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Harney -- U.S. County in Oregon
Population (2000): 7609
Housing Units (2000): 3533
Land area (2000): 10134.329332 sq. miles (26247.791358 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 92.158160 sq. miles (238.688528 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 10226.487492 sq. miles (26486.479886 sq. km)
Located within: Oregon (OR), FIPS 41
Location: 43.461427 N, 119.039719 W
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Harney

Harney may refer to:

Harney (surname)

Harney is a surname of Irish origin. Notable people with the surname include:

  • Ben Harney (1872–1938), American songwriter, entertainer, and pioneer of ragtime music
  • Ben Harney (actor), American actor and dancer, active from 1972 to 1985
  • Corbin Harney (1920–2007), elder and spiritual leader of the Newe people, USA
  • Corinna Harney (born 1972), American model and actress
  • Edward Harney (1865–1929), Irish lawyer who sat in both the Australian Senate and the British House of Commons
  • Elise Harney (1925–1989), pitcher in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League
  • George Edward Harney (1840–1924), American architect
  • George Julian Harney (1817–1897), English political activist, journalist, and Chartist leader
  • John Hopkins Harney (1806–1868), Kentucky legislator
  • John Milton Harney (1789–1825), American physician and poet, brother of William S. Harney
  • John Paul Harney (aka Jean-Paul Harney) (born 1931), professor and former Canadian politician
  • Mary Harney (born 1953), Irish politician
  • Paul Harney (born 1929), American professional golfer
  • Susan Harney (born 1946), American actress
  • William Edward Harney (1895–1962), Australian writer
  • William S. Harney (1800–1889), cavalry officer in the U.S. Army

Usage examples of "harney".

The sky darkened and the view grew more unbelievable -- distant Nanda Devi in the southwest, Helgafell in the even more distant southeast, and Harney Peak far beyond the Shivling all coming into sight above the curve of the planet.

All Harney Sentinel reporters were trained in the paperwork of classified advertising, just in case the moment arose.

Minutes after they crossed the county line into Harney, a highway-patrol car appeared in the rearview mirror and practically glued itself to the Chrysler's bumper.

Harney had taken leave of her at Creston River, charging the boy to drive her home.

I pulled away more swiftly, but still with the greatest caution, until after half-an-hour's painful effort I had gotten fully one hundred and fifty yards away from the Hospital fence, and found Harney crouched on a cypress knee, close to the water's edge, watching for me.

The woods warn't thick, so I looked over my shoulder to dodge the bullet, and twice I seen Harney cover Buck with his gun.

Sumeru -- the center of the universe -- and Harney Peak, also the center of the universe, oddly enough -- both some six hundred klicks southeast of the four San Francisco Peaks where the Hopi-Eskimo culture there ekes out a living on the cold ridges and fern clefts, also certain that their peaks bound the center of the universe.

She remembered other girls whom she had heard planning to extract presents from their fellows, and was seized with a sudden dread lest Harney should have imagined that she had leaned over the pretty things in the glass case in the hope of having one given to her.

That, added to the considerable weight of the two men, the tackle, the gas tank, the lunchboxes, the anchor, and the bait (several pounds of frozen Harney County shiners, Queenie's favorite) was almost too much for the tired little six-horse Mercury to push.

One of the first results of the Old Home Week agitation had, in fact, been the reappearance of Lucius Harney in the village street.

Nearly all the citizenry of Harney had occasionally come across Skink and his fresh roadkills, and the general assumption was that he ate the dead critters, though no one could say for a fact.

Constable John Harney brought down Hugo Rune with a spectacular rugby tackle.

I judged that that piece of paper meant that Miss Sophia was to meet Harney somewheres at half-past two and run off.