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Hālawa, Hawaii

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1913 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the North Kohala census division. It lies in ZIP code area 96755. It lies near East Branch Hālawa Gulch. The Survey maps it on the Hawi quadrangle.

Hālawa within Hawaii County

On record in Hālawa

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

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 14 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

22 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 22 fires within 5 miles of Hālawa between 2004 and 2012, burning about 7 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.

Reported cause Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined22

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
15 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Hawai'inot named
12 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Hawai'inot named
6 August 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Hawai'inot named
25 August 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Hawai'inot named
14 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Hawai'inot named
21 June 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Hawai'inot named
9 May 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Hawai'inot named
26 May 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Hawai'inot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hawaii 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
Makapala0.8 miles14
Halaʻula0.9 miles14
Niuliʻi1.1 miles15
Kapaʻau1.8 miles14
Honomakaʻu2.8 miles14
Hāwī3.6 miles14
Hikapoloa4.9 miles14
Māhukona7.6 miles15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 358907. 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.