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Kalihi Kai, Hawaii

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1998. It stands in the Honolulu census division. It lies in ZIP code area 96819. It stands on Kapālama Stream. The Survey maps it on the Honolulu quadrangle.

Kalihi Kai within Honolulu County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 13 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

706 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 706 fires within 5 miles of Kalihi Kai between 1992 and 2017, burning about 435 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/undetermined705
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 2010Missing 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 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCity and County of Honolulunot named
8 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined30 acresCity and County of Honolulunot named
8 September 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCity and County of Honolulunot named
8 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 Kalihi Kai: 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
Kaʻahumanu Homes0.6 miles13
Kamehameha Homes0.7 miles13
Kalihi0.8 miles13
Iwilei0.9 miles13
Mokumoa Island (historical)1.0 miles15
Puahala Homes1.1 miles13
Mayor Wright Homes1.2 miles13
Kamehameha Heights1.4 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 360136. 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.