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Harrison, New York

34 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1897 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Harrison town. It lies in ZIP code area 10528. It lies near Thealls Hill. The Survey maps it on the Mamaroneck quadrangle. 28,218 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 72 feet above sea level.

Harrison within Westchester County

Then and now

1897 to 1984

The same ground, surveyed 87 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Harrison, surveyed 1984
Topographic sheet of Harrison, surveyed 1897

On record in Harrison

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 3 records

Population over time

2 figures

Harrison grew from 27,472 to 28,218 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
201027,472
202028,218+746 (+3%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 34 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

455 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 455 fires within 5 miles of Harrison between 2000 and 2020, burning about 331 acres in total. 23 started naturally. 58 were 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/undetermined239
Smoking71
Arson/incendiarism58
Recreation and ceremony28
Natural23
Debris and open burning16
Equipment and vehicle use11
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Other causes1

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
8 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 September 2005Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
5 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Westchester County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Harrison: 5 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Dimension, Granite, Stone. 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
Christiano Oak Ridge Diorite Gneiss Rock QuarryStonePast Producer1833
Ritch Diorite Gneiss Rock QuarryStone, DimensionPast ProducerUnknown
Ritch QuarryGranitePast Producer
Voorhis Diorite Gneiss Rock QuarryStone, DimensionPast Producer
Voorhis QuarryGranitePast Producer

Every working recorded in Westchester County

Storms near this place

4 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Harrison in 4 storm reports between 1995 and 2021: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 flood, 1 flash flood. 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
September 2021Thunderstorm WindHarrison$1,000Tree down across Playland Parkway between Forest Avenue and Midland Avenue.
September 2021Flash FloodHarrison-The basement of a home on Thorne Place in Rye was flooding.
April 2007FloodHarrison-no account filed
July 1995Thunderstorm WindHarrison-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Westchester 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
Brentwood Plaza0.3 miles34
Sunset Ridge0.7 miles34
Harbor Heights1.1 miles34
Dublin1.2 miles34
Fenmore Park1.3 miles34
Greenhaven1.3 miles34
Milton1.4 miles34
Shore Acres1.6 miles34

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 Q3476507The 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 977345. 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.