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Howell County, Missouri (view source)
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'''Howell County''' is a county located in the Ozark Mountains of southern [[Missouri]]. It had a population of 40,400 at the 2010 census. One of the larger counties in the Missouri Ozarks, by both land area and population, it was formally organized on March 2, 1851, and named for Josiah Howell, a local notable and a member of one of the first families to settle in the region. [[West Plains, Missouri|West Plains]] is the county seat and the largest city.
'''Howell County''' is a county located in the Ozark Mountains of southern [[Missouri]]. It had a population of 40,400 at the 2010 census. One of the larger counties in the Missouri Ozarks, by both land area and population, it was formally organized on March 2, 1851, and named for Josiah Howell, a local notable and a member of one of the first families to settle in the region. [[West Plains, Missouri|West Plains]] is the county seat and the largest city.
==Geography==
Howell County is located in the center of Missouri's southernmost tier of counties, along the border with [[Arkansas]]. It is rectangular in shape, about 38 miles in extent from north to south compared with about 24 miles from west to east. It is bordered on the northeast by [[Shannon County, Missouri|Shannon County]], on the east by [[Oregon County, Missouri|Oregon County]], on the south by the state of Arkansas, on the west by Ozark County, on the northwest by Douglas County, and on the north by Texas County.
The county has a total area of 928.37 square miles, including 927.25 of land and 1.12 of water. It is the fourth-largest county in Missouri by area.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20131021170230/http://www.census.gov/geo/maps-data/data/docs/gazetteer/counties_list_29.txt</ref> Though located within the Ozark Mountains (sometimes called the Ozarks Plateau), most of Howell County, apart from some more rugged uplands in the northwest and extreme north, is generally level, characterized in many places by rolling prairies, especially in and around West Plains. The highest elevation, about 1,560 feet above sea level, is along the Texas County line northwest of Willow Springs; the lowest elevation is about 750 feet along the Eleven Point River as it flows east into Oregon County, but most of the terrain is closer to about 1,000 feet.<ref>https://www.peakbagger.com/peak.aspx?pid=6559</ref>
There are three federal highways in the county: U.S. Route 60, which crosses its northern edge, including the cities of Mountain View and Willow Springs; Route 63, which roughly bisects it from northwest to southeast and passes through West Plains; and Route 160, which crosses west to east through its center and intersects Route 63 at West Plains. Other major highways include Missouri State Highways 14, 17, 76, and 142.
==Communities==
==Communities==
* [[Pomona, Missouri|Pomona]]
* [[Pomona, Missouri|Pomona]]
* [[South Fork, Missouri|South Fork]]
* [[South Fork, Missouri|South Fork]]
==References==
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[[Category:Counties]]
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