Harris, Indiana

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1984. It stands in North Township. It lies in ZIP code area 46563. The Survey maps it on the La Paz quadrangle. It stands 837 feet above sea level.

Harris within Marshall County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 11 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.

1953 USGS Chicago quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
1957 USGS Chicago quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS La Paz quadrangle1:24000
1972 USGS La Paz quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1984 USGS Knox quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

In the county-history sources

12,504 words on this township

McDonald, Daniel - History Of Marshall County, Indiana 1836-1880 (Kingman Bros., 1881), published 1881 names this settlement in its chapter on North Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

Witernas, We, the undersigned citizens and petitioners, believing that so many tuumes are, and will continue to be, against the interest of citizens of said places, we, therefore, petition your Honorable Bourd to change the name of the above-named towns, and consolidate them into one name, namely, Argos, and thus, in duty bound, we will ever pray. John A, Rhodes, John Whitacre, M. E. Richards, J. G. Bryant, N. Siple. Thomas King, Joseph Rhodes, J. W. Harris, William Worthington, G, W. Gordon, Martin Bucher, John Tribby, N. E. Manville, J, A. Haig, Joseph Litsinger, Joseph Finney, W. Nichols and J. J. Hough,

Passage source: McDonald, Daniel - History Of Marshall County, Indiana 1836-1880 (Kingman Bros., 1881), published 1881.

Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.

Read the whole chapter on North Township.

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 producer, 1 past 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	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Hooker Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
	Marshall Co. Hwy. Dept.	Stone	Producer

Every working recorded in Marshall County

Storms near this place

2 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Harris in 2 storm reports in 2017: 2 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
July 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Harris	-	Dispatch reported a tree was blown down on Maple Road, near Road 4A.
July 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Harris	-	Local media shared a picture and damage details of tree limb damage in the area of County Road 3A.

Every storm recorded in Marshall 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
Linkville	0.9 miles	11
La Paz	3.1 miles	11
La Paz Junction	3.1 miles	11
Lake of the Woods	4.3 miles	13
Plymouth	4.9 miles	11
Teegarden	5.2 miles	10
Tyner	5.3 miles	10
Twin Lakes	8.1 miles	11

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 Harris	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5664694	The 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 435776. 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.

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.