Harriet is an

unincorporated community An unincorporated area is a region that is not governed by a local municipal corporation. Widespread unincorporated communities and areas are a distinguishing feature of the United States and Canada. Most other countries of the world either have ...

in Searcy County,

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, United States. Harriet is located at the junction of Arkansas highways 14 and 27, northeast of

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. Harriet has a

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with ZIP code 72639. The Basingers are a prominent family in the community, and are distantly related to

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-winning actress

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Education

Harriet is within the

Searcy County School District Searcy County School District No. 17 (SCSD), formerly Marshall School District #17 (MSD), is a public school district headquartered in Marshall, Arkansas. The school district encompasses of land in Searcy, Van Buren and Marion counties.

.SCHOOL DISTRICT REFERENCE MAP (2010 CENSUS): Searcy County, AR
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. Retrieved on June 17, 2018. - See Harriet on the map, compare to the school district map. Harriet had been in what was the Marshall School District. On July 1, 2004, the Marshall School District and the

Leslie School District Leslie School District No. 23 or Leslie Public Schools was a school district headquartered in Leslie, Arkansas. It operated the Leslie School a.k.a. the Leslie Public School, which had all grades in a single building; high school students occupied ...

consolidated to form the Searcy County School District,ConsolidationAnnex_from_1983.xls
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Arkansas Department of Education Arkansas ( ) is a landlocked state in the South Central United States. It is bordered by Missouri to the north, Tennessee and Mississippi to the east, Louisiana to the south, and Texas and Oklahoma to the west. Its name is from the Osa ...

. Retrieved on October 13, 2017. with the Marshall district annexing Leslie.

References

Unincorporated communities in Searcy County, Arkansas Unincorporated communities in Arkansas {{SearcyCountyAR-geo-stub