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West Harrison, Indiana

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1915 and the latest in 1996. It stands in Harrison Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47060. It stands on Kolb Creek. The Survey maps it on the Harrison quadrangle. 325 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 518 feet above sea level.

West Harrison within Dearborn County

Population over time

2 figures

West Harrison grew from 289 to 325 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.

YearPeople Change
2010289
2020325+36 (+12%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 15 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.

What happened here

An account from the chapter on Harrison township. The inset identifies its exact source book and publication year.

From History of Dearborn County Indiana, published 1915 - Harrison Township

Fired On Own Comrades

An unfortunate loss of life occurred at the Hardintown school house that evening, causing the loss of five men killed, one mortally wounded and eighteen wounded more or less seriously. The account herewith is the re¬ port of W. H. H. Terrell, who at that time was the adjutant-general of Indiana :

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In the county-history sources

3,069 words on this township

History of Dearborn County Indiana, published 1915 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Harrison Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Harrison Township - 3,069 words.

Fires near this place

1 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of West Harrison in 2004, 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
Recreation and ceremony1

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
28 February 2004Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Dearborn County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 15 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 15 workings within 5 miles of West Harrison: 7 producers, 5 past producers, 3 plants. 10 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Ashcraft Sand and Gravel, Inc.Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Bunnell Gravel Pit #2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Dry Fork PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionPlant
Harrison PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Harrison PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPlant
Harrison PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Harrison PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Harrison PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Harrison Pit & MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionPlant
Harrison-#712Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Dearborn 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
Braysville3.2 miles15
Bright3.5 miles20
Logan4.0 miles17
Dover6.9 miles17
Hidden Valley6.9 miles20
Saint Leon7.6 miles13
Guilford8.0 miles17
Yorkville8.7 miles17

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 West HarrisonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2149387The 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 445771. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.