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Kalawao, Hawaii

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 1983. It lies in ZIP code area 96742. It stands on Waiʻaleʻia Stream. The Survey maps it on the Kamalo quadrangle.

Kalawao within Maui County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 8 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

6 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Kalawao between 1998 and 2016, burning about 646 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/undetermined2
Debris and open burning2
Arson/incendiarism1
Other causes1

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
6 September 2016Other causesunder an acreKalaupapa National Historical ParkSTATE KITCHEN
29 September 1998Debris and open burningunder an acreKalaupapa National Historical ParkBAND AID
30 August 1998Missing data/not specified/undetermined643 acresState of Hawaiinot named
14 June 1998Debris and open burningunder an acreKalaupapa National Historical ParkMOVIE SET
22 December 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresCounty of Mauinot named
5 November 2014Arson/incendiarismunder an acreKalaupapa National Historical ParkBEACH

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Maui County

Storms near this place

4 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Kalawao in 4 storm reports between 2009 and 2014: 4 heavy rain. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2014Heavy RainKalawao-no account filed
June 2011Heavy RainKalawao-no account filed
January 2010Heavy RainKalawao-no account filed
December 2009Heavy RainKalawao-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Maui 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
Kalaʻe3.2 miles7
Maʻālehu3.9 miles7
Kīpū3.9 miles7
Kualapuʻu5.0 miles7
Hoʻolehua6.4 miles7
Wailau (historical)6.5 miles8
Ranch Camp (historical)6.7 miles7
Manila Camp (historical)6.9 miles7

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 360098. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.