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Swift, Texas

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Chireno-Martinsville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75961. It stands on Campground Creek. The Survey maps it on the Melrose quadrangle. It stands 515 feet above sea level.

Swift within Nacogdoches County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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

37 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 37 fires within 5 miles of Swift between 1993 and 2019, burning about 275 acres in total. 1 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
Debris and open burning22
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Equipment and vehicle use3
Smoking3
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Natural1

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
5 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON-7122
4 September 2000Equipment and vehicle use50 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 467
27 September 2002Debris and open burning7.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 220
21 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON-7138
2 September 2000Equipment and vehicle use6.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 448
2 September 2000Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 449
17 September 2007Debris and open burning4.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
17 September 2007Debris and open burning5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Nacogdoches County

Storms near this place

5 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Swift in 5 storm reports between 1997 and 2021: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 1 flash flood. The reports record 1 injury. 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
October 1997Thunderstorm WindSwift1 hurtNumerous trees were toppled along CR 331. A car ran into a tree that fell across the highway causing injury to the occupant.
April 2019Thunderstorm WindSwift$50,000Damaging straight line winds estimated to be near 100 mph were found intermittently along a path from south of Nacogdoches to west-northwest of the Martinsville community. The greatest concentration of damage was near the intersection of County Road 239 and FM 2713, where approximately 50 trees were snapped or uprooted, the roof of a chicken house was removed, one home sustained roof damage, and another home had their windows broken from flying debris.
April 2021HailSwift-Quarter size hail fell near the Shady Grove community east of Nacogdoches.
May 2021Flash FloodSwift-County Road 317 was closed due to flooding.
August 2009Thunderstorm WindSwift-Trees were downed in the Swift Community.

Every storm recorded in Nacogdoches 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
Shady Grove2.8 miles12
Martinsville4.0 miles11
Melrose4.1 miles11
Oak Ridge4.6 miles12
Cedar Point5.8 miles11
Pisgah6.3 miles12
Plainview7.7 miles12
Attoyac7.9 miles11

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.

Wikidata item Q130311577The 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 1380634. 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.