Census Data for Bowers Ferry
As far as we can tell, Bowers Ferry<1> has not been included in past Census counts, so there is no population information for this community.
While we don't have census information for Bowers Ferry, you might be interested in some nearby communities where we do:
- Fries
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
- Galax
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
- Hillsville
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the east)
- Wytheville
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
- Independence
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest)
- Low Gap
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the south)
- Pulaski
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the northeast)
- Rural Retreat
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)
- Sparta
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)
- Mount Airy
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
- Dublin
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
- Dobson
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
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- Trout Dale
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
Carroll County ...
Bowers Ferry is located in Carroll County<3>.
For more information, please visit our Census Page for Carroll County.
Miscellaneous Information for Bowers Ferry ...
The Federal government has assigned various identifying codes to each community, county and state. At one time or another, the US Census Bureau has used one (or more) of the following identifiers when referring to either Carroll County or the community of Bowers Ferry:
- The GNIS Codes ...
- The current system of identification is called the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). The following GNIS codes relate to Bowers Ferry:
- GNIS ID for Bowers Ferry: 1738606
- GNIS ID for Carroll County: 1480108
- GNIS ID for State of Virginia: 1779803
- Misc. Census Codes ...
- Bowers Ferry is located in Census Region #3 (the South Region) and Division #5 (the South Atlantic Division).
For more information about the various Federal identification codes, please visit our Misc Page for Bowers Ferry.
Footnotes ...
| <1> | It's a common practice for mapmakers to remove the apostrophe from possessive names. So Bowers Ferry may originally have been Bower's Ferry. Sometimes the trailing 's' might be dropped altogether, in which case Bowers Ferry might be written as Bower Ferry. For more information, please visit our Genealogy Helper Page for Bowers Ferry. |
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| <3> | If you're interested in how the shape of Virginia's counties, including Carroll, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries. |