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Honeyville, Florida

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1945 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Wewahitchka census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32465. The Survey maps it on the Wewahitchka quadrangle. 871 people lived here at the last count. It stands 33 feet above sea level.

Honeyville within Gulf County

Then and now

1945 to 1990

The same ground, surveyed 45 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Honeyville, surveyed 1990
Topographic sheet of Honeyville, surveyed 1945

Compare 1945 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 15 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

81 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 81 fires within 5 miles of Honeyville between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,291 acres in total. 18 started naturally. 8 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
Natural18
Railroad operations and maintenance16
Debris and open burning16
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Arson/incendiarism8
Equipment and vehicle use5
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Smoking1
Other causes1

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
5 September 1997Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
17 September 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
13 August 1998Natural15 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
13 August 1998Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
5 July 2014Debris and open burningunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceHWY 22 (23)
5 July 2008Natural60 acresFlorida Forest Service23/BETTY RAE DR 2008-02-0510
22 July 1995Natural12 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
21 July 2002Debris and open burningunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Gulf 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 Honeyville: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay. 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
Unnamed Clay ProspectClayPast Producer

Every working recorded in Gulf County

Storms near this place

7 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Honeyville in 7 storm reports between 2000 and 2026: 6 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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
March 2000Thunderstorm WindHoneyville$15,000Several large trees and power lines down on State Highway 71. Reported by the Gulf County EMA.
March 2009Thunderstorm WindHoneyville$5,000The tops of several large pine trees were snapped and a transformer exploded.
December 2024Thunderstorm WindHoneyville$2,000Two power lines were blown down at Highway 71S and Laramie Street.
October 2014Thunderstorm WindHoneyville$2,000Power lines were blown down along Highway 71.
January 2026Thunderstorm WindHoneyville-A tree was blown down along Highway 71 southbound.
December 2024Thunderstorm WindHoneyville-Trees were blown down near Honeyville.
June 2014HailHoneyville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Gulf 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
Gaskins Still1.4 miles15
Wewahitchka3.8 miles15
Dalkeith4.1 miles15
Lake Grove4.3 miles15
Iola6.4 miles15
Early6.8 miles16
Majette7.1 miles16
Wetappo8.7 miles15

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 Q131451185The 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 284231. 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.