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Welcome to Harrison ...Harrison is located Harrison is located in McLennan County<1>. We aren't confident of the location of Harrison, so consider the above location as an estimate.<2> While we don't have a date for the founding of Harrison, you might consider that their post office opened in 1879. Harrison is 460 feet [140 m] above sea level.<3>. Time Zone: Harrison lies in the Central Time Zone (CST/CDT) and observes daylight saving time Harrison is within the boundaries of the (254) area code. Using our Gazetteer, we found that there are 45 communities that are also named Harrison - they are located in Arkansas, California, Florida (2), Georgia (2), Idaho, Illinois (2), Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Maine, Maryland, Michigan (4), Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Jersey (3), New York, Newfoundland and Labrador, North Carolina, Ohio (6), Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania (2), South Dakota, Tennessee, Washington, West Virginia (2) and Wisconsin (2). For more information, see our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Harrison. We have created a list of 10 communities that are near Harrison. We have a couple of sections for those tracing their genealogy. We created a list of cemeteries that are in the area around Harrison. Our list includes the location of those cemeteries and we provide an overhead view. See our Cemetery List for Harrison. Using the information from an 1895 Atlas, we've created a list of communities that were in the area of Harrison. Our list includes information such as whether the 1895 community had a post office or railroad service. See our List of 1890's Communities around Harrison. We also have a detailed list of newspapers that have been published in the area around Harrison. See our Newspapers Page for Harrison. Looking for more information about Harrison? A wonderful source is the TripAdvisor website. We always start with the TripAdvisor Tourism page, where you can read an overview with links that will help you find lodging, restaurants and attractions. While we are unaware of a Tourism page that is specific to Harrison, there are neighboring communities that do have Tourism pages. A map of those communities can be found with our TripAdvisor Page for Harrison. We originally found mention of Harrison in both the FIPS-55 and the GNIS. For more information, see the FIPS and GNIS Codes sections on our Miscellaneous Page. From our notes, the earliest published mention we've found for Harrison was on a map titled Map of Texas (from Rand McNally, 1911). We also found Harrison in the book titled .<6> From that list, the Harrison post office opened in 1879.
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