Gowen, Oklahoma

“There is an old house, that this man had lived in his whole life. He lived there with his parents, then lived there after they passed. He raised his children and died in that house. He lay dead in his house for days before anyone discovered him, and in the early evening time and later at night, if you walk by the house, you can either see the figure of an elderly man staring out the front window, sitting on the porch, or hear the mournful moans of someone.”

http://www.ghostsofamerica.com/7/Oklahoma_Gowen_ghost_sightings.html

Gowen has had a post office since 1894. zipcode.org has the latest population at 298. Of those, 235 are white, 51 are Indian, 2 are Hispanic, and 1 is Other. By my math, that totals 289. Maybe somebody transposed the 8 and 9. The same site says the population is 140 men and 158 women. Those numbers total 298.

https://thediggings.com/places/ok077-99937766/mines lists 10 mines in the Gowen area.

The nearest Social Security office is in McAlester, 21.5 miles away.

https://www.publichousing.com/city/ok-gowen says “There are 0 Affordable Apartment in or near Gowen, OK." Note to government writers: The grammatically correct notice would be “0 Affordable Apartments.”

https://www.wetakesection8.com/search/OK/gowen/ echoes, with “No Matching Listings Found,” but lists several in Wilburton.

Here is a link to a satellite image of the Gowen area:

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Gowen,+OK+74545/@34.8677634,-95.4889106,2166m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x87b5118784c1d669:0x6d569f04457706fd!8m2!3d34.8698173!4d-95.4897335

Gowen is in Latimer County, in Southeast Oklahoma.