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Harrison, Georgia

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1957 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Harrison census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31035. It stands on Griffith Branch. The Survey maps it on the Harrison quadrangle. 339 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 410 feet above sea level.

Harrison within Washington County

Population over time

4 figures

Harrison fell from 575 to 339 between 1890 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
1890575
2000509
2010489-20 (-4%)
2020339-150 (-31%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 7 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.

Photographs

1 photograph,

Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.

Harrison House, Georgia Highway 15 vicinity, Warthen, Washington County, GA
Harrison House, Georgia Highway 15 vicinity, Warthen, Washington County, GA
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress

Fires near this place

321 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 321 fires within 5 miles of Harrison between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,359 acres in total. 27 started naturally. 42 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 burning164
Arson/incendiarism42
Missing data/not specified/undetermined31
Natural27
Equipment and vehicle use25
Smoking16
Recreation and ceremony9
Misuse of fire by a minor7

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 1999Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 1999Arson/incendiarism2.2 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 1999Smokingunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 1999Debris and open burning2.1 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 1997Natural1.4 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 2009Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.2 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2008Debris and open burning1.0 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Washington County

Storms near this place

11 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Harrison in 11 storm reports between 1994 and 2023: 6 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 1 lightning, 1 flood. 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
April 2009Thunderstorm WindHarrison$30,000The Washington County Emergency Management Director reported that more than 50 hardwood and pine trees were down along a sporadic path from just west-southwest of Harrison at the intersection of Adams Circle and Georgia Highway 15 eastward to Red Hill Drive just west of Wrightsville-Riddleville Road, east-southeast of Harrison. Five large pine trees were down on Adams Circle, one causing considerable damage to a barn. On South Railroad Avenue, some minor structural damage was noted, also from downed trees. From 40-50 trees were down along Red Hill Drive. It was concluded that because nearly all of the trees were blown down in one direction that this was caused by a downburst or straight-line winds and not a tornado.
June 2015Thunderstorm WindHarrison$10,000The Washington County 911 Center reported several trees down along Wommack and Brantley Roads west of Harrison.
March 2002Thunderstorm WindHarrison$3,000An amateur radio operator reported that a few trees and a couple of power lines were down near the intersection of Georgia Highway 231 and News Bridge Road.
August 2007Thunderstorm WindHarrison$2,000The Washington County 911 Center reported that several trees were down in the south central part of the county near the Johnson county line, including along Irwin, New Tennille, and Thompson Roads.
August 2023Thunderstorm WindHarrison$1,000Trees were downed near the intersection of Wrightsville Riddleville Rd and News Bridge Rd.
March 2009FloodHarrison$500Flooding was observed along the Oconee River at Oconee for several days. The river gage along the Washington/Wilkinson county line near the city of Oconee reached flood stage at 703 pm EST on March 2nd and remained above flood stage until 355 pm EST on March 7th. The river crested at 21.3 feet on March 4th at 400 am EST. Damage was confined to minor debris removal.
August 2007LightningHarrison$500The Washington County 911 Center reported that lightning started a brush fire along Montgmery Road in the southwest part of the county.
July 2002Thunderstorm WindHarrison$500The Harrison Fire Department/Rescue Squad reported that trees were blown down on Georgia Highway 231.
July 1994HailHarrison$50no account filed
June 2007HailHarrison-The public reported that quarter-sized hail fell for several minutes in the Harrison area.
May 1999HailHarrison-Washington county 911 reported quarter size hail.

Every storm recorded in Washington 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
Peacocks Crossing3.5 miles8
Pringle5.1 miles7
Riddleville6.4 miles8
Irwins Crossroads6.9 miles8
Sun Hill8.6 miles8
Tennille8.8 miles9
Hazard9.1 miles7
Tanner10.3 miles8

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 HarrisonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2077303The 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 331920. 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.

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.