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Harrah, Washington

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1937 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Toppenish-Wapato census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98933. The Survey maps it on the Harrah quadrangle. 585 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 833 feet above sea level.

Harrah within Yakima County

Population over time

2 figures

Harrah fell from 625 to 585 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
2010625
2020585-40 (-6%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 13 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

210 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 210 fires within 5 miles of Harrah between 1995 and 2019, burning about 1,393 acres in total. 2 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 burning83
Fireworks53
Missing data/not specified/undetermined38
Equipment and vehicle use13
Arson/incendiarism8
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Recreation and ceremony3
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Natural2
Other causes2
Railroad operations and maintenance1
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
7 September 2016Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresYakama AgencyBRANCH RD.
7 September 2015Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreYakama AgencyHARRAH DRAIN RD.
4 September 2015Debris and open burning2.0 acresYakama Agency501 SUNRAY RD.
27 September 2003Debris and open burning5.0 acresYakama AgencyN HARRAH
23 September 2003Debris and open burning7.0 acresYakama AgencyDEERING RD
20 September 2014Debris and open burningunder an acreYakama Agency14150
2 September 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreYakama Agency3250 PROGRESSIVE RD
15 September 2011Arson/incendiarism1.5 acresYakama AgencyADAMS VIEW # 3

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Yakima County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Harrah: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. 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
Ashue PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Harrah PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Yakima County

Storms near this place

1 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Harrah in 1 storm report in 2006: 1 hail. 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
August 2006HailHarrah-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Yakima 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
Farron1.2 miles13
Venner2.2 miles13
Brownstown3.3 miles13
Ashue4.5 miles14
Rupple4.6 miles13
Wapato7.2 miles14
Yethonat7.8 miles14
Parker7.9 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 HarrahAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1506783The 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 1512275. 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.