Harrison Village Office

Harrison Village Office is the municipal office for Harrison, Nebraska, at 325 Main Street. Harrison is the county seat of Sioux County, population 239, and at 4,876 feet it has the highest elevation of any town in Nebraska, which is why it calls itself Nebraska's Top Town. It was platted as Bowen in 1886 when the railroad arrived, renamed Harrison in 1887 for President Benjamin Harrison, and incorporated in 1889. Sioux County is Nebraska's northwestern corner county and one of the least densely populated counties in the United States, and Harrison is its only incorporated community and its trade centre. The village is the nearest community to Agate Fossil Beds National Monument, which preserves Miocene mammal fossils about twenty million years old along with the Cook Collection of more than 500 Plains Indian artifacts. Dwight Griswold, Governor of Nebraska from 1941 to 1947 and later a United States Senator, was born in Harrison.