Harrison, South Dakota
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Holland Township. It lies in ZIP code area 57344. The Survey maps it on the New Holland quadrangle. 55 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,600 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresHarrison grew from 52 to 55 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 52 | |
| 2020 | 55 | +3 (+6%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 9 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1955 USGS Mitchell quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1959 USGS Mitchell quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1979 USGS New Holland quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Lake Andes quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
- 1990 USGS Mitchell quadrangle1:250000
Fires near this place
9 since 2006Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Harrison between 2006 and 2012, burning about 219 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 burning | 4 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 July 2007 | Equipment and vehicle use | 7.0 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | not named |
| 27 July 2007 | Equipment and vehicle use | 10 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | not named |
| 5 April 2008 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | not named |
| 19 April 2008 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | not named |
| 12 April 2006 | Debris and open burning | 191 acres | Lake Andes National Wildlife Refuge | NEW HOLLAND |
| 6 February 2012 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.0 acres | Lake Andes National Wildlife Refuge | NEW HOLLAND |
| 28 November 2007 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.0 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | not named |
| 1 January 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
17 since 2005Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Harrison in 17 storm reports between 2005 and 2024: 9 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 2 tornado, 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Harrison | $50,000 | A farmstead suffered damage to several trees and two grain bins. A concrete silo was toppled. Property damage costs are rough estimates. |
| June 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Harrison | $35,000 | On a farmstead, a concrete silo was toppled, trees uprooted, and windows broken on the house. Property damage costs are rough estimates. |
| June 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Harrison | $30,000 | A concrete silo was toppled and a door to a metal shed bent inward. Property damage costs are rough estimates. |
| July 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Harrison | $15,000 | Thunderstorm winds blew down power poles and flattened corn. The amount of crop damage was not known. |
| June 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Harrison | $5,000 | Damage was done to several trees, and the covering was ripped off a hoop barn. Property damage costs are rough estimates. |
| July 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Harrison | - | Thunderstorm wind gusts measured on a personal weather station. |
| July 2010 | Tornado (EF0) | Harrison | - | A rain wrapped tornado caused no reported damage. |
| July 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Harrison | - | Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, including large trees blown down. One healthy maple tree was uprooted. |
| June 2009 | Tornado (EF0) | Harrison | - | A brief tornado caused no reported damage. |
| August 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Harrison | - | Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, including several branches blown down. |
| August 2007 | Flash Flood | Harrison | - | Heavy rainfall of 3 to 6 inches flooded numerous roads and fields. Yards were flooded in the town of Corsica. |
| September 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Harrison | - | Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, including several branches blown down. |
| June 2017 | Hail | Harrison | - | no account filed |
| June 2009 | Funnel Cloud | Harrison | - | no account filed |
| April 2007 | Hail | Harrison | - | no account filed |
| July 2007 | Hail | Harrison | - | no account filed |
| August 2005 | Hail | Harrison | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Holland | 4.3 miles | 9 | |
| Corsica | 6.4 miles | 9 | |
| Joubert | 7.4 miles | 9 | |
| Grandview (historical) | 9.2 miles | 9 | |
| Douglas City (historical) | 11.7 miles | 9 | |
| Armour | 12.3 miles | 9 | |
| Hillside | 16.9 miles | 9 | |
| Delmont | 22.3 miles | 9 |
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 Harrison | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2682279 | The 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 1255447. 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.
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.




