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Harrison is a village in Calumet County (with a small portion in Outagamie County) on the northeast shore of Lake Winnebago, bordering Appleton and Menasha, and it is part of the Appleton metropolitan area.

Harrison is one of the newest villages in Wisconsin — it was created on March 8, 2013, when residents voted to incorporate the northwestern part of the Town of Harrison as a village, and a later boundary agreement reunified the town and village into one community.

The community's roots go back to 1853, when it was chartered as the Town of Lima; it became the Town of Harrison in 1858.

Harrison had a population of 12,418 at the 2020 census, its first census as a village, and the Census Bureau estimated it had already grown to about 14,492 people by July 2025.

Census Bureau survey estimates for 2020–2024 count about 4,919 households in Harrison, averaging 2.77 people per household, with a median household income of about $121,500.

Harrison covers about 31.9 square miles, a village area much larger than most Wisconsin villages, blending new subdivisions in its northwest with working farmland in its east and south.

Dairy farming, crop production, and livestock raising remain a significant part of Harrison's economy, especially in the eastern and southern parts of the village.

Much of Harrison is known locally as Darboy, the name of the unincorporated community at its heart, which it shares with the neighboring Town of Buchanan.

The North Shore Golf Club, a private 18-hole course built in 1930 along the north shore of Lake Winnebago and designed by Leonard Macomber, is located in Harrison.

The Lake Winnebago shoreline community of Waverly Beach lies within Harrison, giving the village a stretch of waterfront on Wisconsin's largest inland lake.