Texas
Basic Information
- Type of Place
- Independent City or Town
- Metro Area
- Politics c. 1860?
- Don’t Know
- Unions, Organized Labor?
- Don’t Know
Sundown Town Status
- Sundown Town in the Past?
- Probable
- Was there an ordinance?
- Don't Know
- Sign?
- Perhaps, Some Oral Evidence
- Year of Greatest Interest
- 0
- Still Sundown?
- Probably Not, Although Still Very Few Black People
Census Information
| Total | White | Black | Asian | Native | Hispanic | Other | BHshld | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1860 | ||||||||
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| 1910 | ||||||||
| 1920 | ||||||||
| 1930 | 3131 | 3 | ||||||
| 1940 | 3470 | 3469 | 1 | 0 | ||||
| 1950 | 4544 | 0 | ||||||
| 1960 | ||||||||
| 1970 | 5185 | 5168 | 0 | 6 | 6 | 5 | ||
| 1980 | ||||||||
| 1990 | ||||||||
| 2000 | 5219 | 5008 | 4 | 28 | 38 | 247 | 141 | 1 |
| 2010 | ||||||||
| 2020 |
Method of Exclusion
- Unknown
Main Ethnic Group(s)
- Unknown
Group(s) Excluded
- Black
Comments
Many people remember seeing a sign in the 1920s,
although there is disagreement as to whether or not it
was in the train station or at the city limit. One man
reported having seen it in the 1960s.
A former resident was told there was a sign before he was born and remembers blacks being afraid of going near Bowie.