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Honcut, California

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Palermo census division. It lies in ZIP code area 95966. The Survey maps it on the Honcut quadrangle. 306 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 108 feet above sea level.

Honcut within Butte County

Then and now

1888 to 1993

The same ground, surveyed 105 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Honcut, surveyed 1993
Topographic sheet of Honcut, surveyed 1888

Population over time

2 figures

Honcut fell from 370 to 306 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
2010370
2020306-64 (-17%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 21 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

372 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 372 fires within 5 miles of Honcut between 1992 and 2020, burning about 6,906 acres in total. None started naturally. 41 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined156
Equipment and vehicle use115
Debris and open burning43
Arson/incendiarism41
Misuse of fire by a minor11
Smoking3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Recreation and ceremony1

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
9 September 2014Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreButte UnitHONCUT
9 September 2014Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreButte UnitHONCUT #2
9 September 2014Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreButte UnitHONCUT #4
9 September 2014Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreButte UnitHONCUT #3
9 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresButte UnitPALERMO IC GRD FIRE
9 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreButte UnitLOWER
8 September 2011Equipment and vehicle use3.2 acresButte UnitDUNSTONE
7 September 2002Arson/incendiarismunder an acreButte UnitPALERMO

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Butte County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 11 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of Honcut: 5 occurrences, 2 past producers, 2 unknowns, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Clay, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Hammett Talkings RockStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Kaiser Henry J CoSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Kaiser, Henry J. Co. Betchel-Kaiser Rock CoSand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/BrokenOccurrenceSedimentary
LundClayProducerSedimentary
LundClayPast Producer
UnknownGoldOccurrence
UnknownGoldOccurrence
UnknownGoldOccurrence
Unnamed LocationGoldUnknown
Unnamed LocationGoldOccurrence

Every working recorded in Butte County

Storms near this place

4 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Honcut in 4 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 3 flood, 1 tornado. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
February 2017FloodHoncut$549,000,000A mass evacuation of over 180000 people located downstream of Oroville Dam was ordered for a possible flash flood, due to the projected near failure of the emergency spillway. The emergency spillway was used when the main spillway was discovered to have suffered severe erosion during releases back on and around February 7th. Releases from Lake Oroville had been increased due to rising lake levels due to inflow from heavy rains.||A presidential disaster declaration provided $274 million for emergency response costs from Feb. 7 though the end of May. The money targeted stabilizing the emergency and main spillways, as well as debris removal and work on the downed Hyatt Powerplant. A bid for long term repairs to the spillway was accepted at $275 million. Together, these total $549 million, though final costs could be much higher.
February 2025FloodHoncut-California Highway Patrol reported 2 inches of water covering both lanes at Ramirez Road and Fruitland Road from heavy rain.
April 2018FloodHoncut-Roadway flooding was reported at Lower Honcut Road and Ramirez Road.
April 1994Tornado (F0)Honcut-Fire department officials spotted the tornado as it briefly touched down in southern Butte County.

Every storm recorded in Butte 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
Craig1.7 miles21
Robinsons Corner4.6 miles21
Sunnyslope6.0 miles27
Vista Robles6.4 miles25
Gridley Colony Number One (historical)6.8 miles22
Chandon (historical)6.9 miles22
Gridley Colony Number Two (historical)7.0 miles22
East Gridley7.2 miles22

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.

Wikipedia article on HoncutAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6645346The 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 225509. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.