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Harness, Arkansas

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1992. It stands in District 3. It lies in ZIP code area 72645. It stands on Flag Branch. The Survey maps it on the Oxley quadrangle.

Harness within Stone County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 15 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

108 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 108 fires within 5 miles of Harness between 1998 and 2020, burning about 5,263 acres in total. None started naturally. 52 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
Arson/incendiarism52
Missing data/not specified/undetermined28
Debris and open burning23
Equipment and vehicle use3
Smoking1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
8 September 2011Debris and open burning10 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
25 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined9.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
22 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
17 August 2000Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
16 August 2007Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
15 August 2007Arson/incendiarism11 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
13 August 2012Arson/incendiarism13 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
10 August 2007Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Stone 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 Harness: 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
UnkStonePast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Stone County

Storms near this place

1 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Harness in 1 storm report in 2012: 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
March 2012Thunderstorm WindHarness$1,000A tree was blown down onto Angora Mountain Rd.

Every storm recorded in Stone 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
Flag1.8 miles15
Alco3.7 miles15
Mozart4.7 miles15
Timbo5.1 miles15
Onia6.7 miles15
Fox6.7 miles15
Pekin (historical)7.6 miles17
Arlberg7.6 miles16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 57049. 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.

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.