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Honeydew, California

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1920 and the latest in 1989. It stands in the Garberville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 95545. It stands on Upper North Fork Mattole River. The Survey maps it on the Honeydew quadrangle. It stands 322 feet above sea level.

Honeydew within Humboldt County

Then and now

1920 to 1989

The same ground, surveyed 69 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Honeydew, surveyed 1989
Topographic sheet of Honeydew, surveyed 1920

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 13 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

42 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 42 fires within 5 miles of Honeydew between 1992 and 2019, burning about 82 acres in total. 3 started naturally. None was 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/undetermined19
Debris and open burning9
Equipment and vehicle use8
Natural3
Recreation and ceremony2
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
4 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresHumboldt-Del Norte UnitWILDER RIDGE RD MATTOL 2
4 September 2003Natural10 acresHumboldt-Del Norte UnitHONEYDEW CREEK
30 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined8.0 acresHumboldt-Del Norte UnitLANDERGEN
22 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire ProtectionMOODY
19 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresHumboldt-Del Norte UnitMAST
17 September 2009Misuse of fire by a minor5.5 acresHumboldt-Del Norte UnitMATTOLE
15 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreHumboldt-Del Norte UnitMATTOLE RD MATTOLE
10 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresHumboldt-Del Norte UnitTRIPPLE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Humboldt 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 Honeydew: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: 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
Honeydew PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Humboldt County

Storms near this place

2 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Honeydew in 2 storm reports between 1998 and 2025: 1 hail, 1 flood. 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
December 2025FloodHoneydew-Wilder Ridge Road closed due to flooding.
January 1998HailHoneydew-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Humboldt 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
Scott Place5.4 miles13
Westlund Place5.6 miles13
Hunter Place7.3 miles13
Bull Creek8.1 miles13
Ettersburg9.9 miles16
Petrolia10.3 miles13
Burlington12.2 miles12
Dyerville (historical)13.0 miles12

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 HoneydewAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1998517The 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 1658771. 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.