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Honeycomb Park, Alabama

24 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Grant census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35747. It stands on Jagger Branch. The Survey maps it on the Mount Carmel quadrangle.

Honeycomb Park within Marshall County

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 surveys from 24 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

Fires near this place

51 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 51 fires within 5 miles of Honeycomb Park between 1994 and 2017, burning about 963 acres in total. None started naturally. 14 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Arson/incendiarism14
Missing data/not specified/undetermined14
Debris and open burning13
Equipment and vehicle use5
Smoking2
Other causes1
Recreation and ceremony1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
30 September 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commission20160930-4
22 September 2015Other causes2.0 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionNOR-20150922-002
22 September 2005Debris and open burning2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
15 September 2011Smoking15 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionHWY 431 S, AL
20 August 2008Debris and open burning30 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionBISHOP MTN, AL
6 July 1996Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
5 July 1996Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
28 July 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionNOR-20150728-001

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Marshall County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Honeycomb Park: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Diamond QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Marshall County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Shady Acres0.6 miles24
Pine Shores0.9 miles24
Half Acre Estates1.8 miles24
Bucksnort1.9 miles23
Cottonville2.1 miles24
Holiday Shores2.1 miles24
Keel (historical)2.8 miles23
Fort Deposit (historical)3.2 miles24

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikidata item Q122544161The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 148881. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.