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History · Swartz

Swartz’s post office opened in 1892

More historic than 17% of U.S. towns · #118 of 161 in Louisiana. What drives it

Most of Swartz was built recently: 3% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1987. Below: maps from 1935 on and the census since 1990.

1892first post office
0on the National Register
3%homes built before 1940
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Photo: Timothy Holdiness · CC BY-SA 4.0
Quick answers

How Swartz began

When was Swartz founded?

1892

The Swartz post office opened in 1892, the earliest record of the town by name.

First census: 3,698 in 19902020 census: 4,354134 years

How historic is Swartz?

C−

More historic than 17% of U.S. towns, on its age, its old homes and the National Register.

What drives the grade ↓
Founding year: the first Swartz post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).The full story ↓
History grade

What drives Swartz’s History grade

On its age, its old homes and the National Register, Swartz is more historic than 17% of U.S. towns, #118 of 161 in Louisiana. Its age holds the grade up; its share of homes from before 1940 pulls it down.

C−
HistoryA character grade: shown, never part of Swartz’s overall grade.
Founding era1892, from the first post office: founded 1850–1899, an older era than 37% of U.S. townsC+Homes built before 19402.7% of homes (±2.9) · typical LA town 3.4% · U.S. 8.4%C−National RegisterNo listings counted · typical LA town 3.8 per 10,000 · U.S. 2.4C−
All U.S. towns we grade (21,289)Ahead of 17%
NewerOlder
Louisiana towns of 2,500+ (161)Ahead of 27%

Louisiana towns list more on the Register than most of the country (a typical Louisiana town has 3.8 per 10,000 residents, the U.S. 2.4), so Swartz’s 0.0 sits below most of its state (21% of Louisiana towns have fewer) while its 0 listings outnumber those of 23% of U.S. towns.

How sure. Graded on any two of the three inputs instead, the letter would range from D to C−. The pre-1940 share (±2.9 points) is firm at this size. The founding year is the first post office, not a stated founding date.

Founding year: the first post office (other dates in Quick answers). Homes: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register: National Park Service, May 2026 list; each listing counted once (boundary changes and added documentation belong to their listing), and a historic district counts its contributing buildings. How TownRatings grades history →

What stands out about Swartz’s past

Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.

A history waiting to be writtenNo old photos of Swartz are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Lost villages7 hamlets and corners are still on the map.
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Start Swartz’s collection

The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Swartz’s history is told.

Decades since 1900 with photos
00s10s20s30s40s50s60s70s80s90s
0 of 10 decades. The empty ones are waiting for someone’s album.
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Places that used to be

Old corners and burying grounds

Swartz’s post office has been open since 1892.

Hamlets and corners on the map
Audubon ParkCounty AcresEastwood EstatesHidden OaksLakewood EstatesQuail Creek EstatesShenandoah
2cemeteries and burying grounds inside Swartz
CosperSpring Hill

US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).

The story

How Swartz came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of Swartz.

Read it all →

Swartz began as the site of the Swartz Sawmill, owned by the E. G. Swartz Company Ltd., as well as The Swartz & Ouachita City Railroad.

Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

By decade

Swartz, decade by decade

Today24 recent
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On the map

Swartz on the map, 1935 to 1994

Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Swartz. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.

Swartz on the 1935 USGS mapSwartz on the 1957 USGS mapSwartz on the 1982 USGS mapSwartz on the 1994 USGS map1935Collinston sheet · 1:62,500

U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Swartz.

People over time

Swartz, census by census

05001,0001,5002,0002,5003,0003,5004,0004,5005,00020002020Peak: 4,536

Between 3,698 and 4,536 people in every census since 1990.

4 censuses, 1990–2020.

U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Swartz’s Wikipedia page.

Famous people

Famous people close to Swartz

Nobody well known was born in Swartz itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.

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Bill RussellAmerican basketball player · b. 1934
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Ronnie ColemanAmerican IFBB professional bodybuilder · b. 1964
Tim McGrawAmerican country singer and actor · b. 1967
Huey P. NewtonCo-founder of the Black Panther Party · b. 1942
Earl HollimanAmerican actor · b. 1928
Paul MillsapAmerican basketball player · b. 1985

Questions about Swartz’s history

What year was Swartz founded?

The Swartz post office opened in 1892, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).

How does Swartz rank for history?

Swartz is more historic than 17% of U.S. towns, #118 of 161 in Louisiana. The History grade combines the town’s founding era, the share of homes built before 1940 and its National Register listings. It’s a character grade, so it isn’t part of the overall grade. How it works.

How old are the homes in Swartz?

3% of Swartz’s homes were built before 1940 (Census estimate, ±2.9 points), against a typical 3.4% for a Louisiana town; the median home was built in 1987.

Memory lane

What the archives can’t tell you, neighbors can.

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Sources

Where this page comes from

Founding dates: Wikidata, Wikipedia, the U.S. post office records of Blevins & Helbock (CC0) and the Census. Homes by year built: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register of Historic Places: National Park Service (list of May 22, 2026). Old photos, postcards and papers: Wikimedia Commons, the Library of Congress and other public archives, credited on each item’s page. Maps: U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (via Esri) and Sanborn fire-insurance maps (Library of Congress). History text and census tables: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Places that used to be: USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).

From Wikimedia Commons (24), Wikipedia, U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, U.S. Census counts (via Wikipedia), the US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock) and the USGS Geographic Names Information System. Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.