BlockHarrison, Illinois
18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1910 and the latest in 1987. It stands in Somerset Township. It lies in ZIP code area 62966. The Survey maps it on the Murphysboro quadrangle. 895 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 407 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresHarrison fell from 970 to 895 between 2010 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 970 | |
| 2020 | 895 | -75 (-8%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
11 surveys from 18 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.
- 1910 USGS Murphysboro quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1938 USGS Murphysboro quadrangle1:62500
- 1949 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1950 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000
- 1954 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1961 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1964 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1968 USGS Murphysboro quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1984 USGS Carbondale quadrangle1:100000
- 1986 USGS Carbondale quadrangle1:100000
- 1987 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000
Fires near this place
3 since 2010Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Harrison between 2010 and 2020, burning about 1 acre in total. None started naturally. None was 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 | 2 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 July 2010 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Shawnee National Forest | FIVE POINTS |
| 16 April 2020 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Shawnee National Forest | HWY 149 |
| 12 November 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | LITTLE LAKE WF |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
6 since 2018Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Harrison in 6 storm reports between 2018 and 2025: 4 flood, 1 flash flood, 1 hail. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2024 | Flash Flood | Harrison | $30,000 | A water rescue occurred at the Union Pacific Railroad underpass on Business Hwy 13 with water halfway up the door. Another vehicle was stalled in high water at 14th and Maple Streets in Murphysboro. Water came into the door of a residence in the 1200 block of N 14th St. Radar estimated 3-hr rainfall totals were 2-3.5 inches most of which fell between 215-330CST. |
| March 2020 | Flood | Harrison | $5,000 | Moderate flooding occurred on the Big Muddy River. Water approached some neighborhoods in Murphysboro. Low-lying fields and woods near the river were inundated. The flooding continued into April. |
| March 2018 | Flood | Harrison | $5,000 | Moderate flooding continued on the Big Muddy River from late February. Water encroached on a few residential streets in the southeast part of Murphysboro. A city park was partially inundated. Low-lying agricultural land outside the city was flooded. At the Murphysboro river gage, the river crested at 30.58 feet just after midnight on the 1st. Flood stage there is 22 feet. |
| May 2025 | Hail | Harrison | - | Golf ball size hail was estimated northwest of Murphysboro on Cedar Rd. |
| March 2023 | Flood | Harrison | - | Moderate flooding occurred on the Big Muddy River. At the Murphysboro river gage, the river crested at 28.91 feet on the morning of the 29th. Flood stage is 22 feet. Flooding of yards and other unoccupied property occurred in neighborhoods on 3rd, Division, and Plum Streets. The river remained above flood stage into early April. |
| February 2018 | Flood | Harrison | - | Moderate flooding developed along the Big Muddy River. Water encroached on a few residential streets in the southeast part of Murphysboro. A city park was partially inundated. Low-lying agricultural land outside the city was flooded. The river continued rising into March. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Grange Hall | 1.7 miles | 18 | |
| Murphysboro | 2.2 miles | 18 | |
| Texas Junction | 2.6 miles | 18 | |
| Mount Carbon | 3.2 miles | 18 | |
| Oraville | 5.3 miles | 19 | |
| De Soto | 6.0 miles | 18 | |
| Ward | 6.5 miles | 18 | |
| Grimsby | 6.8 miles | 19 |
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 Q14635143 | 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 409852. 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.