Welcome to Bowman ...

Bowman is located in Cape Girardeau County<1>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of Bowman, you might consider that their post office opened in 1905.

Time Zone: Bowman lies in the Central Time Zone (CST/CDT) and observes daylight saving time

Area Codes for Bowman: 573 & 235<2>

Communities Also Named Bowman ...

Using our Gazetteer, we found that there are two Missouri communities named Bowman: This one is located in Cape Girardeau County and the other is located in Harrison County.

Beyond Missouri, there are 22 communities that are also named Bowman - they are located in Arkansas (2), California, Colorado, Georgia, Illinois (2), Indiana, Kentucky, Maine, Mississippi, New Hampshire, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Quebec, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia and West Virginia.

For more information, see our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Bowman.

Adding Bowman to Our Gazetteer ...

We originally found mention of Bowman in the GNIS. For more information, see the Referenced GNIS Codes section on our Miscellaneous Page.

From our notes, the earliest published mention we've found for Bowman was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<3>

From that list, the Bowman post office opened in 1905.

For more details, see References and Mentions for Bowman.

Footnotes ...

<1>	If you're interested in how the shape of Missouri's counties, including Cape Girardeau, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
<2>	When there's a risk of an area code running out of phone numbers, an 'Overlay Area Code' is created that has the same geographic boundaries as the existing area code. In this case, the 573 code has been Overlayed with the 235 area code. New phone numbers in the Bowman area will be assigned with one of these codes: 573 or 235. As a result, placing a call in the Bowman area will require 10-digit dialing (where you enter both the area code and then the phone number).
<3>	A copy of their list with background information can be found at: https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/