Gowan
Gowan is an unincorporated community in Floodwood Township, Saint Louis County, Minnesota, United States. The community is located five miles southeast of Floodwood at the intersection of U.S. Highway 2 and Saint Louis County Road 86.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Hamlet
- Description: unincorporated community in St. Louis County, Minnesota
- Also known as: “Gowan, Minnesota”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Floodwood.
Floodwood
Village
Photo: MNTRT2009, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Floodwood is a city in Saint Louis County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 518 as of September 2025 Originally a logging community, Floodwood was a dairy community for most of its history, but could now be best described as a bedroom community, since most of its working population finds employment in nearby Duluth, Grand Rapids, Hibbing and Cloquet. Floodwood is situated 6 miles northwest of Gowan.
Gowan
- Categories: unincorporated community in the United States and locality
- Location: Floodwood Township, St. Louis, Minnesota, Midwest, United States, North America
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Latitude
46.86411° or 46° 51′ 51″ northLongitude
-92.84715° or 92° 50′ 50″ westElevation
1,263 feet (385 metres)Open location code
86R9V573+J4OpenStreetMap ID
node 151844390OpenStreetMap feature
place=hamlet
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Gowan” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Gowan”
- Aragonese: “Gowan”
- Arpitan: “Gowan”
- Asturian: “Gowan”
- Bambara: “Gowan”
- Basque: “Gowan”
- Bavarian: “Gowan”
- Breton: “Gowan”
- Cajun French: “Gowan”
- Catalan: “Gowan”
- Chinese: “高恩”
- Corsican: “Gowan”
- Croatian: “Gowan”
- Czech: “Gowan”
- Danish: “Gowan”
- Dutch: “Gowan”
- Esperanto: “Gowan”
- Estonian: “Gowan”
- Finnish: “Gowan”
- French: “Gowan”
- Friulian: “Gowan”
- Galician: “Gowan”
- German: “Gowan”
- Hungarian: “Gowan”
- Ido: “Gowan”
- Indonesian: “Gowan”
- Interlingua: “Gowan”
- Interlingue: “Gowan”
- Irish: “Gowan”
- Italian: “Gowan”
- Jamaican Creole English: “Gowan”
- Kabyle: “Gowan”
- Kongo: “Gowan”
- Latvian: “Gowan”
- Ligurian: “Gowan”
- Limburgan: “Gowan”
- Lithuanian: “Gowan”
- Low German: “Gowan”
- Luxembourgish: “Gowan”
- Mainfränkisch: “Gowan”
- Malagasy: “Gowan”
- Malay: “Gowan”
- Minangkabau: “Gowan”
- Narom: “Gowan”
- Neapolitan: “Gowan”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Gowan”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Gowan”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Gowan”
- Papiamento: “Gowan”
- Persian: “گوان، مینهسوتا”
- Persian: “گوان”
- Picard: “Gowan”
- Piemontese: “Gowan”
- Polish: “Gowan”
- Portuguese: “Gowan”
- Prussian: “Gowan”
- Romagnol: “Gowan”
- Romanian: “Gowan”
- Romansh: “Gowan”
- Sardinian: “Gowan”
- Scots: “Gowan”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Gowan”
- Sicilian: “Gowan”
- Slovak: “Gowan”
- South Azerbaijani: “قووان، مینهسوتا”
- Spanish: “Gowan”
- Swahili: “Gowan”
- Swedish: “Gowan”
- Swiss German: “Gowan”
- Turkish: “Gowan”
- Venetian: “Gowan”
- Vietnamese: “Gowan”
- Vlaams: “Gowan”
- Volapük: “Gowan”
- Walloon: “Gowan”
- Welsh: “Gowan”
- Wolof: “Gowan”
- Zulu: “Gowan”
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