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Rowden, Texas

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1931 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Cross Plains census division. It lies in ZIP code area 79504. The Survey maps it on the Rowden quadrangle.

Rowden within Callahan County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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

42 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 42 fires within 5 miles of Rowden between 2006 and 2020, burning about 4,654 acres in total. 3 started naturally. None 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/undetermined21
Equipment and vehicle use8
Debris and open burning8
Natural3
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Smoking1

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
29 September 2020Debris and open burning5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCEDAR PILE
9 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined185 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSILVERBROOK
5 August 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
31 August 2006Debris and open burning10 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBELLE PLAIN FIRE
3 August 2008Debris and open burning5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
3 August 2007Debris and open burning5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
28 August 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceHWY 36 ABND CR 475
22 August 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFENCE ROW

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Callahan County

Storms near this place

22 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Rowden in 22 storm reports between 2001 and 2024: 18 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. 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
May 2024HailRowden-A trained spotter reported tennis ball size hail 10 miles west of Cross Plains.
April 2024HailRowden-Public reported quarter size hail.
May 2017HailRowden-A National Weather Service Cooperative Observer reported hail covering the ground, with the largest being quarter size.
May 2016HailRowden-A trained spotter reported ping pong ball size hail, 8 miles east of Oplin.
May 2016HailRowden-A trained spotter reported half dollar size hail, 8 miles east-southeast of Oplin.
July 2014Thunderstorm WindRowden-The public reported a few mesquite limbs down along State Highway 36. The limbs were 3 to 5 feet in length.
April 2014HailRowden-A trained spotter reported nickel size hail 12 miles south of Baird.
January 2013HailRowden-A trained spotter reported mostly marble sized hail with a few just under golfball size.
April 2011HailRowden-Golfball to nearly baseball size hail fell 12 miles south of Baird.
April 2011HailRowden-Hail covered the ground.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindRowden-A wind gust of 58 mph was reported.
September 2001Tornado (F0)Rowden-A tornado briefly touched down near Rowden in central Callahan County, but no damage was reported.
September 2001HailRowden-Baseball size hail reported in the small community of Rowden.
May 2015HailRowden-no account filed
April 2014HailRowden-no account filed
April 2014HailRowden-no account filed
May 2013HailRowden-no account filed
May 2010HailRowden-no account filed
May 2010HailRowden-no account filed
June 2009HailRowden-no account filed
May 2008HailRowden-no account filed
June 2008Thunderstorm WindRowden-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Callahan 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
Admiral6.8 miles9
Cottonwood7.4 miles8
Belle Plain7.4 miles9
Cross Plains10.9 miles8
Denton11.0 miles14
Atwell11.8 miles9
Oplin12.2 miles14
Jayell12.6 miles8

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 RowdenAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q122544667The 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 1378991. 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.

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.