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Harrison Lake, Indiana

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1942 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Harrison Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47201. It lies near Taylor Hill. The Survey maps it on the New Bellsville quadrangle.

Harrison Lake within Bartholomew County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 18 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.

Fires near this place

1 since 2016

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Harrison Lake in 2016, burning about 6 acres 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 burning1

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
16 November 2016Debris and open burning6.5 acresHoosier National ForestWEST BAKER HOLLOW

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bartholomew 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
Bethany2.5 miles18
Stony Lonesome2.5 miles18
Grandview Lake2.6 miles18
North Ogilville3.7 miles18
Ogilville4.0 miles18
Garden City4.6 miles14
Columbus5.4 miles14
Bethel Village5.5 miles14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2830263. 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.