Howards Ridge, Missouri

{{Short description|Unincorporated community in the American state of Missouri}}

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Howards Ridge is an unincorporated community in southeastern Ozark County in the southern Missouri Ozarks, United States.{{GNIS|719921|name=Howards Ridge}} It is located seven miles southeast of Gainesville and 2.15 miles north of the Arkansas border, at the intersection of Ozark County routes J and T. The community is at an elevation of 880 feet and lies two and a half miles west of Norfork Lake.Udall Quadrangle, Missouri–Ozark County, 7.5 minute quad., USGS, 1968

Howards Ridge was served by a U.S. Post Office from 1905 to 1978.{{Cite web |url=http://www.missouripostalhistory.org/oz153ge.htm |title=Post Offices in Ozark County, MO |access-date=2013-04-15 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131021183601/http://missouripostalhistory.org/oz153ge.htm |archive-date=2013-10-21 |url-status=dead }} The community has the name of the Howard family which settled a nearby ridge.{{cite web | url =http://shsmo.org/manuscripts/ramsay/ramsay_ozark.html | archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160624071830/http://shsmo.org/manuscripts/ramsay/ramsay_ozark.html | archivedate = June 24, 2016 | url-status = live | title=Ozark County Place Names, 1928–1945 | publisher=The State Historical Society of Missouri| accessdate= November 27, 2016}}