Swanston, California

The same ground, surveyed 103 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1891 1994

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.

• North Sacramento Schoollisted 2021 · 0.8 miles away

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.

• 1891 USGS Sacramento quadrangle1:125000
• 1892 USGS Sacramento quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
• 1893 USGS Sacramento quadrangle1:125000
• 1902 USGS Fairoaks quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1911 USGS Brighton quadrangle1:31680, 2 printings
• 1947 USGS Sacramento quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1948 USGS Sacramento quadrangle1:250000
• 1949 USGS Sacramento East quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1954 USGS Fair Oaks quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1954 USGS Sacramento East quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1956 USGS Sacramento quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1957 USGS Sacramento quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
• 1967 USGS Sacramento East quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
• 1992 USGS Sacramento East quadrangle1:24000
• 1994 USGS Sacramento quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 274 fires within 5 miles of Swanston between 2005 and 2020, burning about 268 acres in total. None started naturally. 17 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Arcade
• Gardenland
• North Sacramento
• Town and Country Village
• Ben Ali
• Del Paso Heights

Every fire recorded in Sacramento County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 30 workings within 5 miles of Swanston: 16 past producers, 8 producers, 3 occurrences, 2 prospects. 8 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Gold, Clay, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Sacramento County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1659934. 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.