ʻEwa, Hawaii
14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1998. It stands in the Ewa census division. It lies in ZIP code area 96706. The Survey maps it on the Ewa quadrangle.
On record in ʻEwa
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 within a mile 1 record
The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.
- Ewa Plain Battlefieldlisted 2016 · 1.0 miles away
Topographic sheets covering this place
10 surveys from 14 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1953 USGS Ewa quadrangle1:24000
- 1954 USGS Oahu quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Oahu quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Ewa quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1965 USGS Oahu quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1968 USGS Ewa quadrangle1:24000
- 1970 USGS Oahu quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1977 USGS Ewa quadrangle1:24000
- 1983 USGS Ewa quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1998 USGS Ewa quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
1,412 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1,412 fires within 5 miles of ʻEwa between 1998 and 2018, burning about 2,484 acres in total. 1 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.
| Reported cause | Fires |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1411 |
| Natural | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | City and County of Honolulu | not named |
| 9 September 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | City and County of Honolulu | not named |
| 9 September 2001 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | City and County of Honolulu | not named |
| 8 September 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | City and County of Honolulu | not named |
| 8 September 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | City and County of Honolulu | not named |
| 8 September 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | City and County of Honolulu | not named |
| 8 September 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | City and County of Honolulu | not named |
| 8 September 2004 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | City and County of Honolulu | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
3 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of ʻEwa: 2 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Calcium, Stone. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Makakilo Quarry and Mill | Stone | Producer | ||
| Barbers Point Limestone Pit | Calcium | Past Producer | ||
| Ewa Pit | Calcium | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
9 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names ʻEwa in 9 storm reports between 1998 and 2022: 4 heavy rain, 3 funnel cloud, 1 wildfire, 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| December 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ewa | - | Video surfaced of trees down in the Ka Makana Alii Shopping Center parking lot, after thunderstorms had moved through the area. |
| October 2013 | Funnel Cloud | Ewa | - | The funnel extended about 1000 feet below the cloud base. |
| October 2014 | Heavy Rain | Ewa | - | no account filed |
| May 2005 | Funnel Cloud | Ewa | - | no account filed |
| October 2004 | Heavy Rain | Ewa | - | no account filed |
| November 2004 | Heavy Rain | Ewa | - | no account filed |
| October 2004 | Heavy Rain | Ewa | - | no account filed |
| September 2002 | Wildfire | Ewa | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Funnel Cloud | Ewa | - | no account filed |
Nearest settlements
The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| ʻEwa Villages | 0.0 miles | 14 | |
| Tenney Village | 0.2 miles | 14 | |
| Renton Village | 0.2 miles | 14 | |
| ʻEwa Gentry | 0.5 miles | 14 | |
| Varona Village | 0.5 miles | 14 | |
| Fernandez Village | 0.7 miles | 14 | |
| Lower Village | 1.4 miles | 14 | |
| Kapolei | 1.5 miles | 14 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 358806. 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.
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.
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.









