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Swift, Minnesota

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1918 and the latest in 1976. It stands in Moranville Township. It lies in ZIP code area 56763. The Survey maps it on the Swift quadrangle. It stands 1,083 feet above sea level.

Swift within Roseau County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 9 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

97 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 97 fires within 5 miles of Swift between 1993 and 2020, burning about 935 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 29 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 burning41
Arson/incendiarism29
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Railroad operations and maintenance4
Equipment and vehicle use3
Natural3
Other causes2
Recreation and ceremony2
Smoking2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
29 September 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
28 September 2018Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
31 August 1996Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 August 2000Smokingunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
22 August 2011Other causes2.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 July 2006Debris and open burning18 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 July 2006Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Roseau 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 Swift: 1 producer. All of them still produce. 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
Holland Pit and Mill No. 2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Roseau County

Storms near this place

10 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Swift in 10 storm reports between 1995 and 2020: 4 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 1 funnel cloud. 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
July 2008HailSwift$5,000Several large tree branches were also blown down.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindSwift-The wind gust was measured by a personal weather station.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindSwift-A large number of trees were severely damaged across northern Laona Township. Mature pine trees were snapped off midway up.
June 2009Funnel CloudSwift-A funnel cloud was reported south of Warroad.
August 2006Tornado (F0)Swift-Tornado number three of a series appeared to have had an intermittent track for nearly 8 miles and ended in Lake of the Woods county. Debris fallout from the Warroad area was noted along an east by southeast path along with large broken tree branches and swirled crop swathes. Peak winds were estimated at 70 mph.
July 2002Tornado (F0)Swift-A tornado touchdown was reported by the Roseau sheriff's office.
July 1995Thunderstorm WindSwift-Tree Damage.
August 2013HailSwift-no account filed
June 2012HailSwift-no account filed
April 2010HailSwift-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Roseau 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
North Star Court6.1 miles10
Warroad6.1 miles10
Roosevelt7.4 miles9
Roosevelt Park7.4 miles9
Longworth11.7 miles10
Enstrom Estates18.5 miles8
Salol18.5 miles8
Winner21.1 miles6

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 SwiftAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7655983The 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 652953. 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.