BlockKūkiʻo, Hawaii
14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1928 and the latest in 1996. It stands in the North Kona census division. It lies in ZIP code area 96740. It lies near Poopoomino. The Survey maps it on the Kiholo quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 14 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.
- 1928 USGS Puako quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1954 USGS Hawaii North quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Hawaii North quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Kiholo quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1961 USGS Hawaii North quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1975 USGS Hawaii quadrangle1:250000
- 1980 USGS Hawaii County Sheet 1 quadrangle1:100000
- 1982 USGS Kiholo quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1996 USGS Kiholo quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
6 since 1999Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Kūkiʻo between 1999 and 2008, burning about 5,019 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 | 6 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 September 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | County of Hawai'i | not named |
| 7 August 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | County of Hawai'i | not named |
| 6 June 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4.0 acres | County of Hawai'i | not named |
| 16 June 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | County of Hawai'i | not named |
| 7 December 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 15 acres | County of Hawai'i | not named |
| 7 October 1999 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5,000 acres | State of Hawaii | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kaʻūpūlehu | 1.4 miles | 14 | |
| Makalawena | 2.2 miles | 11 | |
| Mahaiʻula | 3.1 miles | 11 | |
| Huʻehuʻe | 4.6 miles | 14 | |
| Kīholo | 4.7 miles | 14 | |
| Kalaoa | 6.4 miles | 14 | |
| Keawaiki | 7.0 miles | 12 | |
| Weliweli | 7.6 miles | 12 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 365138. 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.