Harrisville, Ohio

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.

1905 1986

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, 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.

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.

• 1905 USGS St. Clairsville quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1951 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
• 1953 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
• 1957 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1960 USGS Harrisville quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
• 1962 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1986 USGS Pittsburgh West quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Harrisville between 2003 and 2017, burning about 22 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Hagan Addition
• Horton
• Newtown (historical)
• Belknap
• Belleve
• Chickwan

Every fire recorded in Harrison County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. 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	Species	Year	Collected by	Where, as recorded
	Sinapis arvensis L.	1889	L. Dickerson
	Pseudopeziza medicaginis (Lib.) Sacc.	1908	not recorded	Cadiz
	Halictidae	1925	Pallister, J. C. (John C.)	Harrisville, Ohio
	Arthropoda	1934	H. Waters	Hopedale, Plot 128
	Grapholita eclipsana (Zeller, 1875)	1934	Waters, H.	Hopedale
	Gnorimoschema gallaesolidaginis (Riley, 1869)	1964	Miller, W.E.	Harrisville
	Gnorimoschema salinaris Busck, 1911	1964	Miller, W.E.	Harrisville
	Verbena urticifolia L.	1964	Andrew R. Moldenke	Cadiz

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

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. 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.

Every storm recorded in Harrison County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

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.

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.