Cowgills Corner, Delaware

33 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1899 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Dover census division. It lies in ZIP code area 19901. The Survey maps it on the Little Creek quadrangle. It stands 20 feet above sea level.

Cowgills Corner within Kent County

On record in Cowgills Corner

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Octagonal Schoolhouselisted 1971

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 surveys from 33 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.

1899 USGS Vineland quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
1919 USGS Vineland quadrangle1:125000
1934 USGS Bowers quadrangle1:48000
1936 USGS Bowers quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
1946 USGS Wilmington quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1949 USGS Little Creek quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1955 USGS Wilmington quadrangle1:250000
1956 USGS Little Creek quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
1957 USGS Wilmington quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1959 USGS Wilmington quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1966 USGS Wilmington quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1972 USGS Wilmington quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1984 USGS Dover quadrangle1:100000
1993 USGS Little Creek quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

24 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 24 fires within 5 miles of Cowgills Corner between 1994 and 2007, burning about 2,605 acres in total. 5 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	15
Natural	5
Arson/incendiarism	2
Recreation and ceremony	1
Debris and open burning	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
31 August 2002	Natural	under an acre	Delaware State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
26 August 2002	Natural	1.0 acres	Delaware State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
25 August 2002	Natural	under an acre	Delaware State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
23 August 2002	Natural	under an acre	Delaware State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
23 August 2002	Natural	1.0 acres	Delaware State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
22 August 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Delaware State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
23 July 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Bombay Hook National Wildlife Refuge	STEAM FIRE
4 June 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Delaware State Fire Marshal's Office	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Kent County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Cowgills Corner: 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
	Tarburton Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
	Tarburton Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Kent 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Hilldale	0.1 miles	33
Shadybrook Farms	0.9 miles	33
Oak Shadows	0.9 miles	33
Pleasanton Acres	1.3 miles	29
Persimmon Park Place	2.0 miles	29
Manchester Square	2.1 miles	29
White Oak Farms	2.1 miles	29
Independence Village	2.2 miles	29

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 Cowgills Corner	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5179681	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 216074. 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.