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.
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 18 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1895 USGS Laramie quadrangle1:125000
- 1902 USGS Laramie quadrangle1:125000
- 1905 USGS Laramie quadrangle1:125000
- 1906 USGS Laramie quadrangle1:125000
- 1908 USGS Laramie quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
- 1954 USGS Cheyenne quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Cheyenne quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1963 USGS Caldwell Lake quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1981 USGS Laramie quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
20 since 1992Regional 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/undetermined | 6 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 5 |
| Natural | 3 |
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 2 |
| Fireworks | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2015 | Fireworks | 12 acres | Wyoming State Forestry | not named |
| 5 September 2009 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 185 acres | Wyoming State Forestry | not named |
| 1 August 2005 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Wyoming State Forestry | not named |
| 26 July 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Crook County | HAY FIRE |
| 12 July 2014 | Natural | under an acre | Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National Grassland | HANSEN CREEK |
| 7 June 2015 | Natural | under an acre | Wyoming State Forestry | not named |
| 2 April 2006 | Recreation and ceremony | 1,500 acres | Wyoming State Forestry | not named |
| 30 March 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 400 acres | Wyoming State Forestry | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
1 since 2020Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Harmony | - | Mesonet station FW4499 Laramie measured the reported wind speed. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Woods Landing | 9.0 miles | 16 | |
| New Jelm | 9.9 miles | 16 | |
| Millbrook | 10.7 miles | 23 | |
| Jelm | 11.2 miles | 16 | |
| Hatton | 11.2 miles | 23 | |
| Red Buttes | 14.3 miles | 18 | |
| Albany | 14.3 miles | 14 | |
| Deerwood | 14.9 miles | 14 |
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 Harmony | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q5659419 | 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 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.








