Official Name: | Bowers, Indiana |
Pushpin Map: | USA Indiana Montgomery County |
Pushpin Label: | Bowers |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in Montgomery County |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | United States |
Subdivision Type1: | State |
Subdivision Name1: | Indiana |
Subdivision Type2: | County |
Subdivision Name2: | Montgomery |
Subdivision Type3: | Township |
Subdivision Name3: | Sugar Creek |
Timezone: | Eastern (EST) |
Utc Offset: | -5 |
Timezone Dst: | EDT |
Utc Offset Dst: | -4 |
Coordinates: | 40.1569°N -86.7247°W |
Elevation Ft: | 814 |
Postal Code Type: | ZIP code |
Postal Code: | 47940 |
Area Code: | 765 |
Blank Name: | FIPS code |
Blank Info: | 18-06796[1] |
Blank1 Name: | GNIS feature ID |
Blank1 Info: | 431396 |
Bowers is an unincorporated community in Sugar Creek Township, Montgomery County, in the U.S. state of Indiana.
Bowers was platted by Christina and L. M. Dunbar in 1901.[2] L. M. Dunbar was Lewis Morton Dunbar.Bowers was originally named "Bowers Station" and was a railroad stop.
Previously Bowers had its own elementary school, while high school students went to school in Darlington. In 1959, the Bowers elementary school merged into the Darlington Elementary School.[3]