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Camp Swift, Texas

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Bastrop census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78602. The Survey maps it on the Lake Bastrop quadrangle. 7,943 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 440 feet above sea level.

Camp Swift within Bastrop County

Population over time

2 figures

Camp Swift grew from 6,383 to 7,943 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
20106,383
20207,943+1,560 (+24%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 16 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

437 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 437 fires within 5 miles of Camp Swift between 1992 and 2019, burning about 5,222 acres in total. 10 started naturally. 14 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 burning303
Missing data/not specified/undetermined81
Equipment and vehicle use16
Arson/incendiarism14
Natural10
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Recreation and ceremony5
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Smoking1

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
8 September 2009Natural1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceOCTOBERFEST TRAIL
7 September 2015Equipment and vehicle use6.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceOAK HILL CEMETERY RD
7 September 2008Debris and open burning3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
6 September 1998Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
4 September 2019Equipment and vehicle use4.9 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceTACO TRUCK
4 September 2008Equipment and vehicle use8.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
3 September 2002Debris and open burning8.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCENTRAL TX - 37
3 September 1999Debris and open burning5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bastrop 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
Swiftex1.6 miles16
Phelan2.8 miles16
Sayersville3.4 miles16
Circle D Estates3.8 miles17
KC Estates4.0 miles17
Pine Hills4.2 miles16
Bastrop5.7 miles17
Utley6.8 miles17

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 Camp SwiftAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q981618The 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 1867544. 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.