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Welcome to Honey Island ...

Honey Island is located in the Piney Woods (East Texas).

Honey Island is located in Hardin County<1>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of Honey Island, you might consider that their post office opened in 1907.

A typical abbreviation for Honey Island: Honey Is. (in Canada, 'Isld.' is the more common abbreviation.)

Honey Island is 100 feet [30 m] above sea level.<2>.

Time Zone: Honey Island lies in the Central Time Zone (CST/CDT) and observes daylight saving time

Communities Also Named Honey Island ...

Using our Gazetteer, we found that there are 2 communities that are also named Honey Island - they are located in Mississippi and North Carolina.

For more information, see our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Honey Island.

Communities near Honey Island ...

We have created a list of 10 communities that are near Honey Island.

  • Lumberton
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
  • Silsbee
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
  • Kountze
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
  • Sour Lake
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the south)
  • Ivanhoe
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
    • Ivanhoe is located in Tyler County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ivanhoe
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,438 people
  • Bevil Oaks
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
    • Bevil Oaks is located in Jefferson County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bevil Oaks
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,209 people
  • Ivanhoe North
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
    • Ivanhoe North is located in Tyler County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ivanhoe North
    • Population from the 2010 Census: 538 people
  • Grayburg
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)
    • Grayburg is located in Hardin County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grayburg
  • Bragg ‑ Historic
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
    • Bragg is located in Hardin County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bragg
  • Village Mills
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)

To Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

We have a couple of sections for those tracing their genealogy.

We created a list of cemeteries that are in the area around Honey Island. Our list includes the location of those cemeteries and we provide an overhead view. See our Cemetery List for Honey Island.

Using the information from an 1895 Atlas, we've created a list of communities that were in the area of Honey Island. Our list includes information such as whether the 1895 community had a post office or railroad service. See our List of 1890's Communities around Honey Island.

We also have a detailed list of newspapers that have been published in the area around Honey Island. See our Newspapers Page for Honey Island.

TripAdvisor Tourism Pages for Honey Island ...

Looking for more information about Honey Island? A wonderful source is the TripAdvisor website. We always start with the TripAdvisor Tourism page, where you can read an overview with links that will help you find lodging, restaurants and attractions.

While we are unaware of a Tourism page that is specific to Honey Island, there are neighboring communities that do have Tourism pages. A map of those communities can be found with our TripAdvisor Page for Honey Island.

Adding Honey Island to Our Gazetteer ...

We originally found mention of Honey Island in both the FIPS-55 and the GNIS. For more information, see the FIPS and GNIS Codes sections on our Miscellaneous Page.

From our notes, the earliest published mention we've found (so far) for Honey Island was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<4>

From that list, the Honey Island post office opened in 1907. The Honey Island post office closed in 1957.

For more details, see References and Mentions for Honey Island.

Footnotes ...

<1>If you're interested in how the shape of Texas' counties, including Hardin, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
<2>The elevation is an estimate for the area around Honey Island - it will be higher in some places and lower in others.
<3>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<4>A copy of the Blevins & Helbock Post Office list with background information can be found at:

      https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/