{{Short description|American geologist and cartographer}} thumb|{{center|Edwin E. Howell}} '''Edwin Eugene Howell''' (March 12, 1845 – April 16, 1911) was an American geologist and cartographer, who produced some of the most detailed raised-relief maps of his time, for which he was regarded by geologist G. K. Gilbert as "a pioneer—if not ''the'' pioneer—in the United States."<ref name="Gilbert 1911">{{cite journal |last1=Gilbert |first1=G. K. |title=Edwin E. Howell |journal=Science |date=1911 |volume=33 |issue=854 |pages=720–721 |doi=10.1126/science.33.854.720 |pmid=17748605|bibcode=1911Sci....33..720G |url=https://zenodo.org/record/2452863 }}</ref> His maps were known internationally, and he produced the first commercial relief map of the Grand Canyon.

Howell was born in Genesee County, New York, and studied at the University of Rochester under the geologist Henry A. Ward. He was geologist of the United States Geological Survey in surveys west of the Rocky Mountains in 1872–73, and was with the government survey of the Rocky Mountain region under John Wesley Powell in 1874. In 1870 he made a relief map of the island of San Domingo, and in 1875 produced his famous relief map of the Grand Canyon. In his later years he devoted his time to the manufacture of geological models and maps first in the Rochester Museum and then in an establishment at Washington, D.C. which he called The Microcosm. He wrote on meteorites, and was a founder of the Geological Society of America. He died in Washington in 1911, aged 66.<ref name="Curtis 1911">{{cite journal |last1=Curtis |first1=G. C. |title=Howell's Relief Maps and the Naturalistic Land Model |journal=Science |date=1911 |volume=34 |issue=863 |pages=45–47 |doi=10.1126/science.34.863.45 |pmid=17775300 |jstor=1638721|bibcode=1911Sci....34...45C |url=https://zenodo.org/record/2466390 }}</ref><ref name="McCalmont2015">{{cite book|first=Melanie Schleeter|last= McCalmont|title=A Wilderness of Rocks: The Impact of Relief Models on Data Science|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=U7F5CgAAQBAJ&pg=PA19|year=2015|publisher=FriesenPress|isbn=978-1-4602-7196-4|pages=19–28}}</ref>

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*{{Source-attribution|{{cite book|author=Hugh Chisholm|title=The Britannica Year-book 1913: A Survey of the World's Progress Since the Completion in 1910 of the Encyclopaedia Britannica|url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.83786|year=1913|publisher=Encyclopaedia britannica Company, limited|page=[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.83786/page/n787 757]}}***Please note a wikilink to this source document is not available*** }}

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