Howardville Missouri Map

About Howardville, Missouri

Howardville is a locality in New Madrid County, Missouri, United States. It is a small community with a population of 277. The population density is 469.1 people per km². Howardville is located at 36.5681°N, 89.6006°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Howardville is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 63869.

Howardville occupies a flat expanse of the Bootheel, where the horizon stretches wide and unencumbered across the heavy, fertile soil of the Mississippi River floodplain. It lies 21.3 miles south of Sikeston, MO (from Sikeston, MO: bearing 182°T), and is situated 4.2 miles west-southwest of New Madrid. The air here holds a profound stillness, often thick with the scent of turned earth and the humid breath of the low-lying plains that define the regional geography. To the east, the Mississippi River pushes its heavy, silt-laden currents past the landscape, acting as a silent, insistent neighbor to the fields. In the distance, the silhouette of Indian Mound rises as a solitary, ancient interruption to the otherwise uniform flatness of the terrain, while the quiet waters of Point Pleasant Chute remain tucked away seven miles distant, offering a sanctuary for the local flora and fauna.

Howardville maintains a rhythm dictated by the cycles of the agricultural season, with the economy rooted deeply in the cultivation of the surrounding acreage. The history of the region is written in the furrows of the fields, where generations have worked the land under a sky that shifts from a pale, bleached blue at midday to an expansive, bruised violet as the sun retreats. Residents often find their way to the New Madrid Bend Access, a nearby space that provides a rare, quiet vantage point to observe the slow, deliberate movement of the landscape. Life here possesses a singular, unadorned gravity, where the passage of time is marked not by the chime of a clock, but by the gradual change of the crops and the seasonal transformation of the plains.

About This Howardville Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Howardville, Missouri. Coordinates: 36.568116, -89.600634. 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 Howardville includes the ZIP code (63869), telephone area code (816), county seat of New Madrid County (New Madrid), and school district assignment (New Madrid County R-I 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.