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Swan Falls, Idaho

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Orchard census division. It lies in ZIP code area 83641. The Survey maps it on the Wild Horse Butte quadrangle. It stands 2,359 feet above sea level.

Swan Falls within Ada County

On record in Swan Falls

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

10 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

39 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 39 fires within 5 miles of Swan Falls between 1994 and 2020, burning about 12,102 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 2 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/undetermined11
Natural6
Recreation and ceremony5
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Equipment and vehicle use4
Fireworks3
Debris and open burning2
Firearms and explosives use2
Arson/incendiarism2

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 1998Natural193 acresBoise DistrictCOYOTE
4 September 2007Natural95 acresBoise DistrictSINKER
3 September 2001Power generation/transmission/distribution56 acresBoise DistrictOLD FERRY
27 September 2006Recreation and ceremony17 acresBoise DistrictSWAN FALLS
23 September 2010Power generation/transmission/distribution1.5 acresBoise DistrictBROOKS
2 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined182 acresBoise DistrictLITTLE BAJA
4 August 2011Natural1.0 acresBoise DistrictSUNK
4 August 2005Arson/incendiarism51 acresBoise DistrictSWAN CURVW

Every fire recorded in Ada County

Storms near this place

2 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Swan Falls in 2 storm reports between 2003 and 2007: 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
August 2007Thunderstorm WindSwan Falls-The co-op observer at the Idaho Power Station at Swan Falls reported a thunderstorm wind gust of 64 MPH.
April 2003HailSwan Falls-A low pressure system with an assocciated cold front was moving through the area.

Every storm recorded in Ada 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
Mora15.1 miles16
Owyhee15.3 miles16
Pleasant Valley15.5 miles16
Kuna17.4 miles16
Leone18.8 miles15
Orchard19.1 miles16
Blacks Creek20.5 miles16
Regina22.7 miles18

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.

Wikipedia article on Swan FallsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q121364019The 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 376284. 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.