Harrison, Arkansas
| Harrison, Arkansas | |
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Historic downtown Harrison
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| Motto: "Adventure Awaits You" | |
 Location in Boone County and the state of Arkansas |
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| Coordinates: 36°14′14″N 93°6′49″W / 36.23722°N 93.11361°WCoordinates: 36°14′14″N 93°6′49″W / 36.23722°N 93.11361°W | |
| Country | United States |
| State | Arkansas |
| County | Boone |
| Platted | 1869 |
| Area | |
| • Total | 11.1 sq mi (28.8 km2) |
| • Land | 11.1 sq mi (28.7 km2) |
| • Water | 0.04 sq mi (0.1 km2) |
| Elevation | 1,050 ft (320 m) |
| Population (2010) | |
| • Total | 12,943 |
| • Density | 1,168/sq mi (451.0/km2) |
| Time zone | Central (CST) (UTC-6) |
| • Summer (DST) | CDT (UTC-5) |
| ZIP codes | 72601-72602 |
| Area code(s) | 870 |
| FIPS code | 05-30460 |
| GNIS feature ID | 0077134 |
| Website | cityofharrison |
Harrison is a city in Boone County, Arkansas, United States. It is the county seat. It named after General Marcus LaRue Harrison, a surveyor that laid out the city along Crooked Creek at Stifler Springs. According to 2012 Census Bureau estimates, the population of the city was 13,163, up from 12,943 at the 2010 census.
Harrison is the principal city of the Harrison Micropolitan Statistical Area, which includes all of Boone and Newton counties.
Native Americans were the first inhabitants of the area, the first probably being cliff dwellers who lived in caves in the bluffs along the rivers. In later times, the Osage, a branch of the Sioux, was the main tribe in the Ozarks, and one of their larger villages is thought to have been to the east of the present site of Harrison. The Shawnee, Quapaw, and Caddo people were also familiar to the area.
The Cherokee arrived around 1816 and did not get along with the Osage. This hostility erupted into a full-scale war in the Ozark Mountains. By the 1830s both tribes were removed to Indian Territory. It is possible that the first white men to visit the area were some forty followers of Hernando de Soto and that they camped at a Native village on the White River at the mouth of Bear Creek. It is more likely that the discoverers were French hunters or trappers who followed the course of the White River.
In early 1857, the Baker-Fancher wagon train assembled at Beller's Stand, south of Harrison. On September 11, 1857, approximately 120 members of this wagon train were murdered near Mountain Meadows, Utah Territory, by attacking local Mormon militia and members of the Paiute Indian tribe. In 1955, a monument to memorialize the victims of the massacre was placed on the Harrison town square.
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