Howe is a town in Grayson County, Texas, United States. The population was 3,451 in the 2020 U.S. Census. It is portion of the Sherman–Denison metropolitan statistical area.

The first settlers in the Place arrived approximately the mature of the Texas Revolution in 1836. In 1843, the last Indian battle in Grayson County was said to have been fought in the area. The first settlers of Howe were Jabez and Harriet Haning, and Jabez’s brother John. They usual land through the Peters colony after their introduction from Pennsylvania in the past 1850. The Houston and Texas Central Railway built through the Place in 1873, and a railroad switch was located in the community. It was called “Summit” because at 810 feet (250 m) above sea level, it was supposed to be the highest narrowing between the Red River and the Gulf of Mexico. In 1873, when Summit time-honored a read out office, two businesses were located at the switch—a general collection and a saloon. Several houses were built to the east of the switch. Jabez Haning persuaded the railroad to acknowledge a depot upon his home by donating every second lot in his newly platted town to the railroad. The names of the depot, the store, and the name office were changed in 1876 to “Howe”, after F. M. Howe, who worked for the Houston and Texas Central. Howe had three saloons until in this area 1900, when the town voted to go dry. Its first one-room theoretical building opened in 1877 and was replaced by a two-story building in 1884.

In 1884, Howe was incorporated, with George M. McCrary as mayor. By the late 1880s, the town had become a major grain shipping middle and was the home of red rust-proof oats. A number of seed companies had their beginnings there in that decade. Howe became house to a Farmers’ Alliance Cooperative Association, which was absorbed by the Howe Grain and Mercantile Company in 1894. In 1890, Howe had a population of 450, a steam gristmill, a Farmers’ Alliance Cooperative, and Baptist and Methodist churches, as capably as a number of hotels, doctors, druggists, and barbers. Several newspapers were published in Howe, such as the Howe Herald from 1890 to the 1910s and the Howe Messenger in the late 1930s and early ’40s. During the 1930s, the Howe Chronicle was published by former Governor James E. Ferguson and his brother A. M. Ferguson. The Howe Enterprise was standard in 1963 by A.P. “Pop” Sloan.

On May 15, 1896, an F5 category tornado passed through the west side of Howe and the Farmington community, sweeping away as regards 17 homes.^{[circular reference]} On October 6, 1904, The Arlington Journal reported a blaze through Howe’s business district and named four stores it destroyed.