BlockMāhukona, Hawaii
15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1913 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the North Kohala census division. It lies in ZIP code area 96743. The Survey maps it on the Mahukona quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
10 surveys from 15 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1913 USGS Kohala quadrangle1:62500
- 1916 USGS Kohala quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1954 USGS Hawaii North quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Mahukona quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1959 USGS Hawaii North quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Hawaii North quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1975 USGS Hawaii quadrangle1:250000
- 1980 USGS Hawaii County Sheet 1 quadrangle1:100000
- 1982 USGS Mahukona quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1995 USGS Mahukona quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
21 since 2004Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 21 fires within 5 miles of Māhukona between 2004 and 2011, burning about 4,090 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/undetermined | 21 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | County of Hawai'i | not named |
| 29 September 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | County of Hawai'i | not named |
| 2 September 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 200 acres | County of Hawai'i | not named |
| 6 August 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | County of Hawai'i | not named |
| 28 August 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | County of Hawai'i | not named |
| 2 August 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2,500 acres | County of Hawai'i | not named |
| 6 July 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 acres | County of Hawai'i | not named |
| 12 July 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 150 acres | County of Hawai'i | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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.
Elsewhere
Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.
| Wikipedia article on Māhukona | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1573847 | The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0). |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 361987. 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.