# Howe, Nebraska

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**Howe** is an [unincorporated community](/source/Unincorporated_area#United_States) in [Nemaha County](/source/Nemaha_County,_Nebraska), [Nebraska](/source/Nebraska), United States.[1] Howe is part of [Zip code](/source/Zip_code) 68305, [Auburn, Nebraska](/source/Auburn,_Nebraska), with the nearest postal facility at Auburn.

## History

A post office was established at Howe in 1882, and remained in operation until it was discontinued in 1962.[2] The community was named for Major Church Howe, an American diplomat.[3]

Howe was a station and shipping point on the [Missouri Pacific Railroad](/source/Missouri_Pacific_Railroad).[4]

## References

1. ["Nemaha County"](http://www.postalhistory.com/postoffices.asp?task=display&state=NE&county=Nemaha). Jim Forte Postal History. Retrieved 20 August 2014.

1. A [1925 edition](http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1000&context=englishunsllc) is available for download at [University of Nebraska—Lincoln Digital Commons.](http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/)

1. Sedgwick, Theron E. (1921). [*York County, Nebraska and Its People: Together with a Condensed History of the State*](https://archive.org/details/yorkcountynebras01sedg). S.J. Clarke. p. [131](https://archive.org/details/yorkcountynebras01sedg/page/131)

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