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Harris, Kansas

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Reeder Township. It lies in ZIP code area 66032. It stands on Kenoma Creek. The Survey maps it on the Harris quadrangle. 47 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 994 feet above sea level.

Harris within Anderson County

On record in Harris

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Harris fell from 51 to 47 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
201051
202047-4 (-8%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 17 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

13 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Harris between 2015 and 2020, burning about 106 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
Debris and open burning8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5

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
4 August 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresAnderson County1755026
11 April 2018Debris and open burning8.0 acresKansas Forest Service1858015
23 March 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresKansas Forest Service1555018
22 March 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined60 acresKansas Forest Service1555017
20 March 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreAnderson County1755012
18 March 2017Debris and open burning8.0 acresAnderson County1752045
18 March 2017Debris and open burning1.0 acresAnderson County1755011
15 March 2018Debris and open burning4.0 acresKansas Forest Service1852056

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Anderson County

Storms near this place

29 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Harris in 29 storm reports between 1996 and 2022: 17 hail, 9 thunderstorm wind, 3 flash flood. 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
April 2022Thunderstorm WindHarris-Wind gust of 60 mph reported.
June 2021Flash FloodHarris-Many roads closed, flood prone areas experiencing high water.
July 2020HailHarris-Report of up to 3.25 inch hail.
May 2018Thunderstorm WindHarris-Estimated wind gust.
July 2018Thunderstorm WindHarris-Tree and building damage was reported across town. The size and extent of the damage was unknown.
August 2016Thunderstorm WindHarris-Winds estimated to be 80-90 mph. Multiple power lines down. Several tree branches as large as 8 inches in diameter were snapped and shingles were blown off of a home within the area of K-31 and 2300 Road. Two outbuildings were destroyed about one mile east of the same intersection. The buildings were described as old and not very sturdy.
August 2016Thunderstorm WindHarris-A large barn sustained damage to its overhead doors and some roof panels were removed.
September 2010Flash FloodHarris-Highway 31 near Harris was flooded with 8 to 9 inches of running water. Also several county roads flooded near Richmond.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindHarris-An emergency manager reported an estimated 60 mph wind gust.
June 2010Flash FloodHarris-Running water was reported across Highway 31 near Harris.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindHarris-Small trees are blown down, with estimated 60 to 65 mph wind gust. Time is estimated.
January 2008Thunderstorm WindHarris-Thunderstorm winds sheared off the top quarter to third of trees measuring ten to twelve inches in diameter. Two grain bins were blown over, an outbuilding was toppled and a large tree was blown onto a house.
April 2019HailHarris-no account filed
March 2014HailHarris-no account filed
May 2013HailHarris-no account filed
May 2008HailHarris-no account filed
May 2008HailHarris-no account filed
July 2008HailHarris-no account filed
August 2008HailHarris-no account filed
September 2005HailHarris-no account filed
September 2005HailHarris-no account filed
April 2003HailHarris-no account filed
April 2003HailHarris-no account filed
April 2002HailHarris-no account filed
April 2002HailHarris-no account filed
May 1998HailHarris-no account filed
August 1998Thunderstorm WindHarris-no account filed
June 1996HailHarris-no account filed
April 1996HailHarris-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Anderson 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
Central4.3 miles17
Glenlock5.0 miles17
Mont Ida8.0 miles16
Westphalia9.9 miles16
Garnett10.6 miles17
Scipio12.1 miles17
Welda12.8 miles16
Greeley16.7 miles17

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 Q2219588The 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 477484. 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.

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.