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Welcome to Bowmantown ...

Bowmantown is located in Washington County<1>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of Bowmantown, you might consider that their post office opened in 1889.

From the 2010 Census (the most recent Census number we have), Bowmantown had a population of 302 people.<2> (see below for details).

Bowmantown is 1,470 feet [448 m] above sea level.<3>.

Time Zone: Bowmantown lies in the Eastern Time Zone (EST/EDT) and observes daylight saving time

Area Codes for Bowmantown: 423 & 729<4>

Communities Also Named Bowmantown ...

Using our Gazetteer, we found another community named Bowmantown - it's located in Virginia.

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

Communities near Bowmantown ...

We have created a list of 10 communities that are near Bowmantown.

To Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

We have a couple of sections for those tracing their genealogy.

We created a list of cemeteries that are in the area around Bowmantown. Our list includes the location of those cemeteries and we provide an overhead view. See our Cemetery List for Bowmantown.

Using the information from an 1895 Atlas, we've created a list of communities that were in the area of Bowmantown. Our list includes information such as whether the 1895 community had a post office or railroad service. See our List of 1890's Communities around Bowmantown.

We also have a detailed list of newspapers that have been published in the area around Bowmantown. See our Newspapers Page for Bowmantown.

TripAdvisor Tourism Pages for Bowmantown ...

Looking for more information about Bowmantown? A wonderful source is the TripAdvisor website. We always start with the TripAdvisor Tourism page, where you can read an overview with links that will help you find lodging, restaurants and attractions.

While we are unaware of a Tourism page that is specific to Bowmantown, there are neighboring communities that do have Tourism pages. A map of those communities can be found with our TripAdvisor Page for Bowmantown.

Adding Bowmantown to Our Gazetteer ...

We originally found mention of Bowmantown in both the FIPS-55 and the GNIS. For more information, see the FIPS and GNIS Codes sections on our Miscellaneous Page.

From our notes, the earliest published mention we've found (so far) for Bowmantown was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<6>

From that list, the Bowmantown post office opened in 1889. The Bowmantown post office closed in 1900.

For more details, see References and Mentions for Bowmantown.

Footnotes ...

<1>If you're interested in how the shape of Tennessee's counties, including Washington, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
<2>Population counts have been provided by the U.S. Census Bureau. For more detail, please visit our Census Page for Bowmantown.
<3>The elevation is an estimate for the area around Bowmantown - it will be higher in some places and lower in others.
<4>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 423 code has been Overlayed with the 729 area code. New phone numbers in the Bowmantown area will be assigned with one of these codes: 423 or 729. As a result, placing a call in the Bowmantown area will require 10-digit dialing (where you enter both the area code and then the phone number).
<5>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<6>A copy of the Blevins & Helbock Post Office list with background information can be found at:

      https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/