Do you know of Bowles ???

This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Bowles. When we encounter a name that is new to us, we add it to our Gazetteer with the hope that we'll discover more information in the future. Such is the case with Bowles.

Our sources for Bowles (see Mentions and References below) indicate that it was a community with a post office by the same name. Unfortunately our sources aren't clear about the location of Bowles other than they indicate that Bowles would be found somewhere in Wilkes County, North Carolina.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1888 and closed  in 1902.

This entry could have originated in error. It might be that a source had a misprint, was simply wrong or we made a transcription error while referencing it. Many of the documents we reference are from the 1800s and the early 1900s, with some easier to read than others.

Part of the difficulty in identifying whether a name is a post office or a community lies with how Post Offices were named. We've prepared an article with our understanding of how post offices were named: Naming of Post Offices.

Communities Also Named Bowles ...

We found five communities that share the name Bowles.

Within North Carolina, the name Bowles is unique.

Beyond North Carolina, we know of another five communities that are located throughout in the United States.

• Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
  • Alabama
    • Conecuh County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Bowles [Conecuh County].
  • California
    • Fresno County
    • Please visit our profile page for the California community of Bowles [Fresno County].
  • Mississippi
    • Chickasaw County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Bowles [Chickasaw County].
    • Sunflower County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Bowles [Sunflower County].
  • West Virginia
    • Lincoln County
    • Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Bowles [Lincoln County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Bowles ...

We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Bowles:

Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<1>

Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.

A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Bowles - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned

More Orphans in  Wilkes County ...

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As we explained above, when we encounter a name that might be a community or a post office we add it to our Gazetteer. If we have little information to go with the name, we call them Orphans. Below are Orphans that we believe to be located in Wilkes County.