Three grounds, one surname: the Harris names disentangled

THE NAMING RECORD · AS OF NOVEMBER 2026

Three different grounds on this township answer to the name Harris, and the record is clearer once they are separated: Harris Township Park at Brummitt Road (10650 Brummitt Road) is the township's elder park, thirty acres of fields, habitat and trail. Harris Township Park at Elm Road (51520 Elm Road) is the township's younger park, the trustee's 2015 conception by the library and fire station. Harris Park, at 52150 Currant Road at the township's northern edge, is neither: it is the name the Harris Baseball Softball league and its visitors give the league's multi-field complex — the ground's playing course belongs to the Sports leg, which carries the league whole — and it stands in no township list of parks; the trustee's two, in his own words, are the Brummitt and Elm Road grounds. The similarity is the township's own name working three ways at once: two parks the township built and named for itself with a road to tell them apart, and a ball ground that took the township's name from the league that plays on it. Whose land the Currant Road complex stands on does not appear in the record reached; it is entered in the closing roll as a named gap, with the county parcel record for 52150 Currant Road named as its settler.

Sources:

1. The township's and trustee's records as cited in the Brummitt and Elm Road articles above — the two parks, their addresses, and the trustee's "two parks" statement.
2. The Sports leg of this build — Harris Baseball/Softball's complex at 52150 Currant Road and the "Harris Park" name in the league's and its visitors' usage; the league's own postings, October–November 2026 (field work at "Harris Park").