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Kīpukanahuaopala, Hawaii

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1924 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the Kau census division. It lies in ZIP code area 96772. It sits by Kaulu Pali. The Survey maps it on the Naalehu quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Kīpukanahuaopala within Hawaii County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 14 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

41 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 41 fires within 5 miles of Kīpukanahuaopala (historical) between 1998 and 2017, burning about 4,428 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/undetermined40
Recreation and ceremony1

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
21 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined1,645 acresState of HawaiiWAIKAPUNA FIRE
18 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresCounty of Hawai'inot named
9 August 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Hawai'inot named
3 August 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresCounty of Hawai'inot named
22 August 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Hawai'inot named
14 August 2005Recreation and ceremony5.0 acresHawaii Volcanoes National ParkKAHUKU
5 July 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Hawai'inot named
5 July 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Hawai'inot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hawaii 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
Discovery Harbour0.8 miles14
Waiʻōhinu1.7 miles14
Nāʻālehu2.2 miles14
Waikapuna2.4 miles14
Honuʻapo4.8 miles14
Napumaia (historical)5.1 miles14
Hīlea7.7 miles15
Hawaiian Ocean View8.1 miles14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 365130. 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.