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Harris, Minnesota

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1950 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Harris City. It lies in ZIP code area 55032. The Survey maps it on the North Branch quadrangle. 1,111 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 906 feet above sea level.

Harris within Chisago 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 1,132 to 1,111 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
20101,132
20201,111-21 (-2%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 16 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

89 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 89 fires within 5 miles of Harris between 1992 and 2020, burning about 365 acres in total. None started naturally. 8 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 burning35
Missing data/not specified/undetermined20
Equipment and vehicle use16
Arson/incendiarism8
Recreation and ceremony7
Smoking1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
8 September 2012Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
30 September 2000Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
29 September 1999Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
25 September 1999Debris and open burning1.6 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
10 September 2012Recreation and ceremony6.0 acresMinnesota Valley National Wildlife RefugeHENRY
23 August 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
11 August 2000Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 July 2006Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Chisago County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Harris: 1 producer. All of them still produce. 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
E F Hals Sand & Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Chisago County

Storms near this place

10 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Harris in 10 storm reports between 1999 and 2020: 6 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 1 funnel cloud. 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 2007HailHarris$2,000,000Widespread hail damage to houses, barns, outbuildings, vehicles, and crops. Hail size was estimated. Some hail did not melt until the next morning.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindHarris$250,000Several trees were blown down in Harris, Minnesota.
July 2020Thunderstorm WindHarris$100,000A NWS Storm Survey determined that severe straight-line winds and occasional downburst winds, damaged hundreds of trees between Harris and Rush City along County Road 30. Some of the trees landed on vehicles, roofs and sheds. One machine shed had its roof blown off.
June 2016Thunderstorm WindHarris-A few trees were blown down near Harris, along Falcon Drive at 425th St.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindHarris-Trees were downed.
May 2004HailHarris-Golf ball sized hail was reported in the northern portion of Chisago County. The time was estimated.
June 2004Thunderstorm WindHarris-A handful of trees were downed. The time was estimated.
September 2004Thunderstorm WindHarris-Three trees were downed.
July 2000HailHarris-no account filed
July 1999Funnel CloudHarris-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Chisago 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
Stark4.6 miles12
North Branch5.2 miles16
Oakwood Court5.6 miles16
Rush City6.9 miles16
Sunrise6.9 miles17
Branch7.0 miles13
Rush Point8.5 miles12
Kost8.6 miles14

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 Q2231653The 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 644685. 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.