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Foster Village, Hawaii

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1999. It stands in the Ewa census division. It lies in ZIP code area 96818. It stands on South Hālawa Stream. The Survey maps it on the Pearl Harbor quadrangle.

Foster Village within Honolulu County

On record in Foster Village

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 3 records

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 15 printed sheets

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.

Fires near this place

761 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 761 fires within 5 miles of Foster Village between 1992 and 2017, burning about 1,140 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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/undetermined760
Arson/incendiarism1

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

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
9 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCity and County of Honolulunot named
9 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCity and County of Honolulunot named
9 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCity and County of Honolulunot named
9 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCity and County of Honolulunot named
9 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCity and County of Honolulunot named
8 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined30 acresCity and County of Honolulunot named
8 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCity and County of Honolulunot named
8 September 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCity and County of Honolulunot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Honolulu County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Foster Village: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Halawa Quarry and MillStoneProducer

Every working recorded in Honolulu County

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 PlaceDistance Sheets
Āliamanu0.8 miles15
Hālawa1.1 miles11
Hālawa Heights1.2 miles11
Hālawa Hills1.3 miles11
ʻAiea1.4 miles11
Puʻuloa1.6 miles15
ʻAiea Heights1.7 miles11
Hickam Village1.7 miles15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 358825. 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.