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.
Population over time
2 figuresSwanton 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 94 | |
| 2020 | 82 | -12 (-13%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 10 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.
- 1955 USGS Lincoln quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
- 1957 USGS Lincoln quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Lincoln quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Swanton quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Fairbury quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
6 since 2005Regional 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 burning | 4 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29 September 2011 | Equipment and vehicle use | 15 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 30 May 2009 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 27 May 2005 | Debris and open burning | 7.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 12 February 2009 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 30 January 2012 | Debris and open burning | 15 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 22 January 2009 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
23 since 1994Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Swanton | - | Trained spotter reported a roof torn off of a hog barn. |
| June 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Swanton | - | Public reported numerous tree limbs blown down. |
| December 2018 | Flood | Swanton | - | Numerous county roads were closed southeast of Swanton due to water over the road from Swan Creek. |
| May 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Swanton | - | 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 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Swanton | - | 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 2009 | Hail | Swanton | - | 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 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Swanton | - | 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 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Swanton | - | Thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at 60 to 70 mph caused some tree damage in Swanton. |
| June 2008 | Hail | Swanton | - | Hail up to nickel size fell for about 10 minutes. |
| May 2004 | Hail | Swanton | - | Hail up to baseball size was reported near Swanton. |
| May 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Swanton | - | Thunderstorm winds in excess of 60 mph caused damage near Swanton. The winds were accompanied by hail up to baseball size. |
| August 1994 | Hail | Swanton | - | Hail, up to golfball-size, damaged trees, two grain bins and 48,000 acres of crops. |
| June 2017 | Hail | Swanton | - | no account filed |
| June 2017 | Hail | Swanton | - | no account filed |
| June 2017 | Hail | Swanton | - | no account filed |
| June 2009 | Hail | Swanton | - | no account filed |
| April 2006 | Hail | Swanton | - | no account filed |
| April 2005 | Hail | Swanton | - | no account filed |
| April 2005 | Hail | Swanton | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Hail | Swanton | - | no account filed |
| April 2001 | Hail | Swanton | - | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Hail | Swanton | - | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Hail | Swanton | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Western | 6.4 miles | 10 | |
| De Witt | 8.4 miles | 11 | |
| Wilber | 9.5 miles | 11 | |
| Tobias | 13.9 miles | 10 | |
| Pleasant Hill | 14.4 miles | 14 | |
| Shestak | 14.5 miles | 15 | |
| Crete | 18.3 miles | 15 | |
| Dorchester | 18.6 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 Swanton | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2467333 | 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 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.




