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Harrison, Wisconsin

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1950 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Harrison town. It lies in ZIP code area 54487. The Survey maps it on the Harrison quadrangle. It stands 1,598 feet above sea level.

Harrison within Lincoln County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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

45 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 45 fires within 5 miles of Harrison between 1992 and 2020, burning about 44 acres in total. 1 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 burning12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Recreation and ceremony7
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Equipment and vehicle use4
Smoking4
Other causes2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Natural1

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 September 2003Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
26 September 2018Other causesunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesLON BASCO LANE
26 September 1999Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
12 September 2007Smokingunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
31 August 2001Natural1.5 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 August 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
16 August 1992Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
31 July 1997Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lincoln County

Storms near this place

13 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Harrison in 13 storm reports between 1996 and 2024: 10 thunderstorm wind, 3 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
August 1996Thunderstorm WindHarrison$2,000no account filed
July 2024HailHarrison-Quarter size hail fell near Harrison.
June 2024Thunderstorm WindHarrison-Thunderstorm winds downed trees in Harrison. The time of this report is an estimate based on radar data.
June 2024Thunderstorm WindHarrison-Thunderstorm winds downed trees in Harrison. The time of this report is an estimate based on radar data.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindHarrison-Thunderstorm winds downed trees and power lines near Harrison. The time of this report is an estimate based on radar data.
August 2018Thunderstorm WindHarrison-Thunderstorm winds downed trees and power lines near Harrison. The time of this report was estimated based on radar data.
September 2014HailHarrison-Hail to at least quarter size fell in Harrison. The time of this report is estimated.
July 2006HailHarrison-no account filed
June 2001Thunderstorm WindHarrison-no account filed
September 2000Thunderstorm WindHarrison-no account filed
July 1999Thunderstorm WindHarrison-no account filed
August 1998Thunderstorm WindHarrison-no account filed
June 1997Thunderstorm WindHarrison-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Lincoln 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
Bundy4.2 miles11
Jeffris4.4 miles9
Dudley10.0 miles11
Gilbert10.4 miles9
Gleason11.6 miles11
Tomahawk11.8 miles9
Heafford Junction12.1 miles12
Irma12.1 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 Q5665485The 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 1566089. 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.