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Welcome to Bowman ...

Bowman is located in the Texas Panhandle.

Bowman is located in Archer County<1>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of Bowman, you might consider that their post office opened  in 1891.

Time Zone: Bowman lies in the Central Time Zone (CST/CDT) and observes daylight saving time

Area Code for Bowman: 940

Communities Also Named Bowman ...

Using our Gazetteer, we found that there are 22 communities that are also named Bowman - they are located in Arkansas (2), California, Colorado, Georgia, Illinois (2), Indiana, Kentucky, Maine, Mississippi, Missouri (2), New Hampshire, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Quebec, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia and West Virginia.

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

Adding Bowman to Our Gazetteer ...

We originally found mention of Bowman 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 Bowman was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>

From that list, the Bowman post office opened in 1891.

We also found Bowman in the book titled Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895).

For more details, see References and Mentions for Bowman.

Footnotes ...

<1>If you're interested in how the shape of Texas' counties, including Archer, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
<2>A copy of their list with background information can be found at:

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