Kaʻau, Hawaii

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.

• 1916 USGS Waipio quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
• 1954 USGS Hawaii North quadrangle1:250000
• 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
• 1995 USGS Kukuihaele quadrangle1:24000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Kaʻau between 1996 and 2008, burning about 50 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Akona
• Waipiʻo
• Kukuihaele
• Mānā
• Paliʻaʻalii
• Kūhiō Village

Every fire recorded in Hawaii County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 365099. 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.