THE BOWIE LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Broken Red Plains setting.
Bowie city has 5.52 square miles of land in Montague County. Its Census reference point is in Broken Red Plains, within Central Great Plains.
These plains are lower and somewhat more irregular than the High Plains to the west. Their grassland setting includes rolling terrain and a transition toward greater rainfall in the east.
Regional context: Central Great Plains ↗ · Classification at the Census reference point
Bowie and Montague County
Bowie is associated with Montague County in the Census boundary data. Start with the parcel’s tax bill to match the property to that jurisdiction, then confirm which government handles its land use.
Bowie by land and water
The Census records 0.02 square miles of water within Bowie, or 0.4% of its total area. It is 0.4 percentage points lower than the 0.8% recorded for Montague County. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Bowie city has 1.1 times the land area of nearby Sunset CDP (4.94 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.

