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Swift, Alabama

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1921 and the latest in 1980. It stands in the Foley census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36535. It stands on Sandy Creek. The Survey maps it on the Foley quadrangle. It stands 23 feet above sea level.

Swift within Baldwin County

On record in Swift

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 17 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

103 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 103 fires within 5 miles of Swift between 1994 and 2020, burning about 3,766 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 32 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
Arson/incendiarism32
Debris and open burning31
Missing data/not specified/undetermined17
Equipment and vehicle use8
Natural7
Recreation and ceremony7
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
3 September 2014Naturalunder an acreAlabama Forestry CommissionSWR-20140903-002
23 September 2010Debris and open burning6.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
27 August 2015Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreAlabama Forestry CommissionSWR-20150827-001
24 August 2011Natural15 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionFISH TRAP ROAD, AL
9 July 2014Natural200 acresFlorida Forest ServiceTARKLIN BAYOU
8 July 1995Debris and open burning4.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
28 July 1998Arson/incendiarism300 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
20 July 2007Arson/incendiarism26 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Baldwin County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Swift: 1 past producer, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Aluminum. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Baldwin County Gibbsite SandAluminumProspect1958
Blackwell PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Baldwin 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
Miflin0.9 miles19
Blue Grass Recreational Vehicle Park2.8 miles17
Elberta3.0 miles17
Foley Recreational Vehicle Park3.1 miles17
Foley3.7 miles17
Oak5.8 miles17
Josephine6.1 miles19
Orange Beach6.3 miles19

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 Q22058567The 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 134722. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.