 March 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined400 acresWyoming State Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Albany County

Storms near this place

1 since 2020

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Harmony in 1 storm report in 2020: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
July 2020Thunderstorm WindHarmony-Mesonet station FW4499 Laramie measured the reported wind speed.

Every storm recorded in Albany 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
Woods Landing9.0 miles16
New Jelm9.9 miles16
Millbrook10.7 miles23
Jelm11.2 miles16
Hatton11.2 miles23
Red Buttes14.3 miles18
Albany14.3 miles14
Deerwood14.9 miles14

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 HarmonyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5659419The 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 1589316. 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.