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Kalauao, Hawaii

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1998. It stands in the Ewa census division. It lies in ZIP code area 96701. It stands on Waimalu Stream. The Survey maps it on the Waipahu quadrangle.

Kalauao within Honolulu County

On record in Kalauao

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 11 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

900 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 900 fires within 5 miles of Kalauao between 1992 and 2017, burning about 2,956 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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/undetermined899
Arson/incendiarism1

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
9 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCity and County of Honolulunot named
9 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCity and County of Honolulunot named
9 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCity and County of Honolulunot named
9 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCity and County of Honolulunot named
9 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresCity and County of Honolulunot named
8 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCity and County of Honolulunot named
8 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCity and County of Honolulunot named
7 September 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCity and County of Honolulunot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Honolulu County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Kalauao: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Halawa Quarry and MillStoneProducer

Every working recorded in Honolulu 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
Waiau0.7 miles11
ʻAiea0.7 miles11
Hālawa1.4 miles11
Waimalu1.5 miles11
Pearl City1.5 miles11
ʻAiea Heights1.5 miles11
Hālawa Hills1.8 miles11
Foster Village1.8 miles15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 360091. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.