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Hīlea, Hawaii

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1924 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the Kau census division. It lies in ZIP code area 96777. It lies near Nīnole Gulch. The Survey maps it on the Punaluu quadrangle.

Hīlea within Hawaii County

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

27 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 27 fires within 5 miles of Hīlea between 2004 and 2010, burning about 121 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/undetermined27

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 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresCounty of Hawai'inot named
23 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.5 acresCounty of Hawai'inot named
18 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Hawai'inot named
11 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Hawai'inot named
9 August 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Hawai'inot named
16 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Hawai'inot named
13 August 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Hawai'inot named
13 August 2005Missing 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
Punaluʻu1.5 miles15
Honuʻapo3.3 miles14
Moaʻula (historical)3.8 miles14
Napumaia (historical)4.6 miles14
Pāhala5.5 miles14
Nāʻālehu5.7 miles14
Waiʻōhinu6.3 miles14
Kīpukanahuaopala (historical)7.7 miles14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 365087. 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.