Howell is a town located in the Blue Creek Valley in northeast Box Elder County, Utah, United States.

Thiokol Airport/Howell's climate borders between being semi-arid and humid continental climate (Köppen BSk/Dfb), characterized by cold winters, warm-to-hot summers, and high diurnal temperature variation throughout the year.

19.1% of all households were made up of individuals, and 4.4% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older.

About 7.3% of families and 7.6% of the population were below the poverty line, including 12.6% of those under the age of eighteen and 17.6% of those 65 or over.

Crocker formed the Promontory Land and Livestock Company in this time period, which had land holdings that stretched from the Great Salt Lake north to Idaho, and west to Nevada.

In 1910 Nephi Nessen purchased 1,000 acres (4.0 km2) from the Promontory-Curlew Land Company, and established the first private and permanent residence in Howell.

Nessen was born in Logan, Utah in 1867, the son of Danish immigrants and converts to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints who crossed the plains from the east as part of a Handcart company.

Other settler families included Andersen, Baxter, Cravens, Gunnell, Bailey, Carlsen, Douglas, Fonnesbeck, Rock, Wood, Allen, Barber, and Maughn.