Swanton, Ohio

The same ground, surveyed 75 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1911 1986

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

Businesses named in the fire insurance atlases 12 of 15 shown

• Baptist ChurchChurch, in the atlas of 1908 to 1913
• Hotel SwantonHotel, in the atlas of 1908 to 1913
• Methodist Episcopal ChurchChurch, in the atlas of 1908 to 1913
• Reformed ChurchChurch, in the atlas of 1908 to 1913
• Baker, A. D. & Co., Machine WorksWorks, in the atlas of 1908
• Brick MachMachine Shop, in the atlas of 1901
• Catholie ChurchChurch, in the atlas of 1908
• L. S. & M. Passenger DepotDepot, in the atlas of 1908
• Miller HotelMill, in the atlas of 1908
• Milling Co., Flour Mill, &eFlour Mill, in the atlas of 1913
• Opera HouseOpera House, in the atlas of 1913
• Pilliod, L. L.,Flour Mill & ElevatorFlour Mill, in the atlas of 1908

Every atlas business in Fulton County

Swanton grew from 3,690 to 3,897 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.

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.

• 1911 USGS Swanton quadrangle1:62500
• 1914 USGS Swanton quadrangle1:62500
• 1956 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
• 1960 USGS Swanton quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1961 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:250000
• 1986 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 15 fires within 5 miles of Swanton between 2007 and 2016, burning about 45 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Swissaire Estates
• Brailey
• Swanton Meadows
• Ai
• Assumption
• Dutch Ridge

Every fire recorded in Fulton County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 118 specimens collected within 10 miles of Swanton between 1924 and 1975: 102 Animalia, 14 Plantae, 2 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Adams, K.; Adams, S., Conan J. Taylor, Davis, H.A.; Davis, T. and others. Each is a physical object with a catalogue number, and each entry opens the museum's record. This is what was collected and kept, not a survey of what lives here - nothing can be concluded from a species being absent.

Image	Species	Year	Collected by	Where, as recorded
	Capnodium Mont., 1849	1928	W.M. Burkett	Metamora
	Speyeria idalia (Drury, 1773)	1924	Pardon S. Remington	Swanton
	Carex tetanica Schkuhr	1925	Moseley, E.L.	NW of Neapolis
	Platanthera flava var. herbiola (R.Br.) Luer	1926	Moseley, E.L.	Engles, S of Swanton
	Aureolaria pedicularia var. ambigens (Fernald) Farw.	1927	Wherry, E.T.; Pennell, F.W.	SE of Brailey
	Calamagrostis canadensis (Michx.) P.Beauv.	1927	Moseley, E.L.	0.5 mi E of Brailey
	Carpiodes carpio (Rafinesque, 1820)	1927	MB Troutman	Bad Creek, near and at border.
	Carpiodes cyprinus (Lesueur, 1817)	1927	MB Trautman	Bad Creek, near and at border of Henry Co.
	Silene noctiflora L.	1927	Moseley, E.P.	near Swanton
	Esox vermiculatus Lesueur, 1846	1929	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)	Swan Creek, near Swanton, ~1.6 mi S of Swanton, Swan Creek township
	Fundulus notatus (Rafinesque, 1820)	1929	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)	Swan Creek, near Swanton, ~1.6 mi S of Swanton, Swan Creek township
	Notemigonus crysoleucas (Mitchill, 1814)	1929	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)	Swan Creek, near Swanton, ~1.6 mi S of Swanton, Swan Creek township

All 118 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Swanton: 2 past producers, 1 producer. 1 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.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Swanton in 13 storm reports between 1994 and 2021: 6 hail, 6 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.

Every storm recorded in Fulton County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1061667. 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.

Specimens. Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), https://www.gbif.org/. Only records licensed CC0 or CC BY are used. Records licensed CC BY-NC are excluded because this site carries advertising. Images are checked individually and any whose licence is non-commercial, no-derivatives or unreadable is refused.

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.