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Harris, Iowa

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Fairview Township. It lies in ZIP code area 51345. The Survey maps it on the Harris quadrangle. 151 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,552 feet above sea level.

Harris within Osceola County

Population over time

2 figures

Harris fell from 170 to 151 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
2010170
2020151-19 (-11%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 7 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

1 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Harris in 2010, burning about 15 acres in total. None started naturally. None was 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
28 April 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresIowa Department of Natural ResourcesVINE AND 180TH ST., IOWA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Osceola County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Harris: 5 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: 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
Lamp PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Loaf PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Maudlin Const CoSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Osceola County

Storms near this place

23 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Harris in 23 storm reports between 1994 and 2026: 13 hail, 7 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 1 heavy rain. 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
June 2001HailHarris$100,000no account filed
June 2023Thunderstorm WindHarris$25,000Large trees and a grain bin were damaged by thunderstorm winds. Property and crop damage costs are rough estimates.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindHarris$10,000Thunderstorm winds blew a 3 stall garage off its foundation.
June 1994Tornado (F0)Harris$5,000no account filed
June 1994HailHarris$5,000no account filed
June 2025Thunderstorm WindHarris-Thunderstorms winds produced a considerable amount of blowing dust with severely reduced visibility.
July 2024Funnel CloudHarris-A couple of photos of a weak funnel cloud were provided on social media.
June 2015Thunderstorm WindHarris-Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, including branches blown down.
July 2011Heavy RainHarris-Rainfall of 4.00 inches was measured.
August 2006Thunderstorm WindHarris-Strong thunderstorm winds were accompanied by very heavy rain, with visibility reduced to 100 feet.
April 2004HailHarris-Large hail was accompanied by winds gusting to 50 mph.
April 2026HailHarris-no account filed
July 2024HailHarris-no account filed
April 2022HailHarris-no account filed
June 2014HailHarris-no account filed
June 2006HailHarris-no account filed
May 2004HailHarris-no account filed
August 2003HailHarris-no account filed
August 2002Thunderstorm WindHarris-no account filed
July 2002HailHarris-no account filed
June 2001Thunderstorm WindHarris-no account filed
June 2001HailHarris-no account filed
June 1996HailHarris-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Osceola 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
Ocheyedan5.7 miles7
May City8.8 miles7
Allendorf11.3 miles7
Melvin14.3 miles7
Cloverdale15.0 miles7
Sibley17.1 miles7
Ashton21.1 miles7

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.

Wikipedia article on HarrisAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1932353The 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 457280. 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.