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Harrison, Montana

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Harrison census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59735. The Survey maps it on the Harrison quadrangle. 105 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 4,918 feet above sea level.

Harrison within Madison County

Population over time

3 figures

Harrison fell from 162 to 105 between 2000 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
2000162
2010137-25 (-15%)
2020105-32 (-23%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 21 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

3 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Harrison between 1996 and 2017, burning about 137 acres in total. 1 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Natural1
Smoking1

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
25 August 2000Natural1.0 acresCentral Land Officenot named
22 August 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresCentral Land Officenot named
5 October 1996Smoking135 acresBeaverhead-Deerlodge National ForestCAVERN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Madison County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Harrison: 6 occurrences, 3 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Iron, Copper, Silver, Tungsten, Quartz. 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
Bessie and Golden Wave MineGold, Copper, Silver, TungstenOccurrence
Madison Quartz Deposit CQuartzOccurrenceQuartz
SappingtonMica, REE, Niobium (Columbium)ProducerFergusonite
Sappington DepositNiobium (Columbium), Tantalum, REE, MicaOccurrenceFergusonite, Muscovite
Sappington Limestone DepositLimestone, DimensionOccurrence
UnknownUraniumOccurrence
Harrison IronIronOccurrence1940
NorweigenIronPast Producer
ChileGoldPast Producer
WhippoorwillGoldPast Producer

Every working recorded in Madison 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
Harrison Mill1.9 miles21
Shaws2.7 miles21
Beals3.4 miles21
Stringtown (historical)3.5 miles21
Pony6.4 miles22
Summit Valley7.4 miles21
Sterling9.5 miles22
Norris10.5 miles20

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 HarrisonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q969546The 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 784573. 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.