Lowell is a city in Kent County of the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 3,783 at the 2010 census.

Lowell is ration of the Grand Rapids metropolitan Place and is about 15 miles (24.1 km) east of the city of Grand Rapids. The city is mostly amid Lowell Township to the south, but the two are administered autonomously. Lowell is situated just north of where the Flat River meets the Grand River. The city’s downtown Place is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as the Downtown Lowell Historic District.

The earliest broadminded residents of the Flat River and Grand River were the Grand River Odawa, who received several villages along the Grand River. In the first decades of the 19th century, the village was led by Wabiwindego and Keewaycooshcum, and forward-looking by Cobmoosa. In the 1830s, Cobmoosa purchased the land under the Odawa village in the publicize of his father, fur trader Antoine Campau. The Odawa remained at their village on the Flat River until 1858, when they moved to a reservation at Manistee, Michigan.

The forward looking city of Lowell was founded in 1831 by Daniel Marsac as a trading post once this existing Odawa village, built upon the south bank of the Grand River. During the first years of his trading post, Marsac lived bearing in mind the Grand River Odawa leader Wabiwindego. In 1847, he purchased land upon the north side of the river and platted it as “Dansville”. In 1851, a pronounce office was usual there named “Lowell” after the township. The community was replatted in 1854 and renamed after the read out office. It incorporated as a village in 1861.