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Harrisville, New York

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1913 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Diana town. It lies in ZIP code area 13648. It stands on South Creek. The Survey maps it on the Harrisville quadrangle. 628 people lived here at the 2010 count. It stands 807 feet above sea level.

Harrisville within Lewis County

Then and now

1913 to 1985

The same ground, surveyed 72 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Harrisville, surveyed 1985
Topographic sheet of Harrisville, surveyed 1913

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 17 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

48 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 48 fires within 5 miles of Harrisville between 1992 and 2020, burning about 110 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 5 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/undetermined21
Arson/incendiarism5
Equipment and vehicle use4
Other causes4
Debris and open burning4
Natural3
Recreation and ceremony3
Smoking2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
30 August 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
30 August 1995Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
26 August 2019Naturalunder an acreNew York Forest RangersPITCAIRN FIRE
18 August 2015Other causesunder an acreFire Department of New YorkHARRISVILLE
15 August 2002Equipment and vehicle use1.2 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
14 August 2017Other causesunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
14 August 2002Equipment and vehicle use23 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
13 August 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lewis County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 12 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 12 workings within 5 miles of Harrisville: 5 past producers, 2 prospects, 2 producers, 2 occurrences. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Wollastonite, Iron, Marble, Dimension. 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
Diana ComplexIron, Titanium, MetalOccurrence
Erwin Ackerman Property DepositMicaProspect
George G. Goodelle Property DepositIronProspect
Harrisville QuarryMarble, DimensionPast ProducerSurface
Shirtliff MineIronPast Producer1838, 1888
Unnamed QuarryMarble, DimensionPast ProducerMarble
Gouveneur #4 Mine & #3 MillWollastonitePlant
Harrisville DepositWollastoniteOccurrence
Kiggins PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Patchin Road PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary

Every working recorded in Lewis County

Storms near this place

16 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Harrisville in 16 storm reports between 1998 and 2024: 13 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 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
June 2018Thunderstorm WindHarrisville$30,000Roof blown off building on Hands Flat Road.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindHarrisville$20,000no account filed
May 2017Thunderstorm WindHarrisville$15,000Law enforcement reported trees and wires downed by thunderstorm winds.
June 2016Thunderstorm WindHarrisville$15,000Law enforcement reported trees and wires down by thunderstorm winds.
August 2015Thunderstorm WindHarrisville$15,000Thunderstorm winds downed trees and wires on Church Street.
November 2005Thunderstorm WindHarrisville$15,000no account filed
May 2009Thunderstorm WindHarrisville$10,000no account filed
July 2005Thunderstorm WindHarrisville$10,000no account filed
July 1999Thunderstorm WindHarrisville$10,000no account filed
June 1998HailHarrisville$10,000no account filed
June 2018Thunderstorm WindHarrisville$2,000Several trees down in the town of Diana.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindHarrisville$2,000Several trees down at the intersection of Main Street and Wilder Drive.
June 2021Thunderstorm WindHarrisville$1,000Trees were reported down in Harrisville.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindHarrisville$500A tree was downed in the town of Harrisville.
August 2024FloodHarrisville-A portion of Middle Branch Road flooded in Diana.
July 2012HailHarrisville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Lewis 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
Remington Corners2.9 miles17
Lake Bonaparte3.2 miles18
Kimball Mill4.8 miles17
Alpina5.7 miles18
Diana Center8.2 miles17
Jerden Falls9.6 miles17
North Croghan Crossing12.3 miles17
Indian River12.4 miles18

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 Q3461555The 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 952291. 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.