Howard, also known as Howard Mines or Stovalls Gap, is an unincorporated community in Fayette County, Alabama, United States.

The community is possibly named after the original owner of the surrounding land or for the head of the local coal-mining operation.

[3] Moss & McCormack, a coal company based in Birmingham, leased the area in 1923 to open a coal mine.

[4] A miner from Kansas, Alabama died in a mining accident at the Howard Mine in 1935.

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