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Swede Heaven, Washington

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1899 and the latest in 1966. It stands in the Darrington census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98223. It stands on Little French Creek. The Survey maps it on the Fortson quadrangle. 839 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 413 feet above sea level.

Swede Heaven within Snohomish County

Population over time

2 figures

Swede Heaven grew from 768 to 839 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
2010768
2020839+71 (+9%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 14 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

22 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 22 fires within 5 miles of Swede Heaven between 1992 and 2012, burning about 34 acres in total. 10 started naturally. 2 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
Natural10
Recreation and ceremony3
Arson/incendiarism2
Fireworks2
Debris and open burning2
Smoking1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
6 September 1994Smokingunder an acreMt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forestnot named
5 September 2011Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMt. Baker-Snoqualmie National ForestHUCKLEBERRY
3 September 1994Debris and open burningunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
28 September 1992Debris and open burningunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
5 August 2009Naturalunder an acreMt. Baker-Snoqualmie National ForestLUCKY
4 August 2009Naturalunder an acreMt. Baker-Snoqualmie National ForestTIMOTHY
28 August 2012Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersBARCO PIT
22 August 2010Fireworksunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersWHITEHORSE ROUND 2

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Snohomish County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 25 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 25 workings within 5 miles of Swede Heaven: 12 occurrences, 9 prospects, 2 unknowns, 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Silver, Manganese, 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
FeldtSilver, Antimony, Gold, Lead, ZincProspect
Feldt ProspectCopper, Gold, Zinc, Lead, Silver, Antimony, Arsenic, CobaltOccurrenceChalcopyrite, Cobaltite, Galena, Pyrite, Sphalerite, Stibnite, Tetrahedrite
GalbraithStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Gray MareSilver, Gold, Lead, Zinc, AntimonyProspect
Gray Mare ProspectSilver, Zinc, Gold, Copper, Lead, AntimonyOccurrenceChalcopyrite, Galena, Sphalerite
LarsonLeadProspect
Larson ProspectLead, Silver, Gold, ZincOccurrenceGalena
Lawrence ClaimsCopper, ArsenicOccurrenceBornite, Chalcopyrite, Pyrite, Tetrahedrite
SunriseGold, Copper, Lead, Silver, ZincOccurrence
Sunrise ProspectCopper, Silver, Gold, Arsenic, Molybdenum, Zinc, LeadOccurrenceChalcopyrite, Galena, Molybdenite, Pyrite, Sphalerite

Every working recorded in Snohomish 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
Fortson1.1 miles14
White Horse1.6 miles14
Tulker2.0 miles15
Barco3.0 miles14
Hazel4.3 miles15
Rowan6.6 miles15
Andron6.6 miles15
Darrington7.0 miles15

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 Swede HeavenAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6136624The 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 1526850. 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.