Lowman, Idaho

Lowman is a small unincorporated rural census-designated place in the western United States, located in Boise County, Idaho. It is nestled along the north bank of the South Fork of the Payette River in the central part of the state, at an elevation of 3,800 feet (1,160 m) above sea level. As of the 2010 census, its population was 42.[1]

Lowman
Location in the United States
Lowman
Location in Idaho

Eighty miles (130 km) from Boise on State Highway 21, the "Ponderosa Pine Scenic Byway,"[2] Lowman is at the junction with the "Banks-Lowman Highway"; now designated Highway 2512A. It is the "Wildlife Canyon Scenic Byway,"[3] it vertically descends 1,000 feet (300 m) 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."[4]

The "Highway to Heaven" trail, stretching more than 150 miles (240 km) 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 6,117 ft (1,864 m) and switches back down to Lowman. The route then climbs with the South Fork of the Payette River up and over Banner Summit at 7,056 ft (2,151 m) to Stanley, where it meets State Highway 75, just northeast of the Sawtooths.

The community was named for a homesteader, Nathaniel Winfield Lowman, from Polk County, Iowa, who settled there in 1907.[5]

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 is notable for having a one-room school, one of only a couple hundred still in use in the US.

Lowman Schoolhouse and Yard

A devastating wildfire ravaged the area around Lowman 31 years ago in 1989; it destroyed over 45,000 acres (70 sq mi; 180 km2) and 26 structures, but without injuries or fatalities.[6][7][8]

Lowman has an area of 2.078 square miles (5.38 km2); 2.039 square miles (5.28 km2) is land, and 0.039 square miles (0.10 km2) is water.

Demographics
Historical population
CensusPop.%±
200038—
20104210.5%
U.S. Decennial Census[9]

Notable residents

Climate

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.[10]

Transportation
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References
  1. "U.S. Census website". U.S. Census Bureau. Retrieved 23 March 2011.
  2. "Ponderosa Pine Scenic Byway". Visit Idaho. Archived from the original on September 6, 2015. Retrieved October 26, 2015.
  3. "Wildlife Canyon Scenic Byway". Visit Idaho. Retrieved October 26, 2015.
  4. "Payette River Scenic Byway". Visit Idaho. Archived from the original on September 5, 2015. Retrieved October 26, 2015.
  5. "Idaho Highway Historical Marker Guide" (PDF). Idaho Transportation Department. p. 48. Retrieved 6 July 2019.
  6. "Lowman fire contained after one month". Lewiston Morning Tribune. (Idaho). Associated Press. August 23, 1989. p. 5B.
  7. "Lowman blaze cleanup to cost $3.6 million". Spokesman-Review. Spokane, Washington. Associated Press. September 22, 1989. p. B1.
  8. "'Against all the odds,' Lowman forest heals". Spokesman-Review. Spokane, Washington. Associated Press. July 30, 1990. p. A9.
  9. "Census of Population and Housing". Census.gov. Retrieved June 4, 2016.
  10. Climate Summary for Lowman, Idaho



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