Bowler is an

unincorporated community An unincorporated area is a parcel of land that is not governed by a local general-purpose municipal corporation. (At p. 178.) They may be governed or serviced by an encompassing unit (such as a county) or another branch of the state (such as th ...

located in Carbon County,

Montana Montana ( ) is a landlocked U.S. state, state in the Mountain states, Mountain West subregion of the Western United States. It is bordered by Idaho to the west, North Dakota to the east, South Dakota to the southeast, Wyoming to the south, an ...

, United States at . The elevation is 4,698 feet. Bowler appears on the Bowler U.S. Geological Survey Map.

History

Bowler was an isolated agricultural community established in the late 1890s, situated in a valley at the foot of the

Pryor Mountains The Pryor Mountains are a mountain range in Carbon and Big Horn counties of Montana, and Big Horn County, Wyoming. They are located on the Crow Indian Reservation and the Custer National Forest, and portions of them are on private land. They l ...

. A post office operated in Bowler from 1894 to 1936, there was also a bar and a cemetery situated just outside town. A few buildings and foundations located away from Pryor Mountain Road are all that remains today.

References

Unincorporated communities in Carbon County, Montana Unincorporated communities in Montana {{CarbonCountyMT-geo-stub