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Mūʻolea, Hawaii

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the Hana census division. It lies in ZIP code area 96713. It lies near Alaalaula Gulch. The Survey maps it on the Kipahulu quadrangle.

Mūʻolea within Maui County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 9 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

10 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Mūʻolea between 2000 and 2012, burning about 2 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/undetermined8
Recreation and ceremony2

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
30 August 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Mauinot named
4 July 2007Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreHaleakala National ParkKIPAHULU
5 June 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Mauinot named
27 June 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Mauinot named
16 June 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Mauinot named
22 May 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Mauinot named
9 April 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Mauinot named
5 March 2000Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreHaleakala National ParkLARSON

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Maui 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
Koali0.2 miles9
Hāʻōʻū0.8 miles9
Puʻuiki1.4 miles9
Kākiʻo2.0 miles9
Mokae2.5 miles9
Hāmoa2.8 miles9
Kīpahulu3.0 miles9
Hōkūʻula3.2 miles9

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 362501. 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.