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Swanton, Nebraska

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Swan Creek precinct. It lies in ZIP code area 68445. The Survey maps it on the Swanton quadrangle. 82 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,352 feet above sea level.

Swanton within Saline County

Population over time

2 figures

Swanton fell from 94 to 82 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
201094
202082-12 (-13%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 10 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

6 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Swanton between 2005 and 2012, burning about 42 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
Debris and open burning4
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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 2011Equipment and vehicle use15 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
30 May 2009Power generation/transmission/distribution2.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
27 May 2005Debris and open burning7.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
12 February 2009Debris and open burningunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
30 January 2012Debris and open burning15 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
22 January 2009Debris and open burning2.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Saline County

Storms near this place

23 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Swanton in 23 storm reports between 1994 and 2023: 15 hail, 7 thunderstorm wind, 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2023Thunderstorm WindSwanton-Trained spotter reported a roof torn off of a hog barn.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindSwanton-Public reported numerous tree limbs blown down.
December 2018FloodSwanton-Numerous county roads were closed southeast of Swanton due to water over the road from Swan Creek.
May 2013Thunderstorm WindSwanton-Thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at 60 to 70 mph downed several trees and caused other tree damage in Swanton. Some of the felled trees caused vehicle and house damage.
August 2013Thunderstorm WindSwanton-Thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at over 60 mph downed several large trees across streets in Swanton which knocked the power out to around 1/2 the town.
June 2009HailSwanton-Quarter to half dollar-size hail was widespread from near Swanton to De Witt. This hail storm caused significant crop damage in Saline county, especially across the southern part. Emergency management estimated crop damages to corn, soybeans and winter wheat would run over a million dollars. The damage was most significant along a 5 mile wide swath from around Tobias to Swanton to De Witt where the ground was covered white with hail.
May 2008Thunderstorm WindSwanton-Thunderstorm winds estimated at over 60 mph destroyed several barns near Centerville and blew down a light pole and knocked down several 12 inch in diameter tree limbs, one of which fell through a porch, in the DeWitt area.
May 2008Thunderstorm WindSwanton-Thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at 60 to 70 mph caused some tree damage in Swanton.
June 2008HailSwanton-Hail up to nickel size fell for about 10 minutes.
May 2004HailSwanton-Hail up to baseball size was reported near Swanton.
May 2004Thunderstorm WindSwanton-Thunderstorm winds in excess of 60 mph caused damage near Swanton. The winds were accompanied by hail up to baseball size.
August 1994HailSwanton-Hail, up to golfball-size, damaged trees, two grain bins and 48,000 acres of crops.
June 2017HailSwanton-no account filed
June 2017HailSwanton-no account filed
June 2017HailSwanton-no account filed
June 2009HailSwanton-no account filed
April 2006HailSwanton-no account filed
April 2005HailSwanton-no account filed
April 2005HailSwanton-no account filed
May 2004HailSwanton-no account filed
April 2001HailSwanton-no account filed
June 2001HailSwanton-no account filed
June 2001HailSwanton-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Saline 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
Western6.4 miles10
De Witt8.4 miles11
Wilber9.5 miles11
Tobias13.9 miles10
Pleasant Hill14.4 miles14
Shestak14.5 miles15
Crete18.3 miles15
Dorchester18.6 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 SwantonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2467333The 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 833983. 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.

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.