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.
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 9 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1931 USGS Baird quadrangle1:125000
- 1932 USGS Baird quadrangle1:125000
- 1954 USGS Abilene quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Abilene quadrangle1:250000
- 1968 USGS Rowden quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Abilene quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
42 since 2006Regional 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/undetermined | 21 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 8 |
| Debris and open burning | 8 |
| Natural | 3 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29 September 2020 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | CEDAR PILE |
| 9 August 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 185 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | SILVERBROOK |
| 5 August 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 31 August 2006 | Debris and open burning | 10 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | BELLE PLAIN FIRE |
| 3 August 2008 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 3 August 2007 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 28 August 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | HWY 36 ABND CR 475 |
| 22 August 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | FENCE ROW |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
22 since 2001Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2024 | Hail | Rowden | - | A trained spotter reported tennis ball size hail 10 miles west of Cross Plains. |
| April 2024 | Hail | Rowden | - | Public reported quarter size hail. |
| May 2017 | Hail | Rowden | - | A National Weather Service Cooperative Observer reported hail covering the ground, with the largest being quarter size. |
| May 2016 | Hail | Rowden | - | A trained spotter reported ping pong ball size hail, 8 miles east of Oplin. |
| May 2016 | Hail | Rowden | - | A trained spotter reported half dollar size hail, 8 miles east-southeast of Oplin. |
| July 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Rowden | - | The public reported a few mesquite limbs down along State Highway 36. The limbs were 3 to 5 feet in length. |
| April 2014 | Hail | Rowden | - | A trained spotter reported nickel size hail 12 miles south of Baird. |
| January 2013 | Hail | Rowden | - | A trained spotter reported mostly marble sized hail with a few just under golfball size. |
| April 2011 | Hail | Rowden | - | Golfball to nearly baseball size hail fell 12 miles south of Baird. |
| April 2011 | Hail | Rowden | - | Hail covered the ground. |
| June 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Rowden | - | A wind gust of 58 mph was reported. |
| September 2001 | Tornado (F0) | Rowden | - | A tornado briefly touched down near Rowden in central Callahan County, but no damage was reported. |
| September 2001 | Hail | Rowden | - | Baseball size hail reported in the small community of Rowden. |
| May 2015 | Hail | Rowden | - | no account filed |
| April 2014 | Hail | Rowden | - | no account filed |
| April 2014 | Hail | Rowden | - | no account filed |
| May 2013 | Hail | Rowden | - | no account filed |
| May 2010 | Hail | Rowden | - | no account filed |
| May 2010 | Hail | Rowden | - | no account filed |
| June 2009 | Hail | Rowden | - | no account filed |
| May 2008 | Hail | Rowden | - | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Rowden | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Admiral | 6.8 miles | 9 | |
| Cottonwood | 7.4 miles | 8 | |
| Belle Plain | 7.4 miles | 9 | |
| Cross Plains | 10.9 miles | 8 | |
| Denton | 11.0 miles | 14 | |
| Atwell | 11.8 miles | 9 | |
| Oplin | 12.2 miles | 14 | |
| Jayell | 12.6 miles | 8 |
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 Rowden | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q122544667 | 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 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.





