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Honey Creek, Missouri

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1987. It stands in Osage Township. It lies in ZIP code area 65101. The Survey maps it on the Wardsville quadrangle.

Honey Creek within Cole County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 17 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

8 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Honey Creek between 2005 and 2014, burning about 136 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/undetermined5
Debris and open burning2
Recreation and ceremony1

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 March 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined80 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
7 March 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
6 March 2005Debris and open burning2.0 acresMissouri State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
6 March 2005Debris and open burning20 acresMissouri State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
30 March 2005Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresMissouri State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
10 March 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
10 March 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
20 February 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cole County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Honey Creek: 6 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Barium-Barite, Zinc, Barium-Barite, Zinc. 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
Blue Jack MineBarium-Barite, ZincPast ProducerSurface
Blue Jack MineBarium-Barite, ZincPast Producer
Unknown-Lead and ZincLead, ZincPast Producer
Farmers Concrete MineSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Roweth Sand & Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Unknown-S&GSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown-S&GSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Cole County

Storms near this place

4 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Honey Creek in 4 storm reports between 2008 and 2023: 2 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind. 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
August 2023Thunderstorm WindHoney Creek-Thunderstorm winds blew down several trees along Tanner Bridge Road and Route B around 2 miles west southwest of Wardsville.
March 2011HailHoney Creek-Numerous reports of three quarter inch to one inch hail were received in north central Cole county.
May 2011Thunderstorm WindHoney Creek-Thunderstorm winds blew down several trees and power lines. One tree fell and blocked Bald Hill Road till it could be cleared.
March 2008HailHoney Creek-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Cole 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
Osage Bluff2.2 miles17
Brazito3.4 miles19
Wardsville4.0 miles17
Bass4.9 miles19
Osage Bend6.5 miles17
Millbrook6.6 miles19
Saint Thomas6.6 miles17
Scruggs7.2 miles20

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 737972. 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.