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Decorative drawing: a small American settlement seen from a low hill. Not a photograph of this place.

Harrisonville, Ohio

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1980. It stands in Scipio Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45769. The Survey maps it on the Albany quadrangle.

Harrisonville within Meigs County

Then and now

1907 to 1980

The same ground, surveyed 73 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Harrisonville, surveyed 1980
Topographic sheet of Harrisonville, surveyed 1907

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 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 nearby

14 since 2009

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Harrisonville between 2009 and 2020, burning about 37 acres in total. None 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 burning9
Equipment and vehicle use2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
21 May 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources15198
6 April 2016Debris and open burning1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources4253
6 April 2016Power generation/transmission/distribution2.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources4254
25 April 2016Debris and open burning5.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources4626
23 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources11945
9 March 2009Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 March 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15444
5 March 2009Debris and open burning1.5 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Meigs County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 248 shown

Museums hold 248 specimens collected within 10 miles of Harrisonville between 1840 and 1973: 212 Animalia, 31 Plantae, 5 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by C. H. Jones, Charles M. Roberts, Clark, Joseph; Riddell, John Leonard and others. Each is a physical object with a catalogue number, and each entry opens the museum's record. This is what was collected and kept, not a survey of what lives here - nothing can be concluded from a species being absent.

Image SpeciesYear Collected by Where, as recorded
Specimen of Ustilago sorghi (Ehrenb. ex Link) Pass.Ustilago sorghi (Ehrenb. ex Link) Pass.1899Kellerman, W. A.FLORA OF OHIO
Specimen of Odontostephana obliqua (Jacq.) AlexanderOdontostephana obliqua (Jacq.) Alexander1963William G. Gambill Jr.
Specimen of Ratibida pinnata (Vent.) BarnhartRatibida pinnata (Vent.) Barnhart1963William G. Gambill Jr.
A photograph of the species Asplenium trichomanes, not of this specimenAsplenium trichomanes L.1840Clark, Joseph; Riddell, John LeonardMeigs County, Ohio
A photograph of the species Trichostrongylus Looss, not of this specimenTrichostrongylus Looss, 19051906E. StevensonClifton
A photograph of the species Bunostomum trigonocephalum, not of this specimenBunostomum trigonocephalum (Rudolphi, 1808)1912D. MoteCarpenter
Heterakidae1912D. MoteCarpenter
Obeliscoides cuniculi (Graybill, 1923)1912D. MoteCarpenter
A photograph of the species Oesophagostomum columbianum, not of this specimenOesophagostomum columbianum Curtice, 18901912D. MoteCarpenter
A photograph of the species Gymnosporangium globosum, not of this specimenGymnosporangium globosum (Farl.) Farl.1916Nixon, E. L.Pomeroy
A photograph of the species Catostomus commersonnii, not of this specimenCatostomus commersonnii commersonnii (Lacepède, 1803)1929MB Trautman & asstLeading Creek, trib of the Ohio drainage Langsville, Rutland Twp
A photograph of the species Etheostoma blennioides, not of this specimenEtheostoma blennioides Rafinesque, 18191929MB Trautman & asstLeading Creek, trib of the Ohio drainage Langsville, Rutland Twp

All 248 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms nearby

9 since 2001

The National Weather Service names Harrisonville in 9 storm reports between 2001 and 2026: 4 thunderstorm wind, 4 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
August 2010Thunderstorm WindHarrisonville$10,000Several trees and large branches were blown down. Electric power outages occurred.
August 2010Thunderstorm WindHarrisonville$5,000Trees fell onto power lines along Route 143.
April 2025Thunderstorm WindHarrisonville$1,500A tree fell onto power lines near State Route 143 outside of Rutland.
January 2022FloodHarrisonville$1,000Flooding led all lanes on State Route 143 to be closed from New Lima Road to Wagner Lane.
February 2021FloodHarrisonville$1,000State Route 143 outside of the town of Pomeroy was closed for a brief time due to high water.
May 2001Thunderstorm WindHarrisonville$1,000Trees and large branches fell along Route 143.
September 2018FloodHarrisonville$500High water caused the closure of State Routes 124 and 143.
March 2026FloodHarrisonville-State Route 143 was closed from Old Landfill Road to Township Road 1004 due to flooding.
February 2025Flash FloodHarrisonville-Route 143 was closed due to flooding between Routes 684 and 124.

Every storm recorded in Meigs 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
Horner Hill2.4 miles14
Welsh2.7 miles13
Pageville2.8 miles13
Snowville3.7 miles13
Bunker Hill (historical)4.0 miles14
Lima4.4 miles14
Wolfpen4.6 miles14
Martinsburg (historical)4.7 miles13

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 HarrisonvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q22133803The 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 1048820. 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.

Specimens. Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), https://www.gbif.org/. Only records licensed CC0 or CC BY are used. Records licensed CC BY-NC are excluded because this site carries advertising. Images are checked individually and any whose licence is non-commercial, no-derivatives or unreadable is refused.

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.