Bowring, Oklahoma

Bowring is located in northern Osage County, approximately {{convert|12|mi|km}} northwest of the city of Bartlesville, and approximately {{convert|19|mi|km}} northeast of Pawhuska, the county seat of Osage County. Bowring is also approximately {{convert|8.4|mi|km}} south of the Oklahoma–Kansas state line. Bowring is served by Oklahoma State Highway 10 (SH-10), which runs from the nearby town of Copan from the east and the unincorporated hamlet of Herd to the west.

{{US Census population

|2020= 78

|footnote=U.S. Decennial Census{{cite web|url=http://www.census.gov/prod/www/decennial.html|title=Census of Population and Housing|publisher=Census.gov|accessdate=June 4, 2016}}

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• Whippoorwill Point (east of Bowring on SH-10)
• Hulah (this is largely a ghost town east of Bowring on SH-10)
• Herd (this is largely a ghost town west of Bowring on SH-10)

Bowring was once served by the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad (AT&SF). Cattle ranchers once drove their cattle to the west side of town to be loaded onto cattle cars to be taken to markets throughout the area. The AT&SF Railroad into Bowring began in Owen Township south of nearby Caney, Kansas, in northern Washington County, through what was Hulah, east of Bowring, then south across the Caney River, then on the south side of Whippoorwill Point, through Bowring and further west into Pawhuska.

The old Hulah Depot that sat near SH-10 has since been moved to Johnstone Park in the nearby city of Bartlesville.

Bowring has two lakes nearby on SH-10: Copan Lake and Dam, west of the town of Copan on the Little Caney River, and Hulah Lake and Dam on the Caney River near the unincorporated hamlet of Whippoorwill Point. Both lakes and dams are in the United States Army Corps of Engineers Tulsa District. The lakes and dams provide flood control protection for the nearby cities of Dewey and Bartlesville. The Caney River has its confluence with the Verdigris River to the northeast of the city of Claremore and is a part of the greater Arkansas River watershed. Both the Little Caney and Caney rivers have their sources in central Kansas.

It is in the Bowring Public School school district.{{cite web|url=https://www2.census.gov/geo/maps/DC2020/PL20/st40_ok/schooldistrict_maps/c40113_osage/DC20SD_C40113.pdf|title=2020 CENSUS - SCHOOL DISTRICT REFERENCE MAP: Osage County, OK|publisher=U.S. Census Bureau|access-date=2024-01-28}}

{{Weather box

|location = Bowring, Oklahoma

|single line = Yes

|Jan high F = 46.1

|Feb high F = 52.1

|Mar high F = 62.6

|Apr high F = 73.6

|May high F = 79.7

|Jun high F = 87.2

|Jul high F = 93.3

|Aug high F = 92.8

|Sep high F = 84.3

|Oct high F = 74.5

|Nov high F = 60.5

|Dec high F = 49.1

|year high F = 71.3

|Jan low F = 22

|Feb low F = 26.9

|Mar low F = 36.5

|Apr low F = 47.7

|May low F = 56.2

|Jun low F = 65

|Jul low F = 69.8

|Aug low F = 67.6

|Sep low F = 60.3

|Oct low F = 47.9

|Nov low F = 36.7

|Dec low F = 26

|year low F = 46.9

|Jan precipitation inch = 1.3

|Feb precipitation inch = 1.8

|Mar precipitation inch = 3.3

|Apr precipitation inch = 3.3

|May precipitation inch = 4.8

|Jun precipitation inch = 4.5

|Jul precipitation inch = 3.2

|Aug precipitation inch = 3.6

|Sep precipitation inch = 4.9

|Oct precipitation inch = 3.2

|Nov precipitation inch = 2.8

|Dec precipitation inch = 1.7

|year precipitation inch = 38.4

|source 1 = Weatherbase.com {{cite web

| url =http://www.weatherbase.com/weather/weatherall.php3?s=539643&refer=

| title = Historical Weather for Bowring, Oklahoma, United States}}

|date=August 2010

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{{Reflist}}

• Shirk, George H. Oklahoma Place Names. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1987. {{ISBN|0-8061-2028-2}} .

{{Osage County, Oklahoma}}

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Category:Unincorporated communities in Osage County, Oklahoma

Category:Unincorporated communities in Oklahoma

Category:Populated places within the Osage Nation reservation

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