Howards Ridge, Missouri

Howards Ridge is an unincorporated community in southeastern Ozark County in the southern Missouri Ozarks, United States.^[1] 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.^[2]

Howards Ridge was served by a U.S. Post Office from 1905 to 1978.^[3] The community has the name of the Howard family which settled a nearby ridge.^[4]