Gazetteer
Housing Units (2000): 270
Land area (2000): 0.400969 sq. miles (1.038505 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.400969 sq. miles (1.038505 sq. km)
FIPS code: 17055
Located within: Illinois (IL), FIPS 17
Location: 39.248971 N, 88.860033 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 62422
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Cowden
Wikipedia
Cowden (1) is a small village and civil parish in the Sevenoaks District of Kent, England. The parish is located on the northern slopes of the Weald, south-west of Tonbridge. The old High Street has Grade II listed cottages and village houses, and there is an inn called The Fountain.
Cowden is a small village and civil parish in the Sevenoaks District of Kent, England.
Cowden may also refer to:
- Cowden, East Riding of Yorkshire, England
- Cowden, Illinois, United States
- Cowden railway station, a railway station in Kent
People with the given name Cowden:
- Charles Cowden Clarke (1787-1877), English author and Shakespearian scholar
- Mary Cowden Clarke (1809-1898), English author
People with the surname Cowden:
- Bill Cowden (1920-2007), American basketball player
- John Cowden (1917-2006), American television executive
- Lucinda Cowden (21st century), Australian actress
Usage examples of "cowden".
Miss Margaret Campbell was thirty-scven, Miss Cowden told me, the only relative of the Reverend Archibald Campbell, with whom she had lived for the past twenty years, since the death of their parents.
Miss Cowden assured me, squatting next to me as I knelt on the floor to check Miss Campbett's plantar reflexes.
Miss Cowden gave me a gaptoothed smile in testimony to her own virtues.
Miss Cowden said, lowering her voice as though the figure in the chair could hear.
Miss Cowden explained, "for what woman would have him, and she"-with a nod toward the fire--was thrown into the bargain?
I said, handing Miss Cowden the paper, you must see that she cats a great deal of fruit-oranges, grapefruit, and lemons, particularly.
Charles and Mary Cowden Clarke speak of "the marvelous intimacy which he displays with legal terms, his frequent adoption of them in illustration, and his curiously technical knowledge of their form and force.
Leonard's Forge, and afterwards the Tensley Forge near Crawley, and the Cowden Iron-works, which then bore a high reputation.
Three violent deaths in about seventy years, against which we can only put the case of Thomas, servant to Hume of Cowden Knowes, who was arraigned with his two young masters for the death of the Bastard of Mellerstanes in 1569.
Florian, for the story of the Hungarian fighting the Turks, and to Timothy John Cowden, for the story of his aunt, Lillian Saxe, who really did write a note in a book she left to him like Edouard did in Chapter 7.
Miss Cowden hastened to oblige, lighting a wax taper from the fire.