Cowden, South Carolina

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1921 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Jackson census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29831. The Survey maps it on the Jackson quadrangle.

Cowden within Aiken County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 19 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.

1921 USGS Augusta quadrangle1:62500, 5 printings
1943 USGS Augusta quadrangle1:62500
1943 USGS Augusta East quadrangle1:125000
1954 USGS Augusta quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Augusta quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Augusta quadrangle1:250000
1961 USGS Augusta quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1962 USGS Augusta quadrangle1:250000
1965 USGS Jackson quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1982 USGS Barnwell quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

55 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 55 fires within 5 miles of Cowden between 1992 and 2020, burning about 547 acres in total. 7 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
Debris and open burning	24
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	8
Natural	7
Power generation/transmission/distribution	5
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Smoking	3
Arson/incendiarism	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	1
Fireworks	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
28 September 1994	Debris and open burning	6.0 acres	Savannah River Forest	not named
24 September 2002	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Savannah River Forest	B-LINE
12 September 2005	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
8 August 2001	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
3 August 2011	Natural	160 acres	Savannah River Forest	ROAD 2
29 August 2008	Natural	under an acre	Savannah River Forest	CAT FACE FIRE
11 August 2001	Natural	under an acre	Savannah River Forest	DETAILER
5 July 2003	Fireworks	1.0 acres	Savannah River Forest	GRAVY

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Aiken County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Cowden: 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Cobalt, Manganese. 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
	Silver Bluff	Cobalt, Manganese	Occurrence

Every working recorded in Aiken 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
Bush (historical)	1.9 miles	19
Grays Landing	2.2 miles	19
Jackson	2.7 miles	19
Hankinson	3.6 miles	19
Kathwood	4.7 miles	19
Browns Hill	5.8 miles	19
Hawthorne (historical)	6.0 miles	18
Twiggs	8.2 miles	21

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1227889. 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.