Howardville, Missouri

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1939 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Lewis Township. It lies in ZIP code area 63869. The Survey maps it on the New Madrid quadrangle. 277 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 292 feet above sea level.

Howardville within New Madrid County

On record in Howardville

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Howardville Schoollisted 2017

Population over time

2 figures

Howardville fell from 383 to 277 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

Year	People	Change
2010	383
2020	277	-106 (-28%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 15 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

1939 USGS New Madrid quadrangle1:62500
1951 USGS New Madrid SE quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1954 USGS New Madrid quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1956 USGS Dyersburg quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1971 USGS New Madrid quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1973 USGS New Madrid quadrangle1:62500
1985 USGS Sikeston quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

1 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Howardville in 2017, burning about 1 acre in total. None started naturally. None was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause	Fires
Debris and open burning	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
29 January 2017	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in New Madrid County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Howardville: 9 past producers, 1 plant. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Aluminum, Contained or Metal. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
New Madrid	Aluminum, Contained or Metal	Plant
Borrow Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Borrow Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Borrow Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Borrow Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Borrow Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Borrow Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Borrow Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Borrow Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Borrow Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in New Madrid County

Storms near this place

9 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Howardville in 9 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 2 flood, 1 tornado. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
April 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Howardville	$8,000	A new farmer's market and flea market structure was destroyed. The structure was an open structure with no solid walls. A temporary booth-like structure used for auctions was blown over. The damage was near the 44-mile marker on Interstate 55.
May 1993	Thunderstorm Wind	Howardville	$5,000	Several trees and power lines were blown down and a roof was torn off a gas station in New Madrid. A mobile home was overturned in Howardville by high wind. Reported by the county sheriff office.
October 1998	Flash Flood	Howardville	$5,000	no account filed
June 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Howardville	$1,000	A tree was down.
March 2025	Hail	Howardville	-	Half dollar to ping pong ball size hail occurred just southwest of New Madrid at U.S. 61/62 and Interstate 55.
April 2014	Flash Flood	Howardville	-	Numerous roads were underwater. Several roads were closed. Schools were closed the following day in some districts. A storm-total rainfall of 7.9 inches was reported during the past 24 hours at Parma.
May 2009	Flood	Howardville	-	Minor flooding of the Mississippi River occurred for most of the month of May. At the New Madrid gage, where flood stage is 34 feet, the river crested at 39.11 feet on the 15th. Agricultural bottomland and low-lying areas were flooded.
March 2008	Flood	Howardville	-	Moderate flooding of the Mississippi River occurred. At the New Madrid gage, the river crested at 41.44 feet on March 27. Flood stage there is 34 feet, and moderate flooding begins at 40 feet. Large areas of agricultural land were flooded. Spring planting was not yet underway, so crop losses were negligible.
July 1997	Tornado (F0)	Howardville	-	A nearly stationary tornado was observed for a few minutes. Several law enforcement personnel confirmed the tornado. The brief tornado, which was not associated with any severe thunderstorms, caused no damage over open farmland.

Every storm recorded in New Madrid County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Lilbourn	1.8 miles	15
North Lilbourn	2.5 miles	15
Cody (historical)	3.0 miles	15
Otis	3.1 miles	15
Sky	3.1 miles	11
Marston	3.5 miles	15
New Madrid	4.1 miles	15
Dodds	4.5 miles	11

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on Howardville	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q126068	The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 719923. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.