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Honey Creek

Ghost town · Comal County, Texas

Boerne quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1957, 1:62,500)
Boerne quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1957, 1:62,500) · U.S. Geological Survey, Historical Topographic Map Collection · Public domain

Honey Creek is a ghost town in Comal County, Texas. It is one of 5 former communities in Comal County on the federal names register. That ranks the county 20th among the 165 Texas counties with a vanished settlement on record.

The U.S. Geological Survey lists Honey Creek as a historical populated place: the name is no longer in official use for a community, whether the settlement was abandoned, absorbed into a neighbouring town or renamed. The recorded location is 29.8052° N, 98.5011° W.

Key facts

Elevation1,391 ft
Nearest living townBulverde, TX
Distance to it4.5 miles
Coordinates29.80522, -98.50113

Open the location on a map

Then and now

Drag the slider: the old USGS map on the left, the same ground from the air today on the right. Both cover the same 1.9-mile square centred on the recorded location.

Honey Creek today, aerial view
Boerne quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1957, 1:62,500)

Left: Boerne quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1957, 1:62,500), U.S. Geological Survey, Historical Topographic Map Collection. Right: The same ground today: NAIP aerial imagery, USDA Farm Service Agency, National Agriculture Imagery Program (via USGS). Both public domain.

What's there now

Honey Creek is no longer a community in its own right. The nearest living town is Bulverde, TX (population 6,164), about 4.5 miles away in a straight line, and the site sits at roughly 1,391 feet above sea level. The aerial view above shows what covers the ground today. Much of the land around former townsites is private; check access before you visit.

Nearby places

Questions

Where is Honey Creek?

Honey Creek is in Comal County, Texas, at 29.8052, -98.5011.

How many ghost towns are in Comal County?

Comal County, Texas has 5 ghost towns on record at Wayfarrow.

Sources and licences

Facts marked "approximately" carry an uncertain date in the source. Text on this page is generated from the sources above; no encyclopedia prose is copied. Last updated 2026-11-06.