Bowie County, Texas
| Bowie County, Texas | |
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The Bowie County Courthouse
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 Location in the U.S. state of Texas |
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 Texas's location in the U.S. |
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| Founded | 1840 |
| Named for | James Bowie |
| Seat |
Boston (legal); New Boston (courthouse) |
| Largest city | Texarkana |
| Area | |
| • Total | 923 sq mi (2,391 km2) |
| • Land | 885 sq mi (2,292 km2) |
| • Water | 38 sq mi (98 km2), 4.1% |
| Population | |
| • (2010) | 92,565 |
| • Density | 105/sq mi (41/km²) |
| Congressional district | 4th |
| Time zone | Central: UTC-6/-5 |
| Website | www |
Bowie County (/ˈbuː.i/ BOO-ee) is a county located in the U.S. state of Texas. As of the 2010 census, the population was 92,565. Its legal county seat is Boston, though its courthouse is located in New Boston. The county is named for James Bowie, the legendary knife fighter who died at the Battle of the Alamo.
Bowie County is part of the Texarkana, TX-AR Metropolitan Statistical Area.
Bowie County is not one of the 7 prohibition or entirely dry counties in the state of Texas any longer. Both the city of Nash and the city of Texarkana (on November 6, 2013 and November 5, 2014, respectively) have since passed to sell beer and wine.
The farming Caddoan Mississippian culture dates as early as the Late Archaic Period 1500 BCE in Bowie County. The Hernando de Soto expedition of 1541 resulted in violent encounters. Spanish and French missionaries brought a smallpox, measles malaria and influenza epidemics against which the Caddo had no immunity. Eventually, these issues and problems with the Osage, forced the Caddo to abandon their reservations. Settlers had peaceful relations with the 19th Century Shawnee, Delaware, and Kickapoo in the area.
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