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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.

Harrison within Douglas County

Population over time

2 figures

Harrison 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.

YearPeople Change
201052
202055+3 (+6%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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

9 since 2006

Regional 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 burning4
Equipment and vehicle use3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
7 July 2007Equipment and vehicle use7.0 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire Suppressionnot named
27 July 2007Equipment and vehicle use10 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire Suppressionnot named
5 April 2008Debris and open burning1.0 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire Suppressionnot named
19 April 2008Debris and open burning1.0 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire Suppressionnot named
12 April 2006Debris and open burning191 acresLake Andes National Wildlife RefugeNEW HOLLAND
6 February 2012Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresLake Andes National Wildlife RefugeNEW HOLLAND
28 November 2007Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire Suppressionnot named
1 January 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire Suppressionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Douglas County

Storms near this place

17 since 2005

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2020Thunderstorm WindHarrison$50,000A farmstead suffered damage to several trees and two grain bins. A concrete silo was toppled. Property damage costs are rough estimates.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindHarrison$35,000On a farmstead, a concrete silo was toppled, trees uprooted, and windows broken on the house. Property damage costs are rough estimates.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindHarrison$30,000A concrete silo was toppled and a door to a metal shed bent inward. Property damage costs are rough estimates.
July 2007Thunderstorm WindHarrison$15,000Thunderstorm winds blew down power poles and flattened corn. The amount of crop damage was not known.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindHarrison$5,000Damage was done to several trees, and the covering was ripped off a hoop barn. Property damage costs are rough estimates.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindHarrison-Thunderstorm wind gusts measured on a personal weather station.
July 2010Tornado (EF0)Harrison-A rain wrapped tornado caused no reported damage.
July 2010Thunderstorm WindHarrison-Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, including large trees blown down. One healthy maple tree was uprooted.
June 2009Tornado (EF0)Harrison-A brief tornado caused no reported damage.
August 2009Thunderstorm WindHarrison-Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, including several branches blown down.
August 2007Flash FloodHarrison-Heavy rainfall of 3 to 6 inches flooded numerous roads and fields. Yards were flooded in the town of Corsica.
September 2007Thunderstorm WindHarrison-Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, including several branches blown down.
June 2017HailHarrison-no account filed
June 2009Funnel CloudHarrison-no account filed
April 2007HailHarrison-no account filed
July 2007HailHarrison-no account filed
August 2005HailHarrison-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Douglas 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
New Holland4.3 miles9
Corsica6.4 miles9
Joubert7.4 miles9
Grandview (historical)9.2 miles9
Douglas City (historical)11.7 miles9
Armour12.3 miles9
Hillside16.9 miles9
Delmont22.3 miles9

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 HarrisonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2682279The 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.