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Keʻei, Hawaii

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1996. It stands in the South Kona census division. It lies in ZIP code area 96704. It lies near Kaʻōpapa. The Survey maps it on the Honaunau quadrangle.

Keʻei within Hawaii County

On record in Keʻei

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 12 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

26 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 26 fires within 5 miles of Keʻei between 2004 and 2012, burning about 7 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.

Reported cause Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined26

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 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Hawai'inot named
3 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresCounty of Hawai'inot named
11 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Hawai'inot named
2 July 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Hawai'inot named
18 July 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Hawai'inot named
23 April 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Hawai'inot named
6 March 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Hawai'inot named
27 March 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Hawai'inot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hawaii 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
Nāpōʻopoʻo0.7 miles12
Kaʻawaloa1.4 miles12
Captain Cook2.4 miles12
Hōnaunau2.7 miles12
Onouli (historical)3.8 miles15
Kēōkea3.9 miles12
Kealakekua4.1 miles15
Pawaina (historical)4.5 miles14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 361062. 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.