Welcome to Sowers ...
So far, we found very little information about Sowers. The little that we've found leads us believe that the community is historic.<1>
We've added Sowers to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. If you can help us with Sowers, please Contact Us.
Sowers was located Sowers would have been located within present day Dallas County<2>. The location of Sowers has been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (ie- the GNIS).<3> While we don't have a date for the founding of Sowers, you might consider that their post office opened in 1881. While the community is gone, the present day location for Sowers is 530 feet [162 m] above sea level.<4>. Time Zone: The area where Sowers was located is in the Central Time Zone (CST/CDT) and observes daylight saving time Using our Gazetteer, we found another community named Sowers - it's located in Virginia. For more information, see our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Sowers. We have created a list of 10 communities that are near Sowers. We have a couple of sections for those tracing their genealogy. We created a list of cemeteries that are in the area around Sowers. Our list includes the location of those cemeteries and we provide an overhead view. See our Cemetery List for Sowers. Using the information from an 1895 Atlas, we've created a list of communities that were in the area of Sowers. 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 Sowers. We also have a detailed list of newspapers that have been published in the area around Sowers. See our Newspapers Page for Sowers. We originally found mention of Sowers 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 for Sowers was on a map titled Map of Texas (from Rand McNally, 1911). We also found Sowers in the book titled .<6> From that list, the Sowers post office opened in 1881.
For more details, see References and Mentions for Sowers.
The official website for Dallas County: www.dallascounty.org/ The official website for State of Texas: https://texas.gov/
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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 Sowers, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy. <2> If you're interested in how the shape of Texas' counties, including Dallas, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries. <3> The location has been supplied by the Geographic Names Information System - which is maintained by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). While these values should be definitive, we found that accuracy can vary and you should double-check the location if accuracy is required. <4> The elevation is an estimate for the area around Sowers - it will be higher in some places and lower in others. <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 their list with background information can be found at:
https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/