Lowman, Idaho

File:Lowman Schoolhouse and Yard.jpg

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The community was named for a homesteader, Nathaniel Winfield Lowman, from Polk County, Iowa, who settled there in 1907.{{cite web |title=Idaho Highway Historical Marker Guide |url=https://history.idaho.gov/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Idaho-Highway-Historical-Marker-Guide.pdf |publisher=Idaho Transportation Department |pages=48 |accessdate=6 July 2019}}

Lowman is notable for having a one-room school, one of only a couple hundred still in use in the United States.{{Cite web |last=Jacobsen |first=Sarah |date=2017-10-24 |title=Lowman Elementary may only be one room, but it has a lot of heart |url=https://idahonews.com/news/local/lowman-elementary-may-only-be-one-room-but-it-has-a-lot-of-heart |access-date=2022-03-21 |website=KBOI |language=en}}

A devastating wildfire ravaged the area around Lowman {{Years or months ago|1989}} in 1989; it destroyed over {{convert|45000|acre|mi2 km2}} and 26 structures, but without injuries or fatalities.{{cite news |date=August 23, 1989 |title=Lowman fire contained after one month |page=5B |work=Lewiston Morning Tribune |agency=Associated Press |location=(Idaho) |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=IXdfAAAAIBAJ&sjid=ii8MAAAAIBAJ&pg=3258%2C2175779}}{{cite news |date=September 22, 1989 |title=Lowman blaze cleanup to cost $3.6 million |page=B1 |newspaper=Spokesman-Review |agency=Associated Press |location=Spokane, Washington |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=cllWAAAAIBAJ&sjid=2u8DAAAAIBAJ&pg=3762%2C1001979}}{{cite news |date=July 30, 1990 |title='Against all the odds,' Lowman forest heals |page=A9 |newspaper=Spokesman-Review |agency=Associated Press |location=Spokane, Washington |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=VJlRAAAAIBAJ&sjid=XQgEAAAAIBAJ&pg=2906%2C6692780}}{{clear left}}

{{convert|80|mi|spell=In}} from Boise on State Highway 21, the "Ponderosa Pine Scenic Byway,"{{cite web |url=http://www.visitidaho.org/scenic-byways/ponderosa-pine-scenic-byway/ |publisher=Visit Idaho |title=Ponderosa Pine Scenic Byway |accessdate=October 26, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150906142613/http://www.visitidaho.org/scenic-byways/ponderosa-pine-scenic-byway/ |archive-date=September 6, 2015 |url-status=dead |df=mdy-all }} Lowman is at the junction with the {{convert|33|mi|adj=on}} "Banks-Lowman Highway"; now designated Highway 2512A. It is the "Wildlife Canyon Scenic Byway,"{{cite web| url=http://www.visitidaho.org/scenic-byways/wildlife-canyon-scenic-byway/ |publisher=Visit Idaho |title=Wildlife Canyon Scenic Byway |accessdate=October 26, 2015}} which heads west and descends nearly {{convert|1000|ft||adj=pre|vertical|spell=in}} with the whitewater of the South Fork to its confluence with the North Fork at Banks, the junction with State Highway 55, the "Payette River Scenic Byway."{{cite web |url=http://www.visitidaho.org/scenic-byways/payette-river-scenic-byway/ |publisher=Visit Idaho |title=Payette River Scenic Byway |accessdate=October 26, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150905101450/http://www.visitidaho.org/scenic-byways/payette-river-scenic-byway/ |archive-date=September 5, 2015 |url-status=dead |df=mdy-all }}

The "Highway to Heaven" trail, stretching more than {{convert|150|mi}} from Idaho's capital of Boise, is the only mountain passage in the West that begins from a major city. The trail winds from 8th Street in Boise and climbs the Boise River, past the Lucky Peak Dam. Sagebrush gives way to gentle pine slopes leading to historic Idaho City, then over Mores Creek Summit at {{convert|6117|ft|abbr=on}}. The road descends over {{convert|1000|ft||adj=pre|vertical|spell=in}} then climbs to Beaver Creek Summit ({{convert|6041|ft|abbr=on}}) and switches back down to Lowman. The route then climbs with the South Fork of the Payette River up and over Banner Summit at {{convert|7056|ft|abbr=on}} to Stanley, where it meets State Highway 75, just northeast of the Sawtooths.

Lowman is in a geothermally active region; natural hot springs surface in the middle of the community as well as in many other places in the surrounding mountains.

Lowman has an area of {{convert|2.078|mi2|km2}}; {{convert|2.039|mi2|km2}} is land, and {{convert|0.039|mi2|km2}} is water

This climatic region is typified by large seasonal temperature differences, with warm to hot (and often humid) summers and cold (sometimes severely cold) winters. According to the Köppen Climate Classification system, Lowman has a humid continental climate, abbreviated "Dfb" on climate maps.[http://www.weatherbase.com/weather/weather-summary.php3?s=624502&cityname=Lowman%2C+Idaho%2C+United+States+of+America&units= Climate Summary for Lowman, Idaho]

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• 25px - SH-21 - to Idaho City and Boise (south) and Stanley (north)

• Gordon Bess, cartoonist of Redeye
• Robin Fontes returned to Idaho after a military career, retired a Major General

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• [http://itd.idaho.gov/historic_markers/markers.asp?marker=LOWMAN Roadside historical marker in Lowman]{{dead link|date=January 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}

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