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Swancott, Alabama

24 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1984. It lies in ZIP code area 35756. The Survey maps it on the Mason Ridge quadrangle.

Swancott within Limestone County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 24 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

60 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 60 fires within 5 miles of Swancott between 1994 and 2019, burning about 750 acres in total. None started naturally. 14 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined27
Arson/incendiarism14
Debris and open burning7
Equipment and vehicle use4
Recreation and ceremony4
Smoking2
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Other causes1

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 1997Missing data/not specified/undetermined85 acresWheeler National Wildlife RefugeFM 97-8
6 September 1999Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 1999Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 1999Arson/incendiarismunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 1995Railroad operations and maintenance2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 1998Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresWheeler National Wildlife RefugeFM 98-7
24 September 1999Debris and open burning8.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
22 September 1998Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresWheeler National Wildlife RefugeFM 98-6

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Limestone County

Storms near this place

3 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Swancott in 3 storm reports between 2009 and 2025: 2 hail, 1 funnel cloud. 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
May 2025Funnel CloudSwancott-A brief funnel cloud was spotted just west of Huntsville International Airport and County Line Road, south of Interstate 565.
April 2009HailSwancott-Half dollar size hail fell at Boeing Blvd.
April 2009HailSwancott-Golf ball size hail fell in the Swancott area of Limestone county. This was reported by the Decatur Daily.

Every storm recorded in Limestone 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
New Hope1.6 miles24
Mooresville5.3 miles22
Greenbrier5.9 miles25
Belle Mina6.3 miles22
Sweetwater7.1 miles22
Irvington8.0 miles22
Parker8.2 miles25
Salem Corner8.6 miles22

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.

Wikidata item Q122558603The 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 157134. 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.