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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.

Honey Creek within Comal County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 10 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

70 since 2005

Regional 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 burning28
Missing data/not specified/undetermined22
Equipment and vehicle use7
Arson/incendiarism5
Smoking4
Recreation and ceremony2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2

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
16 September 2008Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
15 September 2009Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service09-0091695
10 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceDIERKS RANCH FIRE
7 August 2010Smokingunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceBULVERDE CROSSING
5 August 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service1000 BLK SH 46 EAST
31 August 2011Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service100 BLK FM 3351 N
23 August 2011Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceHIGH RIDGE
11 August 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Comal County

Storms near this place

3 since 2024

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
March 2025HailHoney Creek-A thunderstorm produced quarter size hail in the western corner of the county northeast of Fair Oaks Ranch.
May 2025Flash FloodHoney Creek-Thunderstorms produced heavy rain that led to flash flooding. There was a water rescue on Blanco Rd. near Cibolo Creek.
May 2024HailHoney Creek-A thunderstorm produced nickel size hail at Guadalupe River State Park.

Every storm recorded in Comal 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
Oak Cliff Acres0.6 miles10
Anhalt1.6 miles15
Bulverde West (historical)2.6 miles10
Bulverde South (historical)4.0 miles15
Bulverde4.9 miles11
Silver Hills5.6 miles10
Bulverde East (historical)6.8 miles15
Spring Branch7.1 miles14

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 CreekAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q130236523The 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.