Decorative drawing: a small American settlement seen from a low hill. Not a photograph of this place.

Honeytown, Ohio

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Wooster Township. It lies in ZIP code area 44691. It stands on Spring Run. The Survey maps it on the Wooster quadrangle.

Honeytown within Wayne County

Then and now

1901 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 93 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Honeytown, surveyed 1994

Topographic sheet of Honeytown, surveyed 1901

Topographic sheets covering this place

17 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 nearby

2 since 2002

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Honeytown between 2002 and 2002, burning about 25 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
Arson/incendiarism	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
31 August 2002	Recreation and ceremony	25 acres	Ohio State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
25 June 2002	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Ohio State Fire Marshal's Office	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Wayne County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 2,413 shown

Museums hold 2,413 specimens collected within 10 miles of Honeytown between 1877 and 1975: 2,006 Animalia, 217 Plantae, 151 Fungi, 38 Chromista, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A C ALLEN, A. D. Selby, A. E. Good and others. Each is a physical object with a catalogue number, and each entry opens the museum's record. This is what was collected and kept, not a survey of what lives here - nothing can be concluded from a species being absent.

Species	Year	Collected by	Where, as recorded
Calopteryx maculata (Palisot de Beauvois, 1807)	1930	B. Montgomery & J. Houser	2 miles northeast of Wooster
Aster ciliolatus Lindl.	1877	Thorne, B.H.	Station Farm, Wooster
Alasmidonta viridis (Rafinesque, 1820)	1883	Sterki, Victor	Burton City
Anodontoides ferussacianus (I.Lea, 1834)	1883	Sterki, Victor	Burton City(ditch in), Newman Creek & Tuscarawas River(ditch to)
Lampsilis radiata (Gmelin, 1791)	1883	Sterki, Victor	Burton City
Lasmigona complanata (Barnes, 1823)	1883	Sterki, Victor	Burton City(ditch in), Newman Creek & Tuscarawas River(ditch to)
Lasmigona compressa (I.Lea, 1829)	1883	Sterki, Victor	Burton City(ditch in)
Pyganodon grandis (Say, 1829)	1883	Sterki, Victor	Burton City(ditch in), Newman Creek & Tuscarawas River(ditch to)
Strophitus undulatus (Say, 1817)	1883	Sterki, Victor	Burton City(ditch in), Newman Creek & Tuscarawas River(ditch to)
Chelidon Forster, 1817	1889	Hine, J. S. (James Stewart)	Wooster, Wayne, Ohio, USA
Eupatorium sessilifolium L.	1889	Duvel, J.W.T	Fredericksburg
Agelaius phoeniceus phoeniceus (Linnaeus, 1766)	1890	Harry C. Oberholser	Wooster

All 2,413 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

4 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Honeytown: 4 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
Jones Limestone Company Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Prairie Lane Sand & Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Rodco Mine	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Wayne County Hwy Dept.	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Wayne 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
Hillcrest	1.4 miles	17
Guerne	2.5 miles	17
Wooster Rolling Wheels	2.5 miles	15
Ramblewood	2.6 miles	17
Highland Park	2.7 miles	17
Boys Village	2.7 miles	17
Madison Hill	3.0 miles	17
Wooster	3.0 miles	17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1048849. 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.

Specimens. Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), https://www.gbif.org/. Only records licensed CC0 or CC BY are used. Records licensed CC BY-NC are excluded because this site carries advertising. Images are checked individually and any whose licence is non-commercial, no-derivatives or unreadable is refused.

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.