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Honokōwai, Hawaii

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Lahaina census division. It lies in ZIP code area 96761. It stands on Honokōwai Stream. The Survey maps it on the Lahaina quadrangle.

Honokōwai within Maui County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 8 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

98 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 98 fires within 5 miles of Honokōwai between 1998 and 2019, burning about 2,501 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/undetermined98

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
29 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined125 acresCounty of Mauinot named
26 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined73 acresCounty of Mauinot named
12 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Mauinot named
11 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Mauinot named
9 August 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Mauinot named
8 August 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.0 acresCounty of Mauinot named
8 August 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresCounty of Mauinot named
7 August 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Mauinot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Maui 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 Honokōwai: 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Aluminum. 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
Hawaii BauxiteAluminumOccurrenceBauxite, Gibbsite

Every working recorded in Maui 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
Puukolii1.6 miles8
Kāʻanapali1.7 miles8
Mahinahina Camp (historical)1.7 miles8
Kahana1.7 miles10
Kāʻanapali Landing1.8 miles8
Nāpili2.6 miles10
Otani Camp (historical)2.7 miles8
Honokahua3.5 miles10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 359316. 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.