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Switz City, Indiana

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1938 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Fairplay Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47465. The Survey maps it on the Switz City quadrangle. 268 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 620 feet above sea level.

Switz City within Greene County

Population over time

2 figures

Switz City fell from 293 to 268 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.

YearPeople Change
2010293
2020268-25 (-9%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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

20 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 20 fires within 5 miles of Switz City in 2008, burning about 14 acres in total. 1 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
Debris and open burning9
Recreation and ceremony5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Arson/incendiarism2
Equipment and vehicle use1
Natural1

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
25 September 2008Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
21 September 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
1 September 2008Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
3 August 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
12 August 2008Naturalunder an acreIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
13 July 2008Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
9 November 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
23 November 2008Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Greene County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Switz City: 2 producers, 1 past producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Coal. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Comet PitClay, CoalPast Producer
Bloomfield Sand & Gravel Corp.Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Greene County PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Greene County

Storms near this place

7 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Switz City in 7 storm reports between 2009 and 2025: 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 1 hail, 1 heavy rain. 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
April 2025Thunderstorm WindSwitz City$10,000At least a dozen trees in the area downed by thunderstorm wind gusts.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindSwitz City$10,000Trees, tree limbs, and power lines were reported down in Switz City due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts.
May 2010Flash FloodSwitz City$500Approximately 10 inches of water was reported over State Road 67 between Switz City and Lyons. The time of this report is estimated.
July 2010Flash FloodSwitz City$500State Road 67 was reported to be flooded in spots between Switz City and Lyons due to thunderstorm heavy rainfall.
July 2013Thunderstorm WindSwitz City-A thunderstorm wind gust estimated at 60 mph was observed in this location.
June 2009HailSwitz City-Penny-sized hail was reported at the intersection of State Route 67 and 54.
June 2009Heavy RainSwitz City-A rainfall rate of two inches per hour was reported by law enforcement.

Every storm recorded in Greene 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
Dixon2.7 miles17
Stalcup Corner3.4 miles14
Lyons3.5 miles14
Elliston4.4 miles15
Sponsler5.2 miles19
Island City5.3 miles19
Bushrod5.4 miles14
Plummer5.6 miles14

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 Switz CityAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2440919The 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 444502. 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.

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.