| Official Name: | Howe, Indiana |
| Settlement Type: | Census-designated place |
| Pushpin Map: | Indiana#USA |
| Pushpin Label: | Howe |
| Pushpin Label Position: | bottom |
| Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in Indiana##Location in the United States |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Name: | United States |
| Subdivision Type1: | State |
| Subdivision Name1: | Indiana |
| Subdivision Type2: | County |
| Subdivision Name2: | LaGrange |
| Subdivision Type3: | Township |
| Subdivision Name3: | Lima |
| Area Total Km2: | 4.63 |
| Area Land Km2: | 4.63 |
| Area Water Km2: | 0.00 |
| Population As Of: | 2020 |
| Population Total: | 610 |
| Population Density Km2: | 131.74 |
| Coordinates: | 41.7228°N -85.4256°W |
| Elevation Ft: | 876 |
| Postal Code Type: | ZIP code |
| Postal Code: | 46746 |
| Blank Name: | FIPS code |
| Blank Info: | 18-34978 |
| Blank1 Name: | GNIS feature ID |
| Blank1 Info: | 2629774 |
| Unit Pref: | Imperial |
| Area Footnotes: | [1] |
| Area Total Sq Mi: | 1.79 |
| Area Land Sq Mi: | 1.79 |
| Area Water Sq Mi: | 0.00 |
| Population Density Sq Mi: | 341.16 |
Howe is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Lima Township, LaGrange County, Indiana. As of the 2010 census its population was 807.[2]
Howe was settled in 1834. At that time, it was named "Mongoquinong", a name that the Potawatomi people had given to the prairie in northeastern Indiana. Shortly thereafter it was renamed "Lima" and was, at that time, the county seat. It was later renamed "Howe" after John B. Howe, a local attorney.[3]
The Howe Military School, the town's most famous attraction, was founded in 1884.
Sites in Howe on the National Register of Historic Places are:
Kingsbury Hotel
Howe is located in northern LaGrange County at the intersection of State Road 120 and State Road 9. It is the principal community in Lima Township. It is 2miles south of Interstate 80/90 (the Indiana Toll Road), and 5miles north of LaGrange, the county seat.
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the Howe census-designated place has an area of 4.6sqkm, all of it recorded as land.[4] The Pigeon River, a tributary of the St. Joseph River, flows westward along the southern edge of the community.