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Welcome to Harris Station ...

Harris Station is located in Limestone County<1>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of Harris Station, you might consider that their post office opened in 1868.

A typical abbreviation for Harris Station: Harris Sta. (in Canada, 'Stn.' is the more common abbreviation.)

Harris Station is 560 feet [171 m] above sea level.<2>.

Time Zone: Harris Station lies in the Central Time Zone (CST/CDT) and observes daylight saving time

Area Codes for Harris Station: 256 & 938<3>

Communities Also Named Harris Station ...

Using our Gazetteer, we found another community named Harris Station - it's located in Ohio.

For more information, see our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Harris Station.

Communities near Harris Station ...

We have created a list of 10 communities that are near Harris Station.

To Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

We have a couple of sections for those tracing their genealogy.

We created a list of cemeteries that are in the area around Harris Station. Our list includes the location of those cemeteries and we provide an overhead view. See our Cemetery List for Harris Station.

Using the information from an 1895 Atlas, we've created a list of communities that were in the area of Harris Station. Our list includes information such as whether the 1895 community had a post office or railroad service. See our List of 1890's Communities around Harris Station.

We also have a detailed list of newspapers that have been published in the area around Harris Station. See our Newspapers Page for Harris Station.

TripAdvisor Tourism Pages for Harris Station ...

Looking for more information about Harris Station? A wonderful source is the TripAdvisor website. We always start with the TripAdvisor Tourism page, where you can read an overview with links that will help you find lodging, restaurants and attractions.

While we are unaware of a Tourism page that is specific to Harris Station, there are neighboring communities that do have Tourism pages. A map of those communities can be found with our TripAdvisor Page for Harris Station.

Adding Harris Station to Our Gazetteer ...

We originally found mention of Harris Station in both the FIPS-55 and the GNIS. For more information, see the FIPS and GNIS Codes sections on our Miscellaneous Page.

From our notes, the earliest published mention we've found (so far) for Harris Station was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<5>

From that list, the Harris Station post office opened in 1868. The Harris Station post office closed in 1880.

For more details, see References and Mentions for Harris Station.

Footnotes ...

<1>If you're interested in how the shape of Alabama's counties, including Limestone, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
<2>The elevation is an estimate for the area around Harris Station - it will be higher in some places and lower in others.
<3>When there's a risk of an area code running out of phone numbers, an 'Overlay Area Code' is created that has the same geographic boundaries as the existing area code. In this case, the 256 code has been Overlayed with the 938 area code. New phone numbers in the Harris Station area will be assigned with one of these codes: 256 or 938. As a result, placing a call in the Harris Station area will require 10-digit dialing (where you enter both the area code and then the phone number).
<4>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<5>A copy of the Blevins & Helbock Post Office list with background information can be found at:

      https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/