Swayzee, Indiana
10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Sims Township. It lies in ZIP code area 46986. The Survey maps it on the Sweetser quadrangle. 918 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 860 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresSwayzee fell from 981 to 918 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 981 | |
| 2020 | 918 | -63 (-6%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 10 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1953 USGS Muncie quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
- 1956 USGS Muncie quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Sweetser quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Wabash quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1992 USGS Sweetser quadrangle1:24000
In the county-history sources
6,667 words on this townshipThe county-history sources names this settlement in its chapter on Sims Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.
Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.
Read the whole chapter on Sims Township - it names this place 6 more 6 times.
Mines and quarries near this place
2 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Swayzee: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pipe Creek Jr. Pit | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Pipe Creek Stone Co. Pit | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer |
Storms near this place
21 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Swayzee in 21 storm reports between 1998 and 2023: 10 thunderstorm wind, 7 hail, 3 tornado, 1 flood. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 1998 | Tornado (F1) | Swayzee | $500,000 | THIS TORNADO WAS A CONTINUATION OF THE GREENTOWN TORNADO IN HOWARD COUNTY. THE TORNADO WAS WEAKENING AS IT CROSSED INTO GRANT COUNTY BUT CAUSED EXTENSIVE TREE DAMAGE ALONG ITS PATH AND SEVERLY DAMAGED SEVERAL HOMES IN SWAYZEE. MANY OF THE HOMES SUFFERED DAMAGE FROM UPROOTED TREES FALLING ON THEM. MANY TREES AND POWER LINES WERE REPORTED DOWN FROM THIS SERIES OF STORMS. IN ADDITION...VERY HEAVY RAIN CAUSED FLASH FLOODING ACROSS THE COUNTY WITH MANY COUNTY ROADS WASHED OUT OR UNDER WATER. |
| June 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Swayzee | $10,000 | Power lines down. |
| March 2023 | Tornado (EF2) | Swayzee | - | This tornado developed just south of 300 S west of Swayzee and tracked rapidly|east through downtown Swayzee, ending just east of 600 W east of town. Numerous|homes and building sustained minor to moderate damage including roof damage to |several businesses and the high school. Numerous trees and power poles in and|around town were snapped or uprooted. |
| June 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Swayzee | - | Roof damage with a dozen or so shingles bent or missing. |
| June 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Swayzee | - | The public reported roof damage to a home with a dozen or so shingles bent or missing. |
| June 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Swayzee | - | Multiple large trees and branches downed. A tree fell onto a house with another onto a camper. |
| May 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Swayzee | - | Local law enforcement reported a large tree snapped in half and a utility pole damaged. |
| June 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Swayzee | - | Trained spotters reported trees and power lines down in the area. |
| November 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Swayzee | - | A trained spotter estimated wind gusts to 85 mph along with quarter size hail. |
| August 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Swayzee | - | A trained spotter reported a 66 mph wind gust. |
| June 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Swayzee | - | Trees and power lines down. |
| June 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Swayzee | - | Emergency management officials reported numerous trees down with winds estimated as high as 70 mph in the Swayzee area. |
| July 2003 | Tornado (F0) | Swayzee | - | Law enforcement and emergency management reported a short lived F0 tornado that skipped from near Swayzee to 2 miles east of Swayzee. The tornado was over corn fields during its existence. |
| July 2001 | Flood | Swayzee | - | Stalled cars due to high water on SR 13 north of Swayzee and at intersection of SR 26. |
| March 2006 | Hail | Swayzee | - | no account filed |
| November 2005 | Hail | Swayzee | - | no account filed |
| May 2000 | Hail | Swayzee | - | no account filed |
| August 2000 | Hail | Swayzee | - | no account filed |
| August 2000 | Hail | Swayzee | - | no account filed |
| August 2000 | Hail | Swayzee | - | no account filed |
| July 1998 | Hail | Swayzee | - | no account filed |
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.
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 Swayzee | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2587400 | 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 444475. 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.
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.
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.




