Nāhiku, Hawaii
8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Hana census division. It lies in ZIP code area 96708. It stands on Makapipi Stream. The Survey maps it on the Nahiku quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 8 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.
- 1954 USGS Maui quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Nahiku quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1966 USGS Maui quadrangle1:250000
- 1974 USGS Maui quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1983 USGS Nahiku quadrangle1:24000
- 1992 USGS Nahiku quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
2 since 2008Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Nāhiku between 2008 and 2012, burning about 3 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 | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11 March 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.0 acres | County of Maui | not named |
| 5 December 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | County of Maui | 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.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Upper Nahiku | 1.8 miles | 9 | |
| ʻUlaʻino (historical) | 2.3 miles | 9 | |
| Wailua | 2.6 miles | 8 | |
| Honomāʻele (historical) | 3.4 miles | 9 | |
| Keʻanae | 3.6 miles | 8 | |
| Kaʻelekū | 4.6 miles | 9 | |
| Hāna | 7.1 miles | 9 | |
| Oloewa (historical) | 7.6 miles | 9 |
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 Nāhiku | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q6959263 | 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 362526. 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.





