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Swenson, Texas

6 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Aspermont North census division. It lies in ZIP code area 79502. The Survey maps it on the Swenson quadrangle.

Swenson within Stonewall County

Topographic sheets covering this place

3 surveys from 6 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

24 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 24 fires within 5 miles of Swenson between 2005 and 2018, burning about 452 acres in total. 3 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined11
Debris and open burning5
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Natural3
Equipment and vehicle use2

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
3 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBARDITCH GRASS FIRE
22 September 2008Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
21 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHIGH LINE CROSS ARM FIRE
31 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCOMANCHE RIDGE RANCH(REKINDLE)
7 July 2006Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
4 July 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
10 July 2008Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
5 June 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServicePOSSIBLE MCMEANS FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Stonewall County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Swenson: 3 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Copper. 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
Martindale-1CopperOccurrence
Maury-1CopperOccurrence
Wilde-1CopperOccurrence

Every working recorded in Stonewall County

Storms near this place

11 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Swenson in 11 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 9 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind. 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
April 2003HailSwenson$50,000The Stonewall County Sheriff's Office reported baseball size hail.
April 2000HailSwenson$50,000no account filed
July 2008Thunderstorm WindSwenson$20,000The broadcast media relayed reports of thunderstorm wind damage to a farmstead in western Stonewall County during the evening of the 12th. A hay barn was destroyed and a grain silo sustained minor damage along U.S. Highway 82 west of Swenson. Event times are estimated based on archived Doppler radar imagery.
May 1994Thunderstorm WindSwenson$5,000no account filed
April 2025HailSwenson-A report was received on mPing of ping pong ball size hail near Swenson.
April 2024HailSwenson-A report from mPING was received of quarter size hail just south of the King County / Stonewall County line along US Highway 83.
August 2019HailSwenson-The Sheriff's Office in Stonewall County reported quarter size hail along US Highway 83 north of Aspermont.
April 1993HailSwenson-Dime- to golf ball-size hail was reported in northern Stonewall County. No significant damage was observed.
June 2025HailSwenson-no account filed
April 2003HailSwenson-no account filed
June 2003HailSwenson-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Stonewall 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
Peacock4.9 miles6
Aspermont6.8 miles8
Double Mountain7.1 miles6
Oriana (historical)7.3 miles6
Geneview9.2 miles7
Sandlin10.6 miles9
Old Glory14.6 miles9
Red Bluff Crossing15.2 miles15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1369480. 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.