Honey Creek, Texas
10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Canyon Lake census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78163. The Survey maps it on the Bergheim quadrangle. It stands 1,394 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 10 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1954 USGS San Antonio quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Boerne quadrangle1:62500
- 1957 USGS San Antonio quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Bergheim quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS New Braunfels quadrangle1:100000
- 1992 USGS New Braunfels quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
70 since 2005Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 70 fires within 5 miles of Honey Creek between 2005 and 2013, burning about 418 acres in total. None started naturally. 5 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 28 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 22 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 7 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 5 |
| Smoking | 4 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 16 September 2008 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 15 September 2009 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | 09-0091695 |
| 10 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | DIERKS RANCH FIRE |
| 7 August 2010 | Smoking | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | BULVERDE CROSSING |
| 5 August 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | 1000 BLK SH 46 EAST |
| 31 August 2011 | Equipment and vehicle use | 3.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 100 BLK FM 3351 N |
| 23 August 2011 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | HIGH RIDGE |
| 11 August 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
3 since 2024Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Honey Creek in 3 storm reports between 2024 and 2025: 2 hail, 1 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 2025 | Hail | Honey Creek | - | A thunderstorm produced quarter size hail in the western corner of the county northeast of Fair Oaks Ranch. |
| May 2025 | Flash Flood | Honey Creek | - | Thunderstorms produced heavy rain that led to flash flooding. There was a water rescue on Blanco Rd. near Cibolo Creek. |
| May 2024 | Hail | Honey Creek | - | A thunderstorm produced nickel size hail at Guadalupe River State Park. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oak Cliff Acres | 0.6 miles | 10 | |
| Anhalt | 1.6 miles | 15 | |
| Bulverde West (historical) | 2.6 miles | 10 | |
| Bulverde South (historical) | 4.0 miles | 15 | |
| Bulverde | 4.9 miles | 11 | |
| Silver Hills | 5.6 miles | 10 | |
| Bulverde East (historical) | 6.8 miles | 15 | |
| Spring Branch | 7.1 miles | 14 |
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 Creek | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q130236523 | 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 1379952. 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.





