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Koaʻe, Hawaii

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1924 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the Pahoa-Kalapana census division. It lies in ZIP code area 96778. It lies near Kūkiʻi. The Survey maps it on the Kapoho OE N quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Koaʻe within Hawaii County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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

41 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 41 fires within 5 miles of Koaʻe (historical) between 2005 and 2011, burning about 16 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/undetermined41

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
26 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresCounty of Hawai'inot named
18 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Hawai'inot named
17 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Hawai'inot named
11 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresCounty of Hawai'inot named
11 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresCounty of Hawai'inot named
1 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Hawai'inot named
9 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Hawai'inot named
5 August 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
Kapoho1.5 miles13
Vacationland Hawaii2.3 miles15
Honolulu Landing (historical)2.9 miles14
Waiakahiula (historical)3.5 miles14
Hawaiʻi Beaches Estates3.5 miles14
Pūʻālaʻa3.8 miles15
Nānāwale Estates3.9 miles14
Hawaiian Beaches4.1 miles14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 365132. 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.