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Swartz Creek, Michigan

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1922 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Swartz Creek City. It lies in ZIP code area 48473. The Survey maps it on the Swartz Creek quadrangle. 5,897 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 771 feet above sea level.

Swartz Creek within Genesee County

On record in Swartz Creek

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 3 records

Population over time

2 figures

Swartz Creek grew from 5,758 to 5,897 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
20105,758
20205,897+139 (+2%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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

14 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Swartz Creek between 2018 and 2019, burning about 14 acres in total. None started naturally. None was 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
Equipment and vehicle use8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Debris and open burning1

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
14 August 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesFLINT TOWNSHIP FD 1800497 - 2018
26 July 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMUNDY TOWNSHIP FD 2019216 - 2019
19 July 2018Debris and open burning1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesGAINES TOWNSHIP FD 0000169 - 2018
2 May 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesFLINT TOWNSHIP FD 1900269 - 2019
9 April 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesGAINES TOWNSHIP FD 0000084 - 2019
9 April 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesSWARTZ CREEK AREA FD 0000036 - 2019
9 April 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesSWARTZ CREEK AREA FD 0000037 - 2019
8 April 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMUNDY TOWNSHIP FD 2019098 - 2019

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Genesee County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Swartz Creek: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Holloway Sand & Gravel Co., Inc PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Genesee County

Storms near this place

23 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Swartz Creek in 23 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 17 thunderstorm wind, 6 hail. 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
June 2011Thunderstorm WindSwartz Creek$20,000Many large trees blown down across roads and houses.
June 2000Thunderstorm WindSwartz Creek$3,000no account filed
March 2025Thunderstorm WindSwartz Creek-Trees uprooted.
July 2019Thunderstorm WindSwartz Creek-Small tree branches and wires reported blown down. A large tree also fell onto two houses.
August 2015Thunderstorm WindSwartz Creek-Wires reported down.
June 2007Thunderstorm WindSwartz Creek-Law enforcement reported two trees 4 feet in diameter down.
July 2007Thunderstorm WindSwartz Creek-Law enforcement reported several large trees down.
October 2007Thunderstorm WindSwartz Creek-A trained spotter estimated wind gusts at 60 to 65 mph.
February 2006Thunderstorm WindSwartz Creek-Downburst winds took down 15 trees and power lines which blocked Ried and Morrish Roads.
July 2006Thunderstorm WindSwartz Creek-Trained spotter reported a tree blown down.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindSwartz Creek-A trained spotter estimated a 65 mph thunderstorm wind gust.
May 2004Thunderstorm WindSwartz Creek-A trained weather spotter reported trees blown down.
July 2004Thunderstorm WindSwartz Creek-A trained weather spotter estimated a 60 mph thunderstorm wind gust.
April 1994Thunderstorm WindSwartz Creek-Skywarn spotters reported a 60 mph wind gust in a thunderstorm over Swartz Creek.
July 2012HailSwartz Creek-no account filed
June 2011Thunderstorm WindSwartz Creek-no account filed
May 2009HailSwartz Creek-no account filed
August 2003HailSwartz Creek-no account filed
August 2003HailSwartz Creek-no account filed
August 2000HailSwartz Creek-no account filed
June 1999HailSwartz Creek-no account filed
May 1999Thunderstorm WindSwartz Creek-no account filed
June 1997Thunderstorm WindSwartz Creek-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Genesee 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
Duffield4.7 miles13
Rankin5.2 miles13
Gaines7.3 miles14
Flushing7.4 miles14
Flint8.5 miles16
Bayport Park9.3 miles14
Whigville9.6 miles14
Lake Fenton10.1 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 Swartz CreekAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2200776The 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 1614476. 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.