Kūhiō Village, Hawaii
15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1916 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the South Kohala census division. It lies in ZIP code area 96743. It stands on Lanimaumau Stream. The Survey maps it on the Kamuela quadrangle.
On record in Kūhiō Village
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 2 records
The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.
Imiola Churchlisted 1975 · 0.7 miles away
Waimea Elementary Schoollisted 2005 · 0.9 miles away
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 15 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1916 USGS Waipio quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
- 1954 USGS Hawaii North quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Kamuela quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1959 USGS Hawaii North quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Hawaii North quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1975 USGS Hawaii quadrangle1:250000
- 1980 USGS Hawaii County Sheet 1 quadrangle1:100000
- 1982 USGS Kamuela quadrangle1:24000
- 1995 USGS Kamuela quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
43 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 43 fires within 5 miles of Kūhiō Village between 1996 and 2017, burning about 28,498 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/undetermined | 42 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29 September 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | County of Hawai'i | not named |
| 2 September 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4.0 acres | County of Hawai'i | not named |
| 17 September 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | County of Hawai'i | not named |
| 8 August 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | County of Hawai'i | not named |
| 4 August 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | County of Hawai'i | not named |
| 21 August 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | County of Hawai'i | not named |
| 18 August 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | County of Hawai'i | not named |
| 16 August 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 200 acres | County of Hawai'i | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Waimea | 0.8 miles | 15 | |
| Puopelu | 1.4 miles | 15 | |
| Waiʻaka | 2.4 miles | 15 | |
| Kawailiʻulā (historical) | 2.5 miles | 15 | |
| Mānā | 5.4 miles | 11 | |
| Saddle Road Junction | 6.1 miles | 10 | |
| Akona | 6.1 miles | 11 | |
| Paliʻaʻalii | 6.3 miles | 11 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 361477. 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.








