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Numila, Hawaii

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1996. It stands in the Eleele-Kalaheo census division. It lies in ZIP code area 96705. It stands on Wahiawa Stream. The Survey maps it on the Hanapepe quadrangle.

Numila within Kauai County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 10 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

125 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 125 fires within 5 miles of Numila between 2001 and 2012, burning about 255 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/undetermined125

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
9 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresCounty of Kaua'inot named
9 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreState of Hawaiinot named
7 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresCounty of Kaua'inot named
5 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresState of Hawaiinot named
27 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresCounty of Kaua'inot named
27 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Kaua'inot named
25 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Kaua'inot named
16 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Kaua'inot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Kauai County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Numila: 3 past producers, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Pumice, Salt, Stone. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Chang MillStonePast Producer
Unnamed SaltSaltUnknown
Cinder PitPumicePast Producer
Kapeku Cinder PitPumicePast Producer

Every working recorded in Kauai County

Storms near this place

2 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Numila in 2 storm reports between 2014 and 2020: 2 heavy rain. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2020Heavy RainNumila-no account filed
May 2014Heavy RainNumila-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Kauai 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
ʻEleʻele1.5 miles10
Port Allen1.6 miles10
Hanapēpē2.0 miles10
Hanapēpē Heights2.1 miles10
Kalāheo2.4 miles9
Lāwaʻi3.3 miles9
Kaumakani3.5 miles10
Kapaka (historical)3.6 miles10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 362720. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.