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Harrisville, Wisconsin

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1957 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Harris town. It lies in ZIP code area 53964. It stands on Westfield Creek. The Survey maps it on the Westfield East quadrangle. 90 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 820 feet above sea level.

Harrisville within Marquette County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 10 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

170 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 170 fires within 5 miles of Harrisville between 1992 and 2020, burning about 196 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 12 were 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 burning66
Equipment and vehicle use39
Missing data/not specified/undetermined18
Other causes13
Arson/incendiarism12
Power generation/transmission/distribution7
Recreation and ceremony7
Smoking3
Natural3
Fireworks1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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 1999Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 September 2013Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources8TH AVE FIRE
2 September 2003Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
19 September 1996Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
18 September 1996Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
1 September 1995Equipment and vehicle use1.5 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 August 2005Naturalunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
22 August 2017Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources10TH LANE FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Marquette County

Storms near this place

6 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Harrisville in 6 storm reports between 2005 and 2018: 4 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
July 2007Flash FloodHarrisville$50,000Slow moving thunderstorm cells trained over the same area northeast of Harrisville near and along CTH E (3 NE Harrisville or about 2.7 miles west-southwest of Budsin), resulting in a flash flood. Water depths on road surfaces reached 2 to 3 feet, and water entered basements of several homes. Damage occurred to personal property in the basements. WSR-88D Doppler radar rainfall estimates were on the order of 3 to 4 inches.
June 2017Thunderstorm WindHarrisville$10,000Numerous branches and trees down throughout the county with the exception of the southwest side of the county.
July 2018Thunderstorm WindHarrisville$2,000Five trees down in the northern portion of Marquette County.
July 2005Thunderstorm WindHarrisville$2,000no account filed
May 2016HailHarrisville-no account filed
June 2005Thunderstorm WindHarrisville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Marquette 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
Westfield4.7 miles10
Budsin5.7 miles10
Lawrence7.4 miles11
Montello7.5 miles10
Germania7.9 miles10
Packwaukee8.4 miles10
Glen Oak9.5 miles12
Buffalo Shore Estates10.1 miles12

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 Q5666288The 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 1566100. 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.