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.
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
Bloss, Frank D., and Sons Farm Houselisted 1982
Jesse H. Buck Farm Houselisted 1982
Gilbert, Horace/Morgan and Enos Miller Houselisted 1982
Population over time
2 figuresSwartz 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 5,758 | |
| 2020 | 5,897 | +139 (+2%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 13 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.
- 1922 USGS Durand quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
- 1943 USGS Durand quadrangle1:62500
- 1954 USGS Detroit quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Detroit quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1965 USGS Detroit quadrangle1:250000
- 1969 USGS Swartz Creek quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Pontiac quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
14 since 2018Regional 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 use | 8 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14 August 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | FLINT TOWNSHIP FD 1800497 - 2018 |
| 26 July 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | MUNDY TOWNSHIP FD 2019216 - 2019 |
| 19 July 2018 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | GAINES TOWNSHIP FD 0000169 - 2018 |
| 2 May 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | FLINT TOWNSHIP FD 1900269 - 2019 |
| 9 April 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | GAINES TOWNSHIP FD 0000084 - 2019 |
| 9 April 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | SWARTZ CREEK AREA FD 0000036 - 2019 |
| 9 April 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | SWARTZ CREEK AREA FD 0000037 - 2019 |
| 8 April 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | MUNDY TOWNSHIP FD 2019098 - 2019 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Holloway Sand & Gravel Co., Inc Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
23 since 1994Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Swartz Creek | $20,000 | Many large trees blown down across roads and houses. |
| June 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Swartz Creek | $3,000 | no account filed |
| March 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Swartz Creek | - | Trees uprooted. |
| July 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Swartz Creek | - | Small tree branches and wires reported blown down. A large tree also fell onto two houses. |
| August 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Swartz Creek | - | Wires reported down. |
| June 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Swartz Creek | - | Law enforcement reported two trees 4 feet in diameter down. |
| July 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Swartz Creek | - | Law enforcement reported several large trees down. |
| October 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Swartz Creek | - | A trained spotter estimated wind gusts at 60 to 65 mph. |
| February 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Swartz Creek | - | Downburst winds took down 15 trees and power lines which blocked Ried and Morrish Roads. |
| July 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Swartz Creek | - | Trained spotter reported a tree blown down. |
| June 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Swartz Creek | - | A trained spotter estimated a 65 mph thunderstorm wind gust. |
| May 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Swartz Creek | - | A trained weather spotter reported trees blown down. |
| July 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Swartz Creek | - | A trained weather spotter estimated a 60 mph thunderstorm wind gust. |
| April 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Swartz Creek | - | Skywarn spotters reported a 60 mph wind gust in a thunderstorm over Swartz Creek. |
| July 2012 | Hail | Swartz Creek | - | no account filed |
| June 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Swartz Creek | - | no account filed |
| May 2009 | Hail | Swartz Creek | - | no account filed |
| August 2003 | Hail | Swartz Creek | - | no account filed |
| August 2003 | Hail | Swartz Creek | - | no account filed |
| August 2000 | Hail | Swartz Creek | - | no account filed |
| June 1999 | Hail | Swartz Creek | - | no account filed |
| May 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Swartz Creek | - | no account filed |
| June 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Swartz Creek | - | 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.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Duffield | 4.7 miles | 13 | |
| Rankin | 5.2 miles | 13 | |
| Gaines | 7.3 miles | 14 | |
| Flushing | 7.4 miles | 14 | |
| Flint | 8.5 miles | 16 | |
| Bayport Park | 9.3 miles | 14 | |
| Whigville | 9.6 miles | 14 | |
| Lake Fenton | 10.1 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.
| Wikipedia article on Swartz Creek | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2200776 | 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 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.






