Honey Creek Township, Iowa County, Iowa

[1] It is named after the Honey Creek, a tributary of the Iowa River, which flows through it in a northwesterly direction.

Early pioneer settlements were along watercourses because of the groves of trees which provided timber for farmers.

[4] Samuel Huston, who was a winning plaintiff in the first civil lawsuit held in Iowa County in May 1847,[5] founded the pioneer town of Koszta in Honey Creek Township in 1856.

While held in chains on board an Austrian naval vessel awaiting a packet ship that would send him back to Trieste and likely death, the United States intervened on his behalf.

The incident, known as the Koszta Affair, set a precedent for protections afforded US residents not yet fully naturalized.