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Welcome to the Howell Home page. The Howell Home page provides as much information as possible on Howell. Knowing Howell’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Howell’s Home page, you will also find Howell’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.

Howell has a population of 52053. 48.7% of Howell’s inhabitants are Male, and 51.3 are female. 57.1% of Howell is married and 87.9% own their own home. The Average Home price is $356,762, and the average rent is $1,606. Household median income in Howell is $110,021, and the individual median income is $44,706. Howell’s Ethnic is the following: White(84.5%), Hispanic(12.8%), Asian(5.4%), Black(4.1%), Multiple(3.4%), Other(2.5%), Native(0.2%).


Howell Township was incorporated as a township by an act of the New Jersey Legislature on February 23, 1801, from portions of Shrewsbury Township. Portions of the township were taken to form Brick Township in the newly created Ocean County (February 15, 1850), Wall Township (March 7, 1851) and Farmingdale (April 8, 1903).


The township was named for Richard Howell, who served from 1794 to 1801 as the third Governor of New Jersey.Founded in 1822 by engineer and philanthropist James P. Allaire, the Howell Works provided iron for Allaire Iron Works, which was a leading supplier of iron in the 19th century. Allaire Village was a bustling mill town at the height of the mining operations and it has been preserved as Allaire State Park, which is in Howell Township and Wall Township.Some scenes for the War of the Worlds 2005 remake were filmed here, and a neighborhood called Ardena Acres was recreated as a set and left standing in Universal Studios Hollywood.In June 2017, two separate tornadoes, both rated EF0 on the Enhanced Fujita scale, struck minutes and miles apart.


The first one struck the Fort Plains area, damaging a Home Depot, Chase Bank, a strip mall, and a local ice cream parlor. The second one struck a park in the Oak Glen area.


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