Kaʻelekū, 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.

• 1954 USGS Maui quadrangle1:250000
• 1957 USGS Hana quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1966 USGS Maui quadrangle1:250000
• 1974 USGS Maui quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1978 USGS Hana quadrangle1:24000
• 1983 USGS Hana quadrangle1:24000
• 1992 USGS Hana quadrangle1:24000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Kaʻelekū between 2011 and 2012, burning under an acre 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:

• Hāmoa
• Hāna
• Hōkūʻula
• Mokae
• Oloewa (historical)
• Honomāʻele (historical)

Every fire recorded in Maui 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 359643. 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.