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On July 22, 1881, Bowie was incorporated as a town in Montague County, United States. (A separate Bowie County includes Texarkana in northeastern Texas.) The town began to expand with the arrival of the Fort Worth and Denver Railway in 1882. [5] In 1884, four men robbed the First National Bank of Bowie and allegedly left with over $10,000 in ...
Bowie County (/ ˈ b uː i / BOO-ee [1]) is a county in the U.S. state of Texas. Its legal county seat is Boston, though its courthouse is located in New Boston. [2] As of the 2020 census, the population was 92,893. [3] Bowie County is part of the Texarkana metropolitan statistical area.
While only about 20% of Texas counties are generally located within the Houston—Dallas—San Antonio—Austin areas, they serve a majority of the state's population with approximately 22,000,000 inhabitants. Texas was originally divided into municipalities (municipios in Spanish), a unit of local government under Spanish and Mexican rule.
The Bowie Independent School District is a public school district based in Bowie, Texas . Located in Montague County , the district also serves the city of Sunset . Small portions of the district extend into Jack and Clay counties.
De Kalb (/ d ɪ ˈ k æ b / di KAB) is a city in Bowie County, Texas, United States; it is part of the Texarkana metropolitan statistical area. Its two area codes are 430 and 903. Its ZIP code is 75559. It is in the Central Time Zone, and its population was 1,527 at the 2020 United States census. [4]
In 1940 US 287 was extended south into Texas, and a 67-mile (108 km) stretch from Fort Worth northwest to Bowie was cosigned with US 81. [2] The summer 1941 Texas Highway Map shows this pairing, and the current southern terminus of US 81 is still cosigned with US 287.
Location of Bowie County in Texas. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Bowie County, Texas. This is intended to be a complete list of properties and districts listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Bowie County, Texas. There are one district and 17 individual properties listed on the National ...
Austin College in Sherman, Texas is located within the district. As of 2017, the 4th district represents 747,188 people who are predominantly white (80.8%) and middle-class (median family income is US$56,062, compared to $50,046 nationwide). [ 2 ]