Welcome to Bowen ...

So far, we found very little information about Bowen. The little that we've found leads us believe that the community is historic.<1>

We've added Bowen to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. We would especially like to find the location of Bowen - knowing its coordinates, we can explore things like its relationship to neighboring communities, nearby cemeteries, etc. If you can help us with Bowen, please Contact Us.

While we don't have the exact location of Bowen , we believe that it would have been located within present day Washington County<2>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of Bowen, you might get a feel for it by knowing that during our research the earliest mention that we found (so far) was on a map dated 1895.

Time Zone: The area where Bowen was located is in the Central Time Zone (CST/CDT) and observes daylight saving time

The location where Bowen once stood is in the (402) & (531)<3> area codes.

Communities Also Named Bowen ...

Using our Gazetteer, we found that there are 18 communities that are also named Bowen - they are located in Alabama, Arkansas, Colorado (2), Georgia, Illinois, Iowa, Kentucky, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, New Mexico, New York, Ohio, Ontario, Tennessee and West Virginia.

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

Adding Bowen to Our Gazetteer ...

We originally found mention of Bowen 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 Bowen was on a map titled Map of Nebraska (from Rand McNally, 1895).

For more details, see References and Mentions for Bowen.

Off-the-Road Links ...

The official website for Washington County: www.co.washington.ne.us/

The official website for State of Nebraska: www.nebraska.gov/

Footnotes ...

<1>	We use the term 'Historic' broadly and it generally means that the community no longer exists. However, it can also mean that the community might still exist, but was significantly larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now. Unfortunately our sources of data have proven to be unreliable. If you can provide us with more specific information about Bowen, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<2>	If you're interested in how the shape of Nebraska's counties, including Washington, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
<3>	Area code (531) is an overlay for area code (402).