Kalawao County, Hawaii

9 topographic sheets cover 1 settlement here, and 1 property is on the National Register of Historic Places.

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From the record

1 National Register listing published here, 1 of them a National Historic Landmark.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

Hawaii within the United States

Kalawao County within Hawaii

What the record shows

9 topographic sheet readings cover the county's settlements.
1 property here is on the National Register of Historic Places, listed as a district.
It was added during the 1970s.
The Geographic Names Information System records 1 populated places in this county; 1 is covered by at least one topographic sheet.

Places on the National Register

Every property in this county listed on the National Register of Historic Places, with the year it was listed and the federal nomination document.

Photograph	Property	Type	Listed	Reference
	Kalaupapa National Historical Park	district	1976	76002145

Wildfire, 2014 to 2016

2 fires

Every wildfire the federal occurrence database records inside this county: 2 of them, burning under an acre. None started naturally and 1 was recorded as arson. Each settlement page carries the fires within five miles of it.

Reported cause	Fires
Arson/incendiarism	1
Other causes	1

The five largest, by the area the report gives. One of them was set deliberately.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
5 November 2014	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Kalaupapa National Historical Park	BEACH
6 September 2016	Other causes	under an acre	Kalaupapa National Historical Park	STATE KITCHEN

Every settlement page carries the fires within five miles of it - see the settlement index below.

Every populated place in the county

Named settlements recorded in the Geographic Names Information System, each with the topographic sheets covering it. Villages, hamlets and abandoned places alike. Each is shown with the nearest named watercourse or landform and the survey quadrangle it falls on.

Kalaupapa

Kalawao census division · 96742 · Near Puʻuʻuao · Kaunakakai quadrangle

9 sheets, 1952 to 1993

Provenance

Topographic sheets. USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection, county index, measured from the bulk metadata.
Fire insurance maps. Library of Congress Sanborn collection, faceted to this county.
Photographs. Each place queried individually against the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs search.
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.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.