Swearingen, Texas

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Paducah North census division. It lies in ZIP code area 79248. The Survey maps it on the Swearingen quadrangle.

Swearingen within Cottle County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 7 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.

1954 USGS Plainview quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Plainview quadrangle1:250000
1967 USGS Swearingen quadrangle1:24000
1986 USGS Childress quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

9 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Swearingen between 2008 and 2017, burning about 2,359 acres in total. 8 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
Natural	8
Recreation and ceremony	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
2 September 2010	Natural	40 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	TRIANGLE RANCH FIRE
8 August 2008	Natural	40 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
18 August 2012	Natural	30 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASSFIRE - KEVIN HOLLEY PLACE
9 June 2011	Natural	1,502 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	BURDETT FIRE
8 June 2011	Natural	530 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	TRIANGLE RANCH FIRE
16 June 2008	Natural	200 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
15 May 2017	Natural	15 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	GILBERT RANCH FIRE
30 April 2012	Natural	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASSFIRE FM2532

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cottle County

Storms near this place

13 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Swearingen in 13 storm reports between 1993 and 2023: 8 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. 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
April 2006	Hail	Swearingen	$15,000	Hail up to the size of half dollars was reported in Swearingen. The hail, accompanied by very heavy rainfall, damaged the interior of an exposed ranch home that was undergoing roof repair.
May 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Swearingen	$10,000	Two power poles were downed in Swearingen.
April 2008	Hail	Swearingen	$10,000	The public reported golfball size hail in Swearingen. At least one home received minor roof damage.
May 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Swearingen	$5,000	Strong thunderstorm wind blew the roof off a barn and damaged a home.
May 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Swearingen	-	A storm chaser reported a wind gust of 58 mph using a handheld anemometer.
April 2010	Tornado (EF0)	Swearingen	-	Numerous storm chasers and Skywarn spotters reported witnessing an intermittent tornado near Swearingen shortly after 20:00 CST on the 22nd. Post-storm surveys by National Weather Service meteorologists did not reveal significant damage in the area, however, the number of eyewitness reports coupled with Doppler radar presentations of the parent supercell lend credibility to the presence of a tornado.
April 2006	Hail	Swearingen	-	The public reported nickel size hail in Swearingen as a second severe storm impacted the eastern portions of Cottle County.
May 2002	Hail	Swearingen	-	Storm spotters reported hail larger than golfball size.
June 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Swearingen	-	Strong thunderstorm winds estimated at 60 to 70 mph were reported at Portwood Ranch.
April 1994	Hail	Swearingen	-	Early morning severe thunderstorms formed over the South Plains. These were caused by a cold front moving toward the area from the north, a retreating dryline, and an upper level disturbance approaching from the southwest. One-inch diameter hail fell at Lubbock International Airport, and an off-duty National Weather Service employee reported one-inch diameter hail in Shallowater. Crosby County Sheriff's Office reported dime-size hail in Ralls and Crosbyton at 0416 CST. Dickens County Sheriff's Office reported power lines down about one mile north of Spur. Minor wind damage to portable buildings was reported in Guthrie at 0535 CST by the King County Sheriff's Office.
October 1993	Hail	Swearingen	-	Golfball-size hail was reported in Swearingen at 1715 CST.
July 2002	Hail	Swearingen	-	no account filed
June 1998	Hail	Swearingen	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Cottle 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Baker	4.1 miles	8
Ogden	4.2 miles	8
Jacobs (historical)	5.9 miles	8
Dunlap	7.9 miles	8
Paducah	12.5 miles	8
Coleyville	13.6 miles	8
Hackberry	14.9 miles	8
Valley View	16.4 miles	8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1380633. 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.