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Rowell, South Carolina

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1941 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Fort Lawn census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29704. The Survey maps it on the Catawba quadrangle.

Rowell within Chester County

On record in Rowell

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

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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

140 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 140 fires within 5 miles of Rowell between 1992 and 2018, burning about 392 acres in total. 1 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined69
Debris and open burning33
Equipment and vehicle use11
Arson/incendiarism7
Railroad operations and maintenance7
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Other causes3
Smoking2
Recreation and ceremony1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Natural1

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 1995Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 1998Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
26 September 1996Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
2 September 1999Arson/incendiarismunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 2001Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
14 September 2008Debris and open burning1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
11 September 2005Debris and open burning1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
11 September 1999Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Chester County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Rowell: 2 unknowns, 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Unnamed Granite QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenUnknownIgneous
Ashe MineClayUnknownSedimentary
Ashe MineClayPast Producer
John Barnette MineClayPast ProducerUnconsolidated Sediments

Every working recorded in Chester County

Storms near this place

1 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Rowell in 1 storm report in 2012: 1 thunderstorm wind. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2012Thunderstorm WindRowell-Multiple trees were blown down a little south of the York county line.

Every storm recorded in Chester 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
Landsford1.3 miles12
Edgemoor4.9 miles15
Lando4.9 miles15
Fudges (historical)4.9 miles12
Fort Lawn6.5 miles12
Lewisville (historical)6.6 miles12
Hicklin Crossing6.8 miles15
Bascomville7.2 miles12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1250478. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.