Rowena, Kentucky

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Jamestown census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42629. It stands on Little Indian Creek. The Survey maps it on the Jamestown quadrangle. It stands 981 feet above sea level.

Rowena within Russell County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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.

1953 USGS Jamestown quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1956 USGS Corbin quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Corbin quadrangle1:250000
1978 USGS Jamestown quadrangle1:24000
1985 USGS Tompkinsville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

31 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 31 fires within 5 miles of Rowena between 1998 and 2019, burning about 2,810 acres in total. None started naturally. 7 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
Debris and open burning	12
Arson/incendiarism	7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5
Recreation and ceremony	3
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	1
Smoking	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
9 September 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	11 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
25 September 2008	Debris and open burning	98 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
20 September 2007	Equipment and vehicle use	150 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	WHIPPOORWILL FIRE
14 September 2001	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
13 September 1998	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
25 June 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	21 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	ROWENEA
4 April 2002	Railroad operations and maintenance	20 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
2 April 2007	Debris and open burning	15 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Russell 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
Long Bottom	1.3 miles	9
Helm	2.7 miles	9
Manntown	2.9 miles	9
Freedom	3.1 miles	9
Sewellton	4.0 miles	9
Old Olga	4.7 miles	9
Creelsboro	4.9 miles	9
Olga	5.8 miles	9

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 Rowena	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q14691188	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 508982. 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.