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Harris Station, Alabama

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Athens census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35671. It stands on Pryor Branch. The Survey maps it on the Tanner quadrangle.

Harris Station within Limestone County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 22 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

31 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 31 fires within 5 miles of Harris Station between 1996 and 2020, burning about 232 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 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 burning11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Arson/incendiarism3
Recreation and ceremony3
Equipment and vehicle use3
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
7 September 2015Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreAlabama Forestry CommissionNOR-20150908-001
30 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190930-4
22 September 2016Debris and open burning1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20160922-11
15 September 1999Debris and open burning35 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
14 September 1998Arson/incendiarismunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
18 August 1999Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
17 August 1999Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
13 August 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Limestone 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 Station: 1 producer, 1 unknown. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Phosphorus-Phosphates. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Monsanto Phosphate Deposit No.43Phosphorus-PhosphatesUnknown
Plant 1 PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Limestone 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
Orrville0.7 miles22
Whiteside2.0 miles22
Decatur Junction2.2 miles22
Irvington2.5 miles22
Beulah Land2.6 miles15
Murphree Place2.8 miles22
Sweetwater3.6 miles22
Jones Crossroads4.4 miles15

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 Q122560647The 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 119814. 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.