Official Name: | Harpefoss |
Settlement Type: | Village |
Pushpin Map: | Innlandet#Norway |
Pushpin Label Position: | top |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location of the village |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | Norway |
Subdivision Name1: | Eastern Norway |
Subdivision Name2: | Innlandet |
Subdivision Type3: | District |
Subdivision Name3: | Gudbrandsdalen |
Subdivision Type4: | Municipality |
Subdivision Name4: | Sør-Fron Municipality |
Utc Offset1: | +01:00 |
Utc Offset1 Dst: | +02:00 |
Area Total Km2: | 0.52 |
Population As Of: | 2021 |
Population Total: | 333 |
Population Density Km2: | 640 |
Postal Code Type: | Post Code |
Postal Code: | 2647 Sør-Fron |
Coordinates: | 61.578°N 9.8612°W |
Elevation M: | 252 |
Elevation Footnotes: | [1] |
Harpefoss is a village in Sør-Fron Municipality in Innlandet county, Norway. The village is located in the Gudbrandsdal valley on the north shore of the Gudbrandsdalslågen river, about northwest of the village of Hundorp. The 0.52km2 village has a population (2021) of 333 and a population density of .[2] The Dovrebanen railway line runs through the village.
The municipal council in Sør-Fron began planning for a restructuring of the local schools in 2009. In December 2010, a decision was made which included one new kindergarten in Harpefoss. Both the deputy mayor and the chair of the living conditions committee (Norwegian Nynorsk; Nynorsk, Norwegian: levekårsutvalet), both from the Labour Party, said that the process had not been optimal in that all information that would be necessary for an informed decision had not been gathered.[3]
On the night before Christmas 2010 a fire at a cattle barn killed between 20 and 30 cows. Temperatures close to and the closeness of farmhouse made the job of saving the animals difficult for the fire brigade.[4]