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Cowden Junction, Oklahoma

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Northeast Washita census division. It lies in ZIP code area 73021. The Survey maps it on the Colony quadrangle.

Cowden Junction within Washita 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.

Fires near this place

11 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Cowden Junction between 2006 and 2018, burning about 2,515 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 1 was 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/undetermined4
Equipment and vehicle use3
Natural1
Debris and open burning1
Recreation and ceremony1
Arson/incendiarism1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
4 September 2016Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreConcho Field OfficeCOLEMAN
6 August 2011Arson/incendiarism1,480 acresConcho Field OfficeCOLONY
11 August 2007Natural76 acresConcho Field OfficeLAWRENCE
8 July 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined25 acresConcho Field OfficeSEGER
24 May 2012Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreConcho Field OfficeCADDO JACK
3 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined575 acresConcho Field OfficeCOLONY
26 March 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresConcho Field OfficePARIS
23 March 2006Debris and open burning300 acresConcho Field OfficeLEVI

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Washita County

Mines and quarries near this place

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Cowden Junction: 8 past producers, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gypsum-Anhydrite, Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Unknown Shale PitClayPast Producer
Unknown Shale PitClayPast Producer
Unknown Shale PitClayPast Producer
Unknown Shale PitClayPast Producer
Agricultural Gypsum CorpGypsum-AnhydriteUnknown
Unknown Gypsum PitGypsum-AnhydritePast Producer
Unknown Gypsum PitGypsum-AnhydritePast Producer
Unknown Gypsum PitGypsum-AnhydritePast Producer
Unknown Gypsum PitGypsum-AnhydritePast Producer

Every working recorded in Washita 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Cowden3.0 miles8
Colony4.4 miles9
Corn7.1 miles9
Cloud Chief7.5 miles9
Indian Village (historical)8.4 miles9
Lake Valley11.7 miles9
Cordell14.7 miles9
Bessie16.1 miles9

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.

Wikidata item Q122591464The 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 1100329. 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.