Bowers Hill, West Virginia

To help identify the number of people who live in Bowers Hill and the surrounding area, we have drawn concentric rings centered on Bowers Hill. We counted the number of communities within each ring and summed their populations.^<4> We don't have the population of Bowers Hill, so its people haven't been included.

Radius	No of Communities	2016 Population	Change Since 2010
5 mi [8 km]	2	2,158	-7.06%
10 mi [16 km]	3	2,330	-6.95%
15 mi [24 km]	4	2,868	-6.43%
20 mi [32 km]	5	3,699	-4.86%
25 mi [40 km]	8	8,581	-3.13%
30 mi [48 km]	12	15,092	-2.38%

Miscellaneous Information for Bowers Hill ...

The Federal government has assigned various identifying codes to each community, county and state. At one time or another, the US Census Bureau has referenced one (or more) of the following identifiers when referring to either Roane County or the community of Bowers Hill:

The GNIS Codes ...

The current system of identification is called the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). The following GNIS codes relate to Bowers Hill:

GNIS ID for Bowers Hill: 1553955

GNIS ID for Roane County: 1550050

GNIS ID for West Virginia: 1779805

The FIPS Codes ...

An earlier (and largely obsolete) identification method was called the Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS):

State Code: 54 (West Virginia)

County Code: 087 (Roane County)

Place Code: 09420 (Bowers Hill)

State & County Code: 54/087 (West Virginia / Roane County)

State & Place Code: 54/09420 (West Virginia / Bowers Hill)

Misc. Census Codes ...

Bowers Hill 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 Hill.

Other Roadside Stops ...

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Off-the-Road Links ...

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The official website for State of West Virginia: www.wv.gov/

The official website of the U.S. Board on Geographic Names (BGN)

The official website of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS)

Footnotes ...

<1>	It's a common practice for mapmakers to remove the apostrophe from possessive names. So Bowers Hill may originally have been Bower's Hill. Sometimes the trailing 's' might be dropped altogether, in which case Bowers Hill might be written as Bower Hill. For more information, please visit our Genealogy Helper Page for Bowers Hill. - Return to Citation
<2>	Population counts have been provided by the U.S. Census Bureau. - Return to Citation
<3>	Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'point-to-point' distance that stretches from Bowers Hill. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Bowers Hill) to Point B. Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Bowers Hill. The point that we are using is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 38.7929, Longitude: -81.3079 [Map]. In this case, the coordinates for Bowers Hill have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). - Return to Citation
<4>	The communities in our count are those provided by the 2010 Census, so keep in mind that our population rings will only include the people living in those communities. Smaller communities usually don't participate directly in the Census and therefore they won't be included. While our count is a close approximation, it shouldn't be considered as a complete or accurate count. - Return to Citation

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