The city motto is "Where Friendships Last Forever", selected by the city council in 2018 source
Community character
Flint suburb in Genesee County that grew from the 1836 Miller Settlement, took its post office name from the creek in 1842, and incorporated as a city on December 1, 1959 source
Swartz Creek Hometown Days
Annual community festival with carnival rides, a mobile petting zoo, a car show, and an inclusive night for people with disabilities source
Cosmos In the Creek
One mile scale model of the solar system that starts at the sun station at Elms Park and ends at the Neptune station at Otterburn Park source
Swartz Creek Historical Society mini-museum
City hall mini-museum run by the historical society established in 1976, which also sponsors an annual June cemetery tour source
Abrams Park
Formerly Winshall Park, with baseball, soccer and softball fields, basketball, volleyball, pickleball and tennis courts, and winter sledding source
Elms Park
Sole host of the area dog park and youth athletic programming, with a winter ice skating pond and a location on the Genesee Valley Trail source
Miller Settlement
Original community founded in June 1836 by German settler Adam Miller and his family of eleven children in what was then Flint Township source
Otterburn
Former Flint Township community of about 150 residents named for otters seen on Swartz Creek, with a train depot that opened in 1882 source
Winchester Village
Subdivision built on a former farm and incorporated into the city in 1959 along with most of the later Winchester Woods subdivision source
