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Harris, New York

25 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1909 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Thompson town. It lies in ZIP code area 12742. It stands on Spring Brook. The Survey maps it on the Monticello quadrangle. It stands 1,181 feet above sea level.

Harris within Sullivan County

Then and now

1909 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 77 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Harris, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Harris, surveyed 1909

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 25 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

211 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 211 fires within 5 miles of Harris between 2001 and 2020, burning about 172 acres in total. 15 started naturally. 12 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
Smoking80
Missing data/not specified/undetermined56
Debris and open burning18
Natural15
Arson/incendiarism12
Power generation/transmission/distribution11
Equipment and vehicle use7
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Other causes5
Recreation and ceremony2

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
6 September 2007Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
26 September 2015Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
26 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
24 September 2016Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
23 September 2010Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
21 September 2007Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
17 September 2012Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sullivan County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Harris: 4 producers, 3 past producers. 4 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
Mongaup Valley PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Mongaup Valley Pit and PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Monticello Black Top PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Simenitsky Brothers PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Simenitsky Brothers Pit and PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
William Cooper PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
William Cooper Pit and PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary

Every working recorded in Sullivan County

Storms near this place

5 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Harris in 5 storm reports between 2008 and 2021: 2 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 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
June 2018Thunderstorm WindHarris$10,000Thunderstorm winds knocked down trees near Route 17 and Bushville Road.
September 2021Flash FloodHarris$5,000A swiftwater rescue was needed for a man stuck on the roof of his submerged car on Big Woods Road near the Harris Road intersection and the confluence of Spring Brook and the East Mongaup river.
August 2009Thunderstorm WindHarris$5,000Numerous trees were blown down.
June 2009HailHarris-no account filed
June 2008HailHarris-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Sullivan 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
Bushville1.0 miles25
Hurleyville3.1 miles25
Maplewood3.2 miles25
Coopers Corners3.2 miles23
Swan Lake3.7 miles22
Kiamesha Lake4.1 miles25
Ferndale4.2 miles22
Mongaup Valley4.4 miles23

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 Q9002136The 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 952257. 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.