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Howard County is divided into 11 Civil Townships as follows: Center, Clay,
Ervin, Harrison, Honey Creek, Howard, Jackson, Liberty, Monroe, Taylor and
Union.
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Howard County was formally organized May 1, 1844 as Richardville County.
As this county nearly all within the old Miami Reserve, it was named after
the Miami Chief and successor of Little Turtle, however, the sentiment did
not prevail for any length of time and on December 28, 1846, the Legislature
passed its first and only act changing the name of a county.
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Kokomo is the County Seat. It is located on the site of the Indian village
of the same name and was first settled in the autumn of 1844 by N. R. Lindsey,
J. Bohan, C. Richmond, J. L. Barritt, J. T. McClintock, B. Newhouse, and
others. By 1849 it contained five stores, one grocery, fifty dwelling houses,
and 250 inhabitants.
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Kokomo is also the birthplace of pneumatic rubber tires, the aluminum casting
process, stainless steel and the first push-button car radio.
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According to the Society of Indiana Pioneers, an individual was a pioneer
of our county if they resided here on or before December 31, 1840.
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Indiana automobile License Plates issued in Howard County start with the
prefix 34 because it is the thirty-fourth county in alphabetical listing.
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