ʻŌhaikea, Hawaii

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1921 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the Kau census division. The Survey maps it on the Kilauea Crater quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

ʻŌhaikea within Hawaii County

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 20 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.

1921 USGS Kilauea quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1924 USGS Kilauea quadrangle1:62500, 5 printings
1954 USGS Hawaii South quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Hawaii South quadrangle1:250000
1961 USGS Hawaii South quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Hawaii South quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1963 USGS Kilauea Crater quadrangle1:24000
1975 USGS Hawaii quadrangle1:250000
1977 USGS Kilauea Crater quadrangle1:24000
1980 USGS Hawaii County Sheet 2 quadrangle1:100000
1981 USGS Kilauea Crater quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1995 USGS Kilauea Crater quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

57 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 57 fires within 5 miles of ʻŌhaikea (historical) between 1992 and 2020, burning about 7,519 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 2 were 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
Recreation and ceremony	38
Equipment and vehicle use	6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4
Debris and open burning	3
Arson/incendiarism	2
Natural	1
Smoking	1
Fireworks	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
30 September 2018	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Hawaii Volcanoes National Park	FOOTPRINTS
3 September 1996	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Hawaii Volcanoes National Park	MENESES
23 September 2001	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Hawaii Volcanoes National Park	STUMP
2 September 1995	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Hawaii Volcanoes National Park	LACY RANCH
9 August 1999	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Hawaii Volcanoes National Park	MAWAE
5 August 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	3,572 acres	Hawaii Volcanoes National Park	KEAUHOU RANCH BRUSH FIRE
31 August 2017	Equipment and vehicle use	2.8 acres	Hawaii Volcanoes National Park	GRAVEL PIT
2 August 1992	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Hawaii Volcanoes National Park	BABOO2E

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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
ʻŌhaikea Houses (historical)	2.5 miles	20
Volcano	6.1 miles	14
ʻĀinapō	6.6 miles	19
Mauna Loa Estates	6.9 miles	14
Royal Hawaiian Estates	8.8 miles	14
Glenwood	11.2 miles	14
Fern Forest	11.9 miles	14
Lehua (historical)	13.1 miles	13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2634503. 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.