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Harrisville, Michigan

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Harrisville City. It lies in ZIP code area 48740. It stands on Mill Creek. The Survey maps it on the Harrisville quadrangle. 437 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 623 feet above sea level.

Harrisville within Alcona County

On record in Harrisville

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Population over time

3 figures

Harrisville fell from 549 to 437 between 1880 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
1880549
2010493
2020437-56 (-11%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 11 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

49 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 49 fires within 5 miles of Harrisville between 1992 and 2018, burning about 64 acres in total. 2 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 burning17
Equipment and vehicle use13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Power generation/transmission/distribution6
Smoking2
Natural2
Other causes1
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
12 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesALCONA 26 - HAYBALE FIRE
28 August 2007Naturalunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
24 July 2012Smokingunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesALCONA 20 - R&D FIRE
11 July 2015Power generation/transmission/distribution2.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesALCONA 20 - BRUCELSSS
1 July 2018Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesGREENBUSH TOWNSHIP VFD 0000008 - 2018
7 June 2014Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesALCONA 0012
7 June 2014Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesALCONA 0010
7 June 2014Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesALCONA 0011

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Alcona County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Harrisville: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. 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
Slater No 1 Pit and MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Alcona County

Storms near this place

14 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Harrisville in 14 storm reports between 1997 and 2008: 7 thunderstorm wind, 7 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2005Thunderstorm WindHarrisville$2,000Trees were knocked down at Everett and Trask Lake Roads.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindHarrisville$2,000A large tree and some power lines were downed by wind.
July 2003Thunderstorm WindHarrisville-Numerous tree limbs downed.
September 2002Thunderstorm WindHarrisville-Telephone pole blown over and several large branches down.
August 2001Thunderstorm WindHarrisville-Trees down.
June 2008HailHarrisville-no account filed
June 2004HailHarrisville-no account filed
July 2003HailHarrisville-no account filed
May 2002HailHarrisville-no account filed
May 2000HailHarrisville-no account filed
May 2000HailHarrisville-no account filed
May 2000HailHarrisville-no account filed
May 1998Thunderstorm WindHarrisville-no account filed
June 1997Thunderstorm WindHarrisville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Alcona 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
Springport1.6 miles11
Greenbush4.9 miles11
Lincoln6.5 miles11
Gustin6.7 miles11
Alcona7.2 miles8
Mikado8.2 miles11
Killmaster8.5 miles11
Lost Lake Woods10.8 miles9

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 HarrisvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2745108The 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 627866. 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.

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.