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Swink, Oklahoma

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Fort Towson census division. It lies in ZIP code area 74761. The Survey maps it on the Swink quadrangle. 65 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 492 feet above sea level.

Swink within Choctaw County

On record in Swink

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 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Swink fell from 66 to 65 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
201066
202065-1 (-2%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 17 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

70 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 70 fires within 5 miles of Swink between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,886 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 34 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
Arson/incendiarism34
Missing data/not specified/undetermined14
Debris and open burning12
Natural3
Equipment and vehicle use3
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
9 September 1999Equipment and vehicle use20 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
27 September 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
26 September 2004Arson/incendiarism28 acresOklahoma Division of Forestry10359
2 September 2000Arson/incendiarism40 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
16 September 2006Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreOklahoma Division of Forestry10539
3 August 2008Arson/incendiarismunder an acreOklahoma Division of Forestry10267
29 August 2010Arson/incendiarismunder an acreOklahoma Division of Forestry10207
28 August 2010Misuse of fire by a minor30 acresOklahoma Division of Forestry10192

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Choctaw 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 Swink: 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
Unknown Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Choctaw County

Storms near this place

10 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Swink in 10 storm reports between 2007 and 2023: 5 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash 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
June 2023Thunderstorm WindSwink-Strong thunderstorm wind blew down a tree onto the N 4420 Road.
May 2022Thunderstorm WindSwink-Strong thunderstorm wind blew down a large tree onto Highway 70.
October 2014Thunderstorm WindSwink-Strong thunderstorm wind blew down large tree limbs.
May 2009Flash FloodSwink-Heavy rain caused water to flow over a county road northeast of Swink.
May 2007Thunderstorm WindSwink-Thunderstorm winds estimated at 70 miles an hour blew down a few trees.
April 2017HailSwink-no account filed
May 2010HailSwink-no account filed
May 2010HailSwink-no account filed
January 2010HailSwink-no account filed
May 2009HailSwink-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Choctaw 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
Fort Towson3.4 miles15
West Fort Towson3.8 miles15
Huskey6.4 miles10
Sawyer9.0 miles15
High Hill9.5 miles15
Frogville10.2 miles10
Virgil10.2 miles15
Fallon11.5 miles9

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 SwinkAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2915144The 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 1098700. 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.