Blood, Trauma, and Biohazard Cleanup in Bowman, AR

Bowman is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Craighead County in northeastern Arkansas — a different place from the separate community also named Bowman in Chicot County.

Bowman was first listed as a census-designated place in the 2020 census, which recorded a population of 75 people.

The Bowman CDP covers about 1.6 square miles of Craighead County farmland, giving it a population density of roughly 48 people per square mile in 2020.

The 2020 census counted 26 households in Bowman, 24 of them family households, and every occupied home in the CDP was owner-occupied — Bowman recorded no renter-occupied housing at all.

Of Bowman's 39 housing units in 2020, 13 stood vacant, so about a third of the community's housing stock was empty at census time.

Bowman's 2020 population was about 89 percent white (non-Hispanic), with Hispanic or Latino residents making up 8 percent of the total.

Bowman had an unusually male population in 2020: the census counted 47 males and 28 females, and the median age was 39.4 years.

A post office was established at Bowman in 1897, reflecting the community's roots as a small rural settlement in the farming country east of Jonesboro.

At 3:08 p.m. CDT on April 27, 2011, a tornado struck Bowman as part of the 2011 Super Outbreak, one of the largest tornado outbreaks in American history.

The 2011 Bowman tornado was rated EF1 with winds of 90 mph, cut a path 250 yards wide and 1.6 miles long, damaged the roofs of five homes and a business garage, and destroyed a storage shed.