Do you know of Fowler ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Fowler. 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 Fowler.
Our sources for Fowler (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 Fowler other than they indicate that Fowler would be found somewhere in Douglas County, Nebraska.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1886 and closed in 1895.
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 Fowler ...
We found 23 communities that share the name Fowler.
Within Nebraska, the name Fowler is unique.
Beyond Nebraska, we know of another 23 communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these 23 communities, 21 are located in the United States and two are in Canada.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
- Arizona
- Maricopa County
- Please visit our profile page for the Arizona community of Fowler [Maricopa County].
- Arkansas
- Yell County
- Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Fowler [Yell County].
- British Columbia
- Please visit our profile page for the British Columbia community of Fowler.
- California
- Fresno County
- Please visit our profile page for the California community of Fowler [Fresno County].
- Colorado
- Otero County
- Please visit our profile page for the Colorado community of Fowler [Otero County].
- Illinois
- Adams County
- Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Fowler [Adams County].
- Indiana
- Benton County
- Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Fowler [Benton County].
- Kansas
- Louisiana
- Ouachita Parish
- Please visit our profile page for the Louisiana community of Fowler [Ouachita Parish].
- Michigan
- Clinton County
- Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Fowler [Clinton County].
- Missouri
- Texas County
- Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Fowler [Texas County].
- Montana
- Pondera County
- Please visit our profile page for the Montana community of Fowler [Pondera County].
- New York
- Saint Lawrence County
- Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Fowler [Saint Lawrence County].
- Ohio
- Trumbull County
- Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Fowler [Trumbull County].
- Oklahoma
- Lincoln County
- Please visit our profile page for the Oklahoma community of Fowler [Lincoln County].
- Ontario
- Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Fowler.
- Pennsylvania
- South Carolina
- Williamsburg County
- Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Fowler [Williamsburg County].
- Texas
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Fowler ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Fowler:
Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>
Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Fowler - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned
More Orphans in Douglas County ...
Can you help?
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 Douglas County.
Footnotes ...
| <1> | If we encounter the name of what might be a community, our methodology is to add that name to our Gazetteer as a placeholder. As we find more information about that community, it will be added to our Gazetteer. Just as a reminder: Our definition of a community is rather broad and includes those places (or areas) where several families lived and had a name which identified that place. For example, you might hear somebody say that they are going over to Rock Creek to see Pete ... Rock Creek is just a gas station and a couple of homes at the crossroads. While it might not be on the map, everybody in the area knows it by that name. Places of interest include buildings at a crossroad, several families clustered in a hollow or maybe the location of a way station. It also includes places like mines, lumber camps, ferry crossings, etc. The community might still exist, is now gone or only existed for just a short period of time. Also keep in mind that Fowler could have been on the original document by mistake, misspelled, the original/alternate name of a community that we've listed elsewhere or was placed in the wrong county. Sometimes a post office or train station would have a different name than the community where it's located, so two names might be referring to the same community - we're working to straighten it all out. |
| <2> | A copy of their list with background information can be found at: https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/ |