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.
Population over time
3 figuresHarrison 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 162 | |
| 2010 | 137 | -25 (-15%) |
| 2020 | 105 | -32 (-23%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
11 surveys from 21 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.
- 1888 USGS Three Forks quadrangle1:250000
- 1894 USGS Three Forks quadrangle1:250000
- 1895 USGS Three Forks quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
- 1947 USGS Bozeman quadrangle1:250000
- 1948 USGS Bozeman quadrangle1:250000
- 1950 USGS Harrison quadrangle1:62500, 5 printings
- 1955 USGS Bozeman quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Bozeman quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1965 USGS Bozeman quadrangle1:250000
- 1988 USGS Harrison quadrangle1:24000
- 1992 USGS Bozeman quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
3 since 1996Regional 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/undetermined | 1 |
| Natural | 1 |
| Smoking | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25 August 2000 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Central Land Office | not named |
| 22 August 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Central Land Office | not named |
| 5 October 1996 | Smoking | 135 acres | Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest | CAVERN |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bessie and Golden Wave Mine | Gold, Copper, Silver, Tungsten | Occurrence | ||
| Madison Quartz Deposit C | Quartz | Occurrence | Quartz | |
| Sappington | Mica, REE, Niobium (Columbium) | Producer | Fergusonite | |
| Sappington Deposit | Niobium (Columbium), Tantalum, REE, Mica | Occurrence | Fergusonite, Muscovite | |
| Sappington Limestone Deposit | Limestone, Dimension | Occurrence | ||
| Unknown | Uranium | Occurrence | ||
| Harrison Iron | Iron | Occurrence | 1940 | |
| Norweigen | Iron | Past Producer | ||
| Chile | Gold | Past Producer | ||
| Whippoorwill | Gold | Past Producer |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Harrison Mill | 1.9 miles | 21 | |
| Shaws | 2.7 miles | 21 | |
| Beals | 3.4 miles | 21 | |
| Stringtown (historical) | 3.5 miles | 21 | |
| Pony | 6.4 miles | 22 | |
| Summit Valley | 7.4 miles | 21 | |
| Sterling | 9.5 miles | 22 | |
| Norris | 10.5 miles | 20 |
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 Harrison | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q969546 | The 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.










