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Kāhala, Hawaii

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1998. It stands in the Honolulu census division. It lies in ZIP code area 96816. It stands on Waiʻalae Stream. The Survey maps it on the Honolulu quadrangle.

Kāhala within Honolulu County

On record in Kāhala

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 4 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 13 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

389 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 389 fires within 5 miles of Kāhala between 1992 and 2017, burning about 621 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/undetermined389

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 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCity and County of Honolulunot named
9 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCity and County of Honolulunot named
9 September 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCity and County of Honolulunot named
8 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresCity and County of Honolulunot named
8 September 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCity and County of Honolulunot named
7 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.0 acresCity and County of Honolulunot named
7 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCity and County of Honolulunot named
5 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresCity and County of Honolulunot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire 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
Waiʻalae0.7 miles13
Kaʻalāwai1.1 miles13
Kaimukī1.2 miles13
Wailupe1.5 miles12
Wilhelmina Rise1.5 miles13
Kapahulu1.7 miles13
Maunalani Heights1.9 miles13
ʻĀina Haina1.9 miles12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 359673. 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.