Howard is a village in Brown and Outagamie counties in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. The population was 17,399 at the 2010 census. It is ration of the Green Bay Metropolitan Statistical Area.

The village is mostly within Brown County; a little portion extends west into Outagamie County. It is bordered to the east by Green Bay, a sub-basin of Lake Michigan. Prior to bodily incorporated as the Village of Howard, the Town of Howard was commonly referred to as “Duck Creek” because of the Duck Creek waterway winding its habit through the village.

The Green Bay area was first explored by Europeans in 1634, when Jean Nicolet, a French voyager, arrived in the area. The Town of Howard was acknowledged in 1835 and slowly developed along the Duck Creek as a middle for mail delivery, farming, quarrying and lumbering. By 1848, there were three major railroads that convergen in Howard, the Chicago & North Western (C&NW), the SOO Line (SOO) And the Milwaukee Road (MILW). It was named for Brigadier General Benjamin Howard, an officer in the War of 1812.

By 1856, a learned was functioning and the Town of Howard became known for its Duck Creek stone quarries; of which there were four. The last of the quarries were shut beside in 2002, with one monster converted into a swimming hole, and a community hoard place. Another was turned into a restaurant. One of the quarries had a lumber mill nearby, and after countless decades of timber dumping into the quarry, it is unsafe for swimmers and is now colored a definitely light yellow.