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Howards Grove is a village in Sheboygan County, Wisconsin, and part of the Sheboygan metropolitan area, about ten miles northwest of the city of Sheboygan.

The first settlers arrived in 1846, German immigrant families - many of them 'Lippers' from the Principality of Lippe - who cleared farms in the wilderness of the Town of Herman.

Howards Grove was named after Herman B. Howard, who bought land in 1848 and built the Howard Hotel among a grove of trees; he also became the community's postmaster, and the first post office opened in 1849.

The southern half of today's village was a separate community called Millersville, named after H. G. Mueller, who built a home and sawmill there in the 1850s.

Howards Grove and Millersville finally united and incorporated as a single village on August 1, 1967, under the name Howards Grove-Millersville - at 24 letters, the longest municipality name in Wisconsin - before voters shortened it to Howards Grove a few years later.

F. Beckfeld was among the very first settlers in 1846, and in 1848 E. W. Schlichting founded the area's first school district and built its first school.

Farming has ruled Howards Grove since the 1840s; settlers first grew oats and wheat, but by 1899 local farmers had shifted their focus to dairy farming, according to the Sheboygan Telegram of November 29, 1899.

Howards Grove has grown steadily for decades, rising from 998 residents in 1970 to 2,807 in 2000 and 3,237 at the 2020 census.

The 2010 census counted 3,188 people living in 1,245 households in Howards Grove, with an average household size of 2.56 people.

All three schools of the Howards Grove School District - Northview Elementary School, Howards Grove Middle School and Howards Grove High School - are located inside the village, together serving almost 1,000 students.