Kapalawai, Hawaii

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 3 records

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

• Russian FortNational Historic Landmark · listed 1966 · 0.6 miles away
• Cook Landing SiteNational Historic Landmark · listed 1966 · 0.7 miles away
• Bishop National Bank of Hawaiilisted 1978 · 0.9 miles away

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 Kauai quadrangle1:250000
• 1963 USGS Hanapepe quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1967 USGS Kauai quadrangle1:250000
• 1970 USGS Kauai quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1977 USGS Hanapepe quadrangle1:24000
• 1983 USGS Hanapepe quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1996 USGS Hanapepe quadrangle1:24000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 146 fires within 5 miles of Kapalawai between 2001 and 2020, burning about 6,434 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:

• Kekaha
• Kekupua
• Pokii
• Pākalā Village
• Waimea
• Nonopahu Village (historical)

Every fire recorded in Kauai County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Kapalawai: 1 past producer, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Pumice, Salt. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Kauai 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 365110. 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.