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.
Population over time
4 figuresHarrison 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1890 | 575 | |
| 2000 | 509 | |
| 2010 | 489 | -20 (-4%) |
| 2020 | 339 | -150 (-31%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 7 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1957 USGS Macon quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Macon quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Macon quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1973 USGS Harrison quadrangle1:24000
- 1981 USGS Dublin quadrangle1:100000
- 1988 USGS Macon quadrangle1:250000
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.
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress
Fires near this place
321 since 1992Regional 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 burning | 164 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 42 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 31 |
| Natural | 27 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 25 |
| Smoking | 16 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 9 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 7 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 September 1999 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 7 September 1999 | Arson/incendiarism | 2.2 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 6 September 1999 | Smoking | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 6 September 1999 | Debris and open burning | 2.1 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 6 September 1997 | Natural | 1.4 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 5 September 2009 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 5 September 1999 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 6.2 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 30 September 2008 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
11 since 1994Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Harrison | $30,000 | The 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 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Harrison | $10,000 | The Washington County 911 Center reported several trees down along Wommack and Brantley Roads west of Harrison. |
| March 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Harrison | $3,000 | An 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 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Harrison | $2,000 | The 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 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Harrison | $1,000 | Trees were downed near the intersection of Wrightsville Riddleville Rd and News Bridge Rd. |
| March 2009 | Flood | Harrison | $500 | Flooding 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 2007 | Lightning | Harrison | $500 | The Washington County 911 Center reported that lightning started a brush fire along Montgmery Road in the southwest part of the county. |
| July 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Harrison | $500 | The Harrison Fire Department/Rescue Squad reported that trees were blown down on Georgia Highway 231. |
| July 1994 | Hail | Harrison | $50 | no account filed |
| June 2007 | Hail | Harrison | - | The public reported that quarter-sized hail fell for several minutes in the Harrison area. |
| May 1999 | Hail | Harrison | - | Washington county 911 reported quarter size hail. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Peacocks Crossing | 3.5 miles | 8 | |
| Pringle | 5.1 miles | 7 | |
| Riddleville | 6.4 miles | 8 | |
| Irwins Crossroads | 6.9 miles | 8 | |
| Sun Hill | 8.6 miles | 8 | |
| Tennille | 8.8 miles | 9 | |
| Hazard | 9.1 miles | 7 | |
| Tanner | 10.3 miles | 8 |
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 Harrison | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2077303 | The 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.





