BlockHarrisville, Indiana
18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1916 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Wayne Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47390. It stands on Owl Creek. The Survey maps it on the Winchester quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 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.
- 1916 USGS Winchester quadrangle1:48000
- 1916 USGS Winchester quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1918 USGS Winchester quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1943 USGS Winchester quadrangle1:62500
- 1953 USGS Muncie quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
- 1956 USGS Muncie quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Winchester quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1986 USGS Piqua quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
In the county-history sources
43,559 words on this townshipThe county-history sources names this settlement in its chapter on Wayne Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.
Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.
Read the whole chapter on Wayne Township - it names this place 5 more 5 times.
Storms near this place
2 since 2022Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Harrisville in 2 storm reports between 2022 and 2026: 1 thunderstorm wind, 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 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Harrisville | $1,000 | Several small to medium tree limbs snapped by thunderstorm wind gusts across eastern Randolph county. |
| March 2026 | Hail | Harrisville | - | no account filed |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Haysville Corner | 3.0 miles | 19 | |
| South Salem | 3.2 miles | 19 | |
| Union City | 4.0 miles | 19 | |
| Saratoga | 4.1 miles | 18 | |
| Bartonia | 5.1 miles | 18 | |
| New Lisbon | 5.1 miles | 19 | |
| Winchester | 5.4 miles | 18 | |
| Rural | 7.0 miles | 19 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 435807. 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.
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.