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Pūlehu, Hawaii

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Kula census division. It lies in ZIP code area 96790. It lies near Pōhakuokalā Gulch. The Survey maps it on the Kilohana quadrangle.

Pūlehu 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

89 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 89 fires within 5 miles of Pūlehu between 1992 and 2017, burning about 273 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/undetermined87
Equipment and vehicle use2

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
25 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Mauinot named
25 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresCounty of Mauinot named
18 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Mauinot named
9 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined9.0 acresCounty of Mauinot named
8 August 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Mauinot named
7 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresCounty of Mauinot named
6 August 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Mauinot named
31 August 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresCounty of Mauinot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Maui County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Pūlehu: 3 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Aluminum, Titanium, Metal, Aluminum. 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
Maui Bauxite DepositTitanium, Metal, AluminumOccurrenceBauxite, Ilmenite
West MauiAluminumOccurrenceGibbsite
West MauiAluminumOccurrence

Every working 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
ʻŌmaʻopio1.0 miles9
Waiakoa1.2 miles9
Kaʻonoʻulu (historical)2.8 miles8
Olinda3.2 miles9
Pukalani4.1 miles9
Makawao5.0 miles10
Kēōkea5.0 miles9
Kaʻiliʻili (historical)5.6 miles10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 363531. 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.