Biohazard and Crime Scene Remediation in Swall Meadows, CA

Swall Meadows is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in southern Mono County, California, tucked partway up the Sherwin Grade below the Wheeler Crest of the eastern Sierra Nevada.

Swall Meadows sits at elevations of roughly 6,000 to 7,000 feet, about 20 miles north of Bishop and 25 miles south of Mammoth Lakes, with views across the Owens Valley to the White Mountains.

The community is purely residential, including many second homes, with a volunteer fire department and no commercial development at all.

The 2020 census counted just 178 residents in Swall Meadows, down from 220 in 2010, living in 94 households with a small average size of 1.89 people.

Swall Meadows is a community of older homeowners — the median age was 63.1 years in the 2020 census, and 84.0% of occupied homes were owner-occupied.

On February 6, 2015, the Round Fire burned 7,000 acres and destroyed 40 homes, 39 of them in Swall Meadows, devastating the small community.

Swall Meadows is known as an important migration route for the Round Valley mule deer herd, and in 2011 the Eastern Sierra Land Trust secured a conservation easement protecting 104 acres of its historic meadow for the deer.

The CDP stretches from the old Sky Meadows Ranch at its high northwestern end to the Pinyon Ranch development at the southeast, covering 4.5 square miles under ZIP Code 93514.