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Mahana, Hawaii

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the West Molokai census division. It lies in ZIP code area 96729. It lies near Puʻunānā. The Survey maps it on the Molokai Airport quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Mahana within Maui County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 8 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

18 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 18 fires within 5 miles of Mahana (historical) between 2003 and 2012, burning about 1,865 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/undetermined18

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
4 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresCounty of Mauinot named
11 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Mauinot named
10 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Mauinot named
23 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Mauinot named
7 July 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Mauinot named
7 June 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Mauinot named
4 June 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1,000 acresCounty of Mauinot named
25 June 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined400 acresCounty of Mauinot named

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
Moʻomomi3.1 miles8
Maunaloa3.7 miles6
Hoʻolehua4.2 miles7
Kualapuʻu5.8 miles7
Kepuhi5.8 miles6
ʻUmipaʻa5.8 miles7
Wahīlauhue5.8 miles6
Hālena6.2 miles6

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 365148. 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.