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.
Population over time
2 figuresSwede 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 768 | |
| 2020 | 839 | +71 (+9%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 14 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1899 USGS Stillaguamish quadrangle1:125000
- 1901 USGS Stilaguamish quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
- 1901 USGS Stillaguamish quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
- 1955 USGS Concrete quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Concrete quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1962 USGS Concrete quadrangle1:250000
- 1966 USGS Fortson quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
Fires near this place
22 since 1992Regional 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 |
|---|---|
| Natural | 10 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 3 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
| Fireworks | 2 |
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 September 1994 | Smoking | under an acre | Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest | not named |
| 5 September 2011 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest | HUCKLEBERRY |
| 3 September 1994 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
| 28 September 1992 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
| 5 August 2009 | Natural | under an acre | Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest | LUCKY |
| 4 August 2009 | Natural | under an acre | Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest | TIMOTHY |
| 28 August 2012 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | BARCO PIT |
| 22 August 2010 | Fireworks | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | WHITEHORSE ROUND 2 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 25 shownRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feldt | Silver, Antimony, Gold, Lead, Zinc | Prospect | ||
| Feldt Prospect | Copper, Gold, Zinc, Lead, Silver, Antimony, Arsenic, Cobalt | Occurrence | Chalcopyrite, Cobaltite, Galena, Pyrite, Sphalerite, Stibnite, Tetrahedrite | |
| Galbraith | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Gray Mare | Silver, Gold, Lead, Zinc, Antimony | Prospect | ||
| Gray Mare Prospect | Silver, Zinc, Gold, Copper, Lead, Antimony | Occurrence | Chalcopyrite, Galena, Sphalerite | |
| Larson | Lead | Prospect | ||
| Larson Prospect | Lead, Silver, Gold, Zinc | Occurrence | Galena | |
| Lawrence Claims | Copper, Arsenic | Occurrence | Bornite, Chalcopyrite, Pyrite, Tetrahedrite | |
| Sunrise | Gold, Copper, Lead, Silver, Zinc | Occurrence | ||
| Sunrise Prospect | Copper, Silver, Gold, Arsenic, Molybdenum, Zinc, Lead | Occurrence | Chalcopyrite, Galena, Molybdenite, Pyrite, Sphalerite |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fortson | 1.1 miles | 14 | |
| White Horse | 1.6 miles | 14 | |
| Tulker | 2.0 miles | 15 | |
| Barco | 3.0 miles | 14 | |
| Hazel | 4.3 miles | 15 | |
| Rowan | 6.6 miles | 15 | |
| Andron | 6.6 miles | 15 | |
| Darrington | 7.0 miles | 15 |
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 Heaven | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q6136624 | 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 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.






