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Bowman County, North Dakota

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—newspaper titles

—digitized titles

2historic places

—earliest paper

1883formed

2,993pop. 2020

12cemeteries

—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 2 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1980. Most listings are in or near Rhame, Bowman.

Summary generated automatically from the source data on this page.

Newspapers

Library of Congress

Newspaper directory data for North Dakota is not yet loaded on this site. Browse Bowman titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

1 of 2 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

2 listed properties

Property	City	Type	Listed
Fort Dilts	Rhame	Site	1980
Schade, Emma Petznick and Otto, House (Additional Documentation)	Bowman	Building	2008

Source: National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Property links open NRHP nomination files at the National Archives.

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Bowman was formed in 1883 (1883-03-08) from Billings.

BOWMAN created by Dakota Territory in present North Dakota from BILLINGS.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

Bowman County population from 1890 to 2020 (Census historical series).

1890	1920	1940	1950	1960	1980	2000	2020
6	4,768	3,860	4,001	4,154	4,229	3,242	2,993

Sources: U.S. Census Bureau historical county population (Forstall 1790–1990) and public-domain / CC0 county population series through 2020.

Cemeteries & historical places

USGS GNIS

12 cemeteries and 0 historical populated places (ghost towns / former settlements) recorded in USGS GNIS for this county.

Cemeteries — 12 of 12 listed

Name	Lat	Lon
Bethany Lutheran Church Cemetery	46.07709	-103.66192
Bowman Cemetery	46.17806	-103.41295
Fort Dilts Cemetery	46.27908	-103.77646
Gascoyne Cemetery	46.11241	-103.08834
Grand River Cemetery	45.98911	-103.4933
Haley Catholic Cemetery	45.97369	-103.1198
Haley Cemetery	45.96652	-103.12949
Peace Lutheran Cemetery - Scranton Cemetery	46.16333	-103.14184
Sacred Heart Cemetery	46.16404	-103.14155
Saint Charles Catholic Cemetery	46.17834	-103.41408
Tuttle Cemetery	46.22722	-103.70102
Union Prairie Lutheran Cemetery	46.08307	-103.24399

Source: USGS Geographic Names Information System (public domain). Cemeteries from the 2021 NationalFile archive; historical places from GNIS HistoricalFeatures topical extract.

Historical markers

HMdb link

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