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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.

Harris within McCurtain County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 10 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

102 since 1992

Regional 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/incendiarism37
Debris and open burning31
Equipment and vehicle use11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Natural6
Recreation and ceremony5
Fireworks3

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 2011Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreOklahoma Division of Forestry10544
8 September 2011Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreOklahoma Division of Forestry10541
5 September 2010Recreation and ceremony8.0 acresOuachita National ForestFLAT FIRE
29 September 2005Equipment and vehicle use10 acresOklahoma Division of Forestry10561
27 September 2016Debris and open burning5.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
27 September 2012Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresOuachita National ForestSWEETGUM
25 September 2016Debris and open burning20 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
19 September 2011Naturalunder an acreOklahoma Division of Forestry10567

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in McCurtain County

Storms near this place

10 since 1994

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2024HailHarris-Quarter size hail reported in the Harris community.
June 2023HailHarris-Hen egg size hail reported along Highway 259.
April 2021HailHarris-Golfball size hail fell in the Harris community.
March 2018Flash FloodHarris-High water covered several roadways southeast of the Harris community.
August 2014Thunderstorm WindHarris-A tree was downed blocking Hwy. 259 near the Harris community.
October 2009Funnel CloudHarris-A funnel cloud was spotted south of Idabel, Oklahoma by amateur ham radio spotters.
April 1994HailHarris-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 2003HailHarris-no account filed
April 1994Thunderstorm WindHarris-no account filed
April 1994HailHarris-no account filed

Every storm recorded in McCurtain 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
Pleasant Hill3.7 miles10
Goodlake5.5 miles10
Kullituklo7.0 miles10
Haworth7.8 miles10
Tom8.3 miles10
Bokhoma9.2 miles10
Moon9.8 miles10
Shults10.0 miles11

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 Q27989185The 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.