Howard Georgia Map

About Howard, Georgia

Howard is a locality in Cobb County, Georgia, United States. It is a small community with a population of 50. The population density is 6.7 people per km². Howard is located at 32.6041°N, 84.3791°W. It observes the Eastern Time (America/New_York) timezone. ZIP codes: 31006, 31039, 30126.

Howard emerges from the red-clay piedmont as a landscape of quiet endurance, where the earth yields to the steady, unadorned growth of longleaf pine and the sprawling, emerald reach of kudzu. It lies 1.7 miles south-southeast of Mableton, GA (from Mableton, GA: bearing 166°T), and is situated 7.1 miles south-southwest of Smyrna. The air here holds a heavy, humid stillness that seems to press against the horizon, where the distant, hazy silhouette of the Appalachian Mountains serves as a permanent, silent spectator to the plains. Lake Starling sits at the center of this terrain, its surface reflecting the shifting amber light of dusk with a clarity that renders the sky twice as vast. Three miles away, the Chattahoochee River carves a deliberate path through the basin, its currents moving with an ancient, patient rhythm that defines the physical character of the land.

Howard carries the weight of a history rooted in the soil, where the economy has long been dictated by the seasonal cycle of peach orchards and the sturdy yield of pecan groves. The Greenspace Program Acquisition provides a sanctuary of protected growth, preserving the integrity of the natural environment against the encroaching pace of the modern world. Life moves with a gravity attuned to the land rather than the clock, an existence punctuated by the occasional traveler seeking the quietude of the Memorial Park Trail ten miles to the north. In the fading heat of a summer afternoon, the atmosphere feels dense with the memory of labor, a place where the stillness is not an absence of sound, but a profound, collective attention to the earth beneath one's feet.

About This Howard Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Howard, Georgia. Coordinates: 32.604098, -84.379104. Live weather conditions are sourced directly from the National Weather Service. Real-time local and world news feeds keep the page current.

Detailed location data for Howard includes the ZIP code (31006, 31039, 30126), telephone area code (404, 470, 678, 912), county seat of Cobb County (Marietta), and school district assignment (Taylor County School District).

Location data is drawn from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) and cross-verified against 2020 US Census records by coordinate proximity. Population figures are sourced from the 2020 US Census.