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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 ]
English: This is a locator map showing Bowie County in Texas. For more information, see Commons:United States county locator maps. Date: 12 February 2006: Source:
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 ...
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.
Camp Bowie, named in honor of the Texas patriot James Bowie, was a military training facility during World War II, and was the third camp in Texas to be so named.From 1940 to 1946, it grew to be one of the largest training centers in Texas.
Redwater is twelve miles southwest of Texarkana in southeastern Bowie County. It grew up in the mid-1870s around a sawmill operated by two men named Daniels and Spence, who named the community Ingersoll, in honor of the agnostic Robert Ingersoll. A post office was established in 1881, and by 1884 the town had an estimated population of fifty.
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]