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Welcome to Howesville ...

Howesville is located in Clay County<1>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of Howesville, you might consider that their post office opened in 1858.

Howesville is 540 feet [165 m] above sea level.<2>.

Time Zone: Howesville lies in the Eastern Time Zone (EST/EDT) and observes daylight saving time

Note: If you travel west from Howesville (for example, toward Hutsonville (IL)), you will leave Eastern Time and cross into the Central Time Zone (CST/CDT).

Area Codes for Howesville: 812 & 930<3>

Communities Also Named Howesville ...

Using our Gazetteer, we found another community named Howesville - it's located in West Virginia.

For more information, see our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Howesville.

Communities near Howesville ...

We have created a list of 10 communities that are near Howesville.

To Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

We have a couple of sections for those tracing their genealogy.

We created a list of cemeteries that are in the area around Howesville. Our list includes the location of those cemeteries and we provide an overhead view. See our Cemetery List for Howesville.

Using the information from an 1895 Atlas, we've created a list of communities that were in the area of Howesville. Our list includes information such as whether the 1895 community had a post office or railroad service. See our List of 1890's Communities around Howesville.

We also have a detailed list of newspapers that have been published in the area around Howesville. See our Newspapers Page for Howesville.

TripAdvisor Tourism Pages for Howesville ...

Looking for more information about Howesville? A wonderful source is the TripAdvisor website. We always start with the TripAdvisor Tourism page, where you can read an overview with links that will help you find lodging, restaurants and attractions.

While we are unaware of a Tourism page that is specific to Howesville, there are neighboring communities that do have Tourism pages. A map of those communities can be found with our TripAdvisor Page for Howesville.

Adding Howesville to Our Gazetteer ...

We originally found mention of Howesville in both the FIPS-55 and the GNIS. For more information, see the FIPS and GNIS Codes sections on our Miscellaneous Page.

From our notes, the earliest published mention we've found (so far) for Howesville was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<5>

From that list, the Howesville post office opened in 1858. The Howesville post office closed in 1909.

For more details, see References and Mentions for Howesville.

Footnotes ...

<1>If you're interested in how the shape of Indiana's counties, including Clay, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
<2>The elevation is an estimate for the area around Howesville - it will be higher in some places and lower in others.
<3>When there's a risk of an area code running out of phone numbers, an 'Overlay Area Code' is created that has the same geographic boundaries as the existing area code. In this case, the 812 code has been Overlayed with the 930 area code. New phone numbers in the Howesville area will be assigned with one of these codes: 812 or 930. As a result, placing a call in the Howesville area will require 10-digit dialing (where you enter both the area code and then the phone number).
<4>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<5>A copy of the Blevins & Helbock Post Office list with background information can be found at:

      https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/