BlockBefore

Pāpaʻi, Hawaii

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1924 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Keaau-Mountain View census division. It lies in ZIP code area 96749. The Survey maps it on the Keaau Ranch quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Pāpaʻi within Hawaii County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 13 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

25 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 25 fires within 5 miles of Pāpaʻi (historical) between 2004 and 2011, 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/undetermined25

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
2 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Hawai'inot named
15 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Hawai'inot named
1 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Hawai'inot named
9 August 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Hawai'inot named
9 August 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Hawai'inot named
6 August 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Hawai'inot named
16 August 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Hawai'inot named
14 August 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Hawai'inot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hawaii 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
Hāʻena3.3 miles13
Keaukaha4.1 miles15
Waiākea4.8 miles15
Makaokū5.1 miles15
Keaʻau5.6 miles13
Hilo5.9 miles15
Puʻuʻeo6.3 miles15
Waipāhoehoe6.5 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1905546. 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.