Honey Grove, Kentucky

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 1980. It stands in the Hopkinsville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42240. The Survey maps it on the Honey Grove quadrangle. It stands 715 feet above sea level.

Honey Grove within Christian County

On record in Honey Grove

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

McClellen Houselisted 1979

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 7 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.

1952 USGS Honey Grove quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1956 USGS Nashville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1959 USGS Nashville quadrangle1:250000
1980 USGS Hopkinsville quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

5 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Honey Grove between 2004 and 2014, burning about 54 acres in total. None 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/undetermined	2
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Debris and open burning	1
Recreation and ceremony	1

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

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
27 September 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
16 August 2007	Debris and open burning	45 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
27 March 2014	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	BAREFOOT
20 November 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
23 October 2010	Recreation and ceremony	7.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	SHILOH

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Christian 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 Honey Grove: 1 prospect. 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	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Britmark Clay	Clay	Prospect

Every working recorded in Christian County

Storms near this place

10 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Honey Grove in 10 storm reports between 2009 and 2025: 6 flood, 2 hail, 2 flash 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
February 2025	Flood	Honey Grove	-	Minor flooding of low-lying areas occurred along the South Fork of the Little River near Highway 68/80.
January 2022	Flood	Honey Grove	-	Minor flooding occurred on the south fork of the Little River. Farmland in the vicinity of the river was flooded. Street flooding began in Hopkinsville.
January 2022	Flood	Honey Grove	-	Minor flooding occurred on the south fork of the Little River. Farmland in the vicinity of the river was flooded. Street flooding began in Hopkinsville.
June 2018	Flood	Honey Grove	-	Minor flooding occurred on the south fork of the Little River just east of Hopkinsville. Some low-lying fields and woods near the river were under water.
July 2016	Flood	Honey Grove	-	Minor flooding occurred on the south fork of the Little River on the east side of Hopkinsville. Low-lying farmland and fields near the river were flooded.
July 2013	Flood	Honey Grove	-	Minor flooding occurred on the south fork of the Little River on the eastern outskirts of Hopkinsville. Low-lying fields and woodlands along the river were flooded. The flooding occurred in response to a couple of thunderstorms the previous night.
February 2011	Flash Flood	Honey Grove	-	A foot of standing water was over a secondary road. U.S. Highway 41 was partially blocked due to rapidly flowing water.
May 2010	Flash Flood	Honey Grove	-	Some road closures were reported, with several creeks and ditches out of their banks.
May 2010	Hail	Honey Grove	-	Hailstones up to baseball size were reported on U.S. Highway 68 at State Route 1027.
June 2009	Hail	Honey Grove	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Christian 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Laytonsville (historical)	2.1 miles	7
Perry (historical)	3.0 miles	7
Fairview	3.2 miles	8
Pleasant Hill	3.3 miles	7
Ovil	4.1 miles	7
Antioch (historical)	5.3 miles	9
West Union (historical)	5.8 miles	7
Carl	6.0 miles	7

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 Grove	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q14690644	The 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 494479. 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.