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Swan Lake, Arkansas

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1935 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Old River Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72004. The Survey maps it on the Cornerstone quadrangle.

Swan Lake within Jefferson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 16 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

4 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Swan Lake between 2004 and 2015, burning about 39 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 was 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
Debris and open burning3
Arson/incendiarism1

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
8 March 2010Debris and open burning32 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
1 March 2004Debris and open burning2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
28 February 2004Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
13 October 2015Debris and open burning1.6 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jefferson County

Storms near this place

2 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Swan Lake in 2 storm reports between 1996 and 2000: 1 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 2000Thunderstorm WindSwan Lake-no account filed
April 1996HailSwan Lake-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Jefferson 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
Linn (historical)1.1 miles16
Clements (historical)1.3 miles16
Sweden1.8 miles16
English2.1 miles16
Lake Farm3.0 miles16
Richardson3.4 miles16
Elmwood3.5 miles16
Birmac4.0 miles15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 78509. 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.