| Loch Howie | |
| Pushpin Map: | Scotland Dumfries and Galloway |
| Location: | Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland |
| Coords: | 55.1281°N -4.0458°W[1] |
| Type: | freshwater loch |
| Outflow: | Mid Burn |
| Basin Countries: | Scotland |
| Length: | 0.75miles[2] |
| Width: | 0.125miles |
| Area: | 17.7ha |
| Depth: | 16feet |
| Max-Depth: | 31feet |
| Volume: | 31000000ft3 |
| Shore: | 2.6km (01.6miles) |
| Elevation: | 233m (764feet) |
| Islands: | 0 |
Loch Howie is a small, narrow, upland freshwater loch on the north side of Blackcraig Hill, approximately 18miles west of Dumfries, Scotland. The loch trends from south-west to north-east and is 0.75miles long by approximately 0.25miles at its widest point. It has an average depth of 16feet and is 39feet at its deepest. The loch was surveyed on 23 July 1903 by James Murray[3] as part of Sir John Murray's Bathymetrical Survey of Fresh-Water Lochs of Scotland 1897-1909.
The loch is popular for fishing and is populated with perch, pike and roach.[4]