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Pūkoʻo, Hawaii

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the East Molokai census division. It lies in ZIP code area 96748. It lies in Pūkoʻo Gulch. The Survey maps it on the Halawa OE S quadrangle.

Pūkoʻo 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

12 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Pūkoʻo between 2005 and 2012, burning about 6 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/undetermined12

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
11 August 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresCounty of Mauinot named
7 July 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Mauinot named
28 July 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Mauinot named
26 July 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Mauinot named
22 July 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Mauinot named
9 June 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Mauinot named
21 June 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Mauinot named
31 October 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty 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
Kaluaʻaha1.4 miles8
Pauwalu1.5 miles8
ʻUalapuʻe2.0 miles8
Waialua2.4 miles8
Nawaa (historical)3.9 miles8
Kamalō4.5 miles8
Puʻuohoku Ranch6.0 miles8
Hālawa6.5 miles8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 363523. 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.