Captain Cook, Hawaii

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

• Kealakekua Bay Historical Districtlisted 1973

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.

• 1954 USGS Hawaii South quadrangle1:250000
• 1959 USGS Hawaii South quadrangle1:250000
• 1959 USGS Honaunau quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1961 USGS Hawaii South quadrangle1:250000
• 1962 USGS Hawaii South quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1975 USGS Hawaii quadrangle1:250000
• 1980 USGS Hawaii County Sheet 3 quadrangle1:100000
• 1982 USGS Honaunau quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1996 USGS Honaunau quadrangle1:24000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 24 fires within 5 miles of Captain Cook between 2004 and 2012, burning about 6 acres in total. None started naturally. None was 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Kaʻawaloa
• Pawaina (historical)
• Kainaliu
• Kealakekua
• Keʻei
• Nāpōʻopoʻo

Every fire recorded in Hawaii County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Captain Cook in 9 storm reports between 1997 and 2021: 4 heavy rain, 2 flood, 2 flash flood, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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.

Every storm recorded in Hawaii County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 358717. 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.