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Bowie County ( / ˈbuːi / 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.
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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. [4]
Bowie County Facts. Bowie County Profile from the County Information Project of the Texas Association of Counties. Bowie County Quick Facts from the U.S. Census Bureau. To locate information for the State of Texas and other counties, visit U.S. Census - Texas Quickfacts.
In 2022, Bowie County, TX had a population of 92.7k people with a median age of 38.2 and a median household income of $56,628. Between 2021 and 2022 the population of Bowie County, TX declined from 92,957 to 92,747, a −0.226% decrease and its median household income grew from $54,949 to $56,628, a 3.06% increase.
Sep 30, 2020 · Hunters and traders were active in the area by 1815, and in contiguous Red River County permanent settlement was underway by 1818. Although the details of earliest settlement in Bowie County are not clear, the area was probably settled around 1820, when Miller County, Arkansas, was organized.
Boston, the county seat, is located near the center of the county at 33°27' north latitude and 94°25' west longitude, twenty-one miles west of Texarkana, the county's largest town. The county occupies 891 square miles of the East Texas Timberlands.
