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Harris, Michigan

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1932 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Harris Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49896. The Survey maps it on the Bark River quadrangle. It stands 781 feet above sea level.

Harris within Menominee County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 9 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

56 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 56 fires within 5 miles of Harris between 1992 and 2020, burning about 151 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
Debris and open burning32
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Recreation and ceremony3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Arson/incendiarism2
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Fireworks2
Smoking1

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
3 August 2001Debris and open burning3.4 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
22 July 2005Debris and open burning1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 July 2013Fireworksunder an acreMichigan AgencyBOTTLE ROCKET
7 May 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.4 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBELLY-FULL
26 May 1995Debris and open burning1.3 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
17 May 2010Debris and open burning1.0 acresMichigan AgencyBLANKET
14 May 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreMichigan AgencyB1 RD NS
13 May 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreMichigan AgencyDITCH

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Menominee County

Storms near this place

5 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Harris in 5 storm reports between 2003 and 2021: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 1 heavy rain, 1 lightning. 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
July 2017LightningHarris$500,000The Seventh Day Adventist Church near Wilson was struck by lightning and the subsequent fire destroyed the church.
May 2021Thunderstorm WindHarris$1,000A trained spotter reported a tree down on power lines in Gourley Township.
May 2017Heavy RainHarris-The observer near Bark River measured over two inches of rainfall over 24 hours.
September 2015HailHarris-A spotter near Bark River observed one inch diameter hail for a brief period.
August 2003Thunderstorm WindHarris-Several trees were blown down.

Every storm recorded in Menominee 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
Indiantown1.7 miles7
Houle2.7 miles7
Hannahville3.5 miles9
Eustis3.8 miles9
Wilson4.9 miles7
Perronville6.6 miles9
Whitney8.5 miles8
Gourley8.6 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.

Wikidata item Q136353044The 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 1617609. 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.