Blood & Biohazard Cleanup Near Downtown Howe Howe, TX

Howe is a town in southern Grayson County on U.S. Highway 75, about ten miles south of Sherman, and it is part of the Sherman–Denison metropolitan statistical area.

Howe's first settlers were Jabez and Harriet Haning and Jabez's brother John, who received land through the Peters Colony after arriving from Pennsylvania before 1850.

Local tradition holds that the last Indian battle fought in Grayson County took place in the Howe area in 1843.

When the Houston and Texas Central Railway built through the area in 1873, the railroad switch at Howe was called "Summit" because, at about 810 feet above sea level, it was supposed to be the highest point between the Red River and the Gulf of Mexico.

In 1876 the depot, store, and post office were renamed Howe, after F. M. Howe, an official of the Houston and Texas Central Railway.

Howe incorporated in 1884, and George M. McCrary served as its first mayor.

By the late 1880s Howe had become a major grain-shipping center and was known as the home of Red Rust-proof Oats.

By 1914 Howe had the Farmers National Bank, the Howe Herald newspaper, three grain elevators, and an ice plant, along with Interurban electric train service running between Denison and Dallas.

Howe remained primarily an agricultural center throughout most of its history, although some oil has also been produced in the area.

Howe covers about 5.1 square miles of land; it counted 2,600 residents in the 2010 census and 3,571 in the 2020 census.