Harris, Alabama

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Stevenson census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35772. It lies near Huddleston Cove. The Survey maps it on the Doran Cove quadrangle.

Harris within Jackson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 23 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.

1886 USGS Stevenson quadrangle1:125000
1892 USGS Stevenson quadrangle1:125000
1895 USGS Stevenson quadrangle1:125000, 6 printings
1936 USGS Doran Cove quadrangle1:24000
1950 USGS Doran Cove quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1955 USGS Rome quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Rome quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1961 USGS Rome quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Rome quadrangle1:250000
1967 USGS Doran Cove quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1981 USGS Chickamauga quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

28 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 28 fires within 5 miles of Harris between 1994 and 2019, burning about 1,205 acres in total. None started naturally. 6 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	12
Arson/incendiarism	6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5
Recreation and ceremony	2
Smoking	2
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
8 September 1998	Equipment and vehicle use	5.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
7 September 1998	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
23 September 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20160923-10
18 September 1998	Smoking	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
16 September 1998	Smoking	2.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
29 August 2011	Debris and open burning	15 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	853 CR 285, AL
13 August 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	20 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
15 June 1998	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jackson County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Harris: 1 past producer, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Manganese. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Pace Prospect	Iron, Manganese	Prospect
	Childers Mine	Iron	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Jackson 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
Card Switch	1.0 miles	22
Eureka	1.6 miles	22
Stevenson	1.7 miles	22
Rash	2.1 miles	21
Haynes Crossing	2.3 miles	23
New Town	2.4 miles	22
Edgefield	2.9 miles	23
Pinder Hill	3.0 miles	22

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 156454. 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.