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Fowler is a village in Dallas Township, Clinton County, in central Michigan, and it remains a small farming community that also serves as a satellite community to Lansing.

The settlement began along the Detroit, Grand Haven and Milwaukee Railroad, whose line was completed through the area in the summer of 1857; the community was first called Dallas, then Isabella.

The town was originally laid out on swampy ground and grew so little that it was moved about a tenth of a mile west onto land owned by John N. Fowler, and in 1869 the name was changed to Fowler in his honor.

Fowler was settled in 1867, platted in 1870, and incorporated as a village in 1885, reportedly during a high-growth lumber boom.

The 2020 census counted 1,226 people in Fowler; at the 2010 census the village had 1,208 residents living in 451 households.

Fowler sits on highway M-21 in western Clinton County and has its own village government and its own school system despite its small size.

A massive flood in 1905 washed out a railroad culvert three and a half miles west of the village, one of the more dramatic events in Fowler's early history.