Swiftex, 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.

Swiftex within Bastrop County

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.

1885 USGS Bastrop quadrangle1:125000
1893 USGS Bastrop quadrangle1:125000
1904 USGS Bastrop quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
1948 USGS Bastrop quadrangle1:62500
1950 USGS Bastrop quadrangle1:62500
1954 USGS Austin quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1982 USGS Lake Bastrop quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1985 USGS Austin quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings

Fires near this place

351 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 351 fires within 5 miles of Swiftex between 1992 and 2019, burning about 5,290 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 8 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 burning	248
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	63
Equipment and vehicle use	14
Arson/incendiarism	8
Natural	8
Recreation and ceremony	5
Misuse of fire by a minor	3
Smoking	1
Other causes	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
8 September 2009	Natural	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	OCTOBERFEST TRAIL
7 September 2015	Equipment and vehicle use	6.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	OAK HILL CEMETERY RD
4 September 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	4.9 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	TACO TRUCK
4 September 2008	Equipment and vehicle use	8.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
3 September 2002	Debris and open burning	8.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	CENTRAL TX - 37
3 September 1999	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
22 September 2005	Debris and open burning	50 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	CENTRAL TX - 23
20 September 2008	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	not 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Camp Swift	1.6 miles	16
Sayersville	1.9 miles	16
Phelan	3.3 miles	16
Circle D Estates	5.4 miles	17
KC Estates	5.5 miles	17
Pine Hills	5.7 miles	16
Utley	5.9 miles	17
Bastrop	6.6 miles	17

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 Swiftex	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q112912253	The 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 2034781. 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.