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

Harrisville, Ohio

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Short Creek Township. It stands on Henderson Ridge. The Survey maps it on the Harrisville quadrangle. 179 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,250 feet above sea level.

Harrisville within Harrison County

Population over time

3 figures

Harrisville fell from 300 to 179 between 1850 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. 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
1850300
2010235
2020179-56 (-24%)

Then and now

1905 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 81 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 1986
Topographic sheet of Harrisville, surveyed 1905

Topographic sheets covering this place

17 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

1 since 2016

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Harrisville between 2016 and 2016, burning about 0 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
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
30 March 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources4005

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Harrison County

Specimens collected nearby

8 of 12 shown

Museums hold 12 specimens collected within 10 miles of Harrisville between 1889 and 1964: 9 Animalia, 2 Plantae, 1 Fungi. 8 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Andrew R. Moldenke, H. Waters, L. Dickerson 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
A photograph of the species Sinapis arvensis, not of this specimenSinapis arvensis L.1889L. Dickerson
A photograph of the species Pseudopeziza medicaginis, not of this specimenPseudopeziza medicaginis (Lib.) Sacc.1908not recordedCadiz
Halictidae1925Pallister, J. C. (John C.)Harrisville, Ohio
Arthropoda1934H. WatersHopedale, Plot 128
A photograph of the species Grapholita eclipsana, not of this specimenGrapholita eclipsana (Zeller, 1875)1934Waters, H.Hopedale
A photograph of the species Gnorimoschema gallaesolidaginis, not of this specimenGnorimoschema gallaesolidaginis (Riley, 1869)1964Miller, W.E.Harrisville
A photograph of the species Gnorimoschema salinaris, not of this specimenGnorimoschema salinaris Busck, 19111964Miller, W.E.Harrisville
A photograph of the species Verbena urticifolia, not of this specimenVerbena urticifolia L.1964Andrew R. MoldenkeCadiz

All 12 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms nearby

8 since 1998

The National Weather Service names Harrisville in 8 storm reports between 1998 and 2025: 6 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood, 1 hail. 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
April 2025Thunderstorm WindHarrisville$5,000A tree fell on a house.
June 2002Thunderstorm WindHarrisville$5,000Thunderstorm winds downed several large trees.
June 2015Thunderstorm WindHarrisville$3,000Law enforcement reported trees and wires down.
July 1999Thunderstorm WindHarrisville$3,000Thunderstorm winds downed several trees.
February 2024Thunderstorm WindHarrisville$1,000The Department of Highways reported trees down along US 250 near Harrisville, OH. Time estimated based on radar.
December 2013Thunderstorm WindHarrisville$1,000The public reported trees and power lines down.
June 1998Flash FloodHarrisville-A small portion of SR 250 was closed due to flash flooding.
June 2009HailHarrisville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Harrison 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
Horton1.7 miles17
Newtown (historical)1.9 miles17
Hagan Addition2.3 miles17
Georgetown2.5 miles17
Belknap3.4 miles17
Duncanwood3.5 miles17
Chickwan3.5 miles17
Hammond Crossroad3.6 miles17

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 Q2668839The 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 1048821. 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.