Swartz Corner, Idaho

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1898 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Nampa census division. It lies in ZIP code area 83686. It lies near Madden Butte. The Survey maps it on the Nampa quadrangle.

Swartz Corner within Canyon County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 14 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.

1898 USGS Nampa quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
1955 USGS Boise quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Boise quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Nampa quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1962 USGS Boise quadrangle1:250000
1981 USGS Boise quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

24 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 24 fires within 5 miles of Swartz Corner between 1992 and 2017, burning about 252 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 12 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/incendiarism	12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6
Fireworks	3
Natural	2
Debris and open burning	1

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

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
28 September 2003	Arson/incendiarism	6.0 acres	Deer Flat National Wildlife Refuge	QUAIL 1
23 August 1998	Arson/incendiarism	1.5 acres	Deer Flat National Wildlife Refuge	CARTER
23 August 1996	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Deer Flat National Wildlife Refuge	LAKESHORE
17 August 1996	Arson/incendiarism	1.5 acres	Deer Flat National Wildlife Refuge	RYE PATCH
15 August 2006	Natural	105 acres	Deer Flat National Wildlife Refuge	CCLIGHTNING
4 July 1994	Fireworks	under an acre	Deer Flat National Wildlife Refuge	ROCKET
28 July 2000	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Deer Flat National Wildlife Refuge	GOTTS PT
2 July 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Deer Flat National Wildlife Refuge	GREBE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Canyon County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 18 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 18 workings within 5 miles of Swartz Corner: 11 unknowns, 6 producers, 1 occurrence. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Volcanic Materials. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Cinder Deposit	Volcanic Materials	Occurrence
Leland Freiberghaus Cinder Pit	Volcanic Materials	Producer	Surface
Bowman Sand and Gravel Co.	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Bryon C Rambo Crushing, Co Inc	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown

Every working recorded in Canyon 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Deal	0.8 miles	14
Kings Corner	1.6 miles	14
Tiegs Corner	2.3 miles	14
Nampa	2.8 miles	14
Bowmont	3.2 miles	15
Westma	5.9 miles	15
Karcher Junction	6.4 miles	14
Fischer	8.3 miles	14

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 Q122598379

The 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 397228. 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.