Harrys, Arkansas

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1941 and the latest in 1990. It stands in White River Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72040. It stands on Biene Creek. The Survey maps it on the Des Arc East quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Harrys within Prairie County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 14 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.

1941 USGS De Valls Bluff quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1948 USGS Helena quadrangle1:250000
1950 USGS Helena quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1955 USGS Helena quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1957 USGS De Valls Bluff quadrangle1:62500
1959 USGS Helena quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Helena quadrangle1:250000
1968 USGS Des Arc East quadrangle1:24000
1971 USGS De Valls Bluff quadrangle1:62500
1986 USGS Brinkley quadrangle1:100000
1990 USGS Brinkley quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

4 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Harrys (historical) between 2005 and 2015, burning about 179 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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/incendiarism	2
Debris and open burning	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
15 June 2005	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
26 May 2005	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
14 February 2015	Debris and open burning	117 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
20 November 2014	Equipment and vehicle use	59 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	PRA419837

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Prairie 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
Harrys	1.1 miles	16
Des Arc	1.5 miles	14
Erwin	2.7 miles	14
Letchworth	3.0 miles	14
Fourmile Corner	4.1 miles	16
Childers	4.5 miles	16
Gospoda	4.6 miles	14
Sand Hill	4.8 miles	13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 77328. 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.