Harris, Oklahoma
10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1950 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Southeast McCurtain census division. It lies in ZIP code area 74740. The Survey maps it on the Haworth quadrangle. It stands 341 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 10 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1950 USGS Haworth quadrangle1:24000
- 1951 USGS Haworth quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1953 USGS Texarkana quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1956 USGS Texarkana quadrangle1:250000
- 1986 USGS Idabel quadrangle1:100000
- 1990 USGS Idabel quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
102 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 102 fires within 5 miles of Harris between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,456 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 37 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 |
|---|---|
| Arson/incendiarism | 37 |
| Debris and open burning | 31 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 11 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 9 |
| Natural | 6 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 5 |
| Fireworks | 3 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 2011 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Oklahoma Division of Forestry | 10544 |
| 8 September 2011 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Oklahoma Division of Forestry | 10541 |
| 5 September 2010 | Recreation and ceremony | 8.0 acres | Ouachita National Forest | FLAT FIRE |
| 29 September 2005 | Equipment and vehicle use | 10 acres | Oklahoma Division of Forestry | 10561 |
| 27 September 2016 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Oklahoma Division of Forestry | not named |
| 27 September 2012 | Arson/incendiarism | 3.0 acres | Ouachita National Forest | SWEETGUM |
| 25 September 2016 | Debris and open burning | 20 acres | Oklahoma Division of Forestry | not named |
| 19 September 2011 | Natural | under an acre | Oklahoma Division of Forestry | 10567 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
10 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Harris in 10 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 6 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 funnel cloud, 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2024 | Hail | Harris | - | Quarter size hail reported in the Harris community. |
| June 2023 | Hail | Harris | - | Hen egg size hail reported along Highway 259. |
| April 2021 | Hail | Harris | - | Golfball size hail fell in the Harris community. |
| March 2018 | Flash Flood | Harris | - | High water covered several roadways southeast of the Harris community. |
| August 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Harris | - | A tree was downed blocking Hwy. 259 near the Harris community. |
| October 2009 | Funnel Cloud | Harris | - | A funnel cloud was spotted south of Idabel, Oklahoma by amateur ham radio spotters. |
| April 1994 | Hail | Harris | - | Thunderstorms developed in southwest Oklahoma during the morning hours on the 25th and spread east and northeast during the day. The storms produced one tornado, hail up to golf ball-size and damaging winds. A tornado developed 0.5 miles west of Albion at 1758 CST and moved northeast approximately 1.2 miles before moving into extreme southeast Latimer County at 1803 CST. The tornado destroyed a barn, several outbuildings, blew a porch down, damaged a satellite dish, and damaged the roof of a house. Strong thunderstorm winds blew out the windshield of a school bus which was travelling west on Interstate 40 three miles east of Canute. The driver of the bus was injured by the flying glass. Strong thunderstorm winds destroyed a large barn five miles north of Perry, destroyed a recently completed barn and snapped off a power pole six miles north northeast of Perry and downed several trees near Broken Bow. Quarter size hail covered the ground in Cordell. |
| May 2003 | Hail | Harris | - | no account filed |
| April 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Harris | - | no account filed |
| April 1994 | Hail | Harris | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pleasant Hill | 3.7 miles | 10 | |
| Goodlake | 5.5 miles | 10 | |
| Kullituklo | 7.0 miles | 10 | |
| Haworth | 7.8 miles | 10 | |
| Tom | 8.3 miles | 10 | |
| Bokhoma | 9.2 miles | 10 | |
| Moon | 9.8 miles | 10 | |
| Shults | 10.0 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 Q27989185 | 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 1101443. 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.





