BlockKīpahulu, Hawaii
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the Hana census division. It lies in ZIP code area 96713. It stands on Kalena Stream. The Survey maps it on the Kipahulu quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 9 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.
- 1954 USGS Maui quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Kipahulu quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1966 USGS Maui quadrangle1:250000
- 1974 USGS Maui quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1983 USGS Kipahulu quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1995 USGS Kipahulu quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
8 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Kīpahulu between 1992 and 2010, burning about 3 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 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 July 2007 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Haleakala National Park | KIPAHULU |
| 5 June 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | County of Maui | not named |
| 22 May 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | County of Maui | not named |
| 13 April 1992 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Haleakala National Park | GILLESPI2 |
| 5 March 2000 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Haleakala National Park | LARSON |
| 14 March 1992 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Haleakala National Park | GILLESPI1 |
| 19 February 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | County of Maui | not named |
| 16 February 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | County of Maui | 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.
Elsewhere
Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.
| Wikipedia article on Kīpahulu | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q6414604 | The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0). |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 361256. 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.