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Honeybee, Kentucky

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Parkers Lake census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42634. It stands on Tom Fork. The Survey maps it on the Cumberland Falls quadrangle. It stands 1,247 feet above sea level.

Honeybee within McCreary County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 16 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

247 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 247 fires within 5 miles of Honeybee between 1992 and 2020, burning about 3,991 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 173 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
Arson/incendiarism173
Debris and open burning33
Missing data/not specified/undetermined18
Recreation and ceremony10
Power generation/transmission/distribution8
Natural2
Equipment and vehicle use1
Smoking1
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
9 September 2002Arson/incendiarism7.0 acresDaniel Boone National ForestJUST BEGAN
9 September 1999Arson/incendiarism21 acresDaniel Boone National ForestTIRE
3 September 2019Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresDaniel Boone National ForestPITCH
28 September 2007Debris and open burning5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
25 September 2008Debris and open burning55 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
25 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresDaniel Boone National ForestTOMMY GUN
22 September 2005Natural1.0 acresDaniel Boone National ForestNEW PACK
18 September 2019Arson/incendiarism1.6 acresDaniel Boone National ForestINDIAN CREEK

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in McCreary County

Storms near this place

4 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Honeybee in 4 storm reports between 2010 and 2021: 3 thunderstorm wind, 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
July 2021Thunderstorm WindHoneybee$1,000Multiple trees were blown down along KY Hwy 90. The trees took down powerlines.
November 2010FloodHoneybee$1,000Gordon Taylor Road in the Sawyer area was under water.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindHoneybee-Dispatch relayed a report of a tree blown down onto a power line and garage near Honeybee, resulting in a structural fire.
October 2010Thunderstorm WindHoneybee-A tree was blown down, blocking the road at Sand Hill.

Every storm recorded in McCreary 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
Sawyer4.2 miles16
Funston4.2 miles17
Beulah Heights4.4 miles16
Wiborg6.7 miles16
Flat Rock6.7 miles16
Greenwood6.9 miles16
Bauer7.4 miles17
Marshes Siding8.9 miles16

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 HoneybeeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5893716The 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 512765. 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.

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.