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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 above sea level. As of the 2010 census, its population was 42.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://factfinder2.census.gov/main.html )〕 Eighty miles (130 km) from Boise on State Highway 21, the "Ponderosa Pine Scenic Byway,"〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=Visit Idaho )〕 Lowman is at the junction with the "Banks-Lowman Highway"; now designated Highway 2512A. It is the "Wildlife Canyon Scenic Byway,"〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=Visit Idaho )〕 it vertically descends 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."〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=Visit Idaho )〕 The "Highway to Heaven" trail, stretching more than 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 and switches back down to Lowman. The route then climbs with the South Fork of the Payette River up and over Banner Summit at to Stanley, where it meets State Highway 75 and the Sawtooths. The community was named for a homesteader, Nathaniel Winfield Lowman, from Polk County, Iowa. He settled here in 1907, and when he started a post office four years later, it was named for him. 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. A devastating wildfire ravaged the area around Lowman in 1989; it destroyed and 26 structures, but without injuries or fatalities. Lowman has an area of ; is land, and is water. ==Notable residents== *Gordon Bess, cartoonist of ''Redeye" *Casey Lund, reporter at ''ABC News KXLY-TV - Spokane'' 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Lowman, Idaho」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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