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Honey Creek, Iowa

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Rockford Township. It lies in ZIP code area 51542. The Survey maps it on the Honey Creek quadrangle. It stands 1,014 feet above sea level.

Honey Creek within Pottawattamie County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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

24 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 24 fires within 5 miles of Honey Creek between 2001 and 2020, burning about 177 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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
Debris and open burning14
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Smoking1
Arson/incendiarism1
Recreation and ceremony1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
27 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
24 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
22 May 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
11 May 2018Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 April 2014Debris and open burningunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
30 April 2001Recreation and ceremony45 acresBoyer Chute National Wildlife RefugeSIGNAL
29 April 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
28 April 2020Debris and open burning3.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pottawattamie County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Honey Creek: 2 unknowns, 1 past producer. None of them still produces. 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
Loveland Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Pottawattamie County

Storms near this place

12 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Honey Creek in 12 storm reports between 1998 and 2026: 6 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 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
April 2026HailHoney Creek-Delayed report received via social media of hail measured up to 1 inch in diameter from a Trained Spotter. Time estimated with radar.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindHoney Creek-A personal weather station measured a peak wind gust of 67 mph.
July 2023HailHoney Creek-Broadcast media relayed report of 1.25-inch hail.
March 2019FloodHoney Creek-There was significant flooding across the county. On the Missouri River,. The river gauge at Omaha, operated by the USGS, peaked at 34.41 feet at 8 am on March 17th. Moderate flood stage is 32 feet. Preliminarily this peak is the 3rd highest on record. The primary impact from this flooding was Interstate 29 and Interstate 680 being closed due to being under water. East and west bound Highway 6 is closed as Keg and Little Keg Creeks were out of banks. The heavy rains caused mudslides, and the most serious one was in Council Bluffs on Harry Langdon Boulevard, which closed the road.
July 2019Heavy RainHoney Creek-A spotter reported 3 inches of rain.
April 1999Tornado (F0)Honey Creek-Brief touchdown.
July 2019HailHoney Creek-no account filed
March 2017HailHoney Creek-no account filed
August 2007Thunderstorm WindHoney Creek-no account filed
August 2005HailHoney Creek-no account filed
September 2002HailHoney Creek-no account filed
May 1998Thunderstorm WindHoney Creek-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Pottawattamie 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
Ascot2.1 miles13
Grable3.3 miles13
Crescent4.5 miles14
Loveland4.8 miles13
Pigeon4.8 miles12
Clara5.6 miles15
Weston9.1 miles12
Carter Lake10.0 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.

Wikipedia article on Honey CreekAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q9004647The 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 464584. 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.