Do you know of Cowan ???

This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Cowan. 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 Cowan.

We found mention of Cowan as a community (see Mentions and References below), but haven't been able to determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Armstrong County, Pennsylvania.

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.

Communities Also Named Cowan ...

We found twelve communities that share the name Cowan.

There is one other community in Pennsylvania which is also named Cowan.

Beyond Pennsylvania, we know of another eleven communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these eleven communities, ten are located in the United States and two are in Canada.

Communities Located In Pennsylvania ...
- Union County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Cowan [Union County].

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Arkansas
  - Marion County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Cowan [Marion County].
- Georgia
  - Morgan County
  - We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Cowan [Morgan County].
- Indiana
  - Delaware County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Cowan [Delaware County].
- Kentucky
  - Fleming County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Cowan [Fleming County].
- Manitoba
  - Please visit our profile page for the Manitoba community of Cowan.
- Missouri
  - Christian County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Cowan [Christian County].
- Montana
  - Gallatin County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Montana community of Cowan [Gallatin County].
- Quebec
  - Please visit our profile page for the Quebec community of Cowan.
- Tennessee
  - Franklin County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Cowan [Franklin County].
- Texas
  - Erath County
  - We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Cowan [Erath County].
- Virginia
  - Pulaski County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Cowan [Pulaski County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Cowan ...

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

Rand McNally Map of Pennsylvania (1911)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.

The FIPS database contains an entry for Cowan.

Referenced FIPS Records ...

FIPS Code: 42/16696 (Place Name: Cowan (RR name for Cowansville))

County: Armstrong (FIPS State/County: 42/005)

Class: X3

More Orphans in Armstrong 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 Armstrong County.

Footnotes ...

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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 Cowan 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.