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Pacific Palisades, Hawaii

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1998. It stands in the Ewa census division. It lies in ZIP code area 96782. It stands on Mānana Stream. The Survey maps it on the Waipahu quadrangle.

Pacific Palisades within Honolulu County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 11 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

859 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 859 fires within 5 miles of Pacific Palisades between 1992 and 2017, burning about 3,685 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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/undetermined857
Arson/incendiarism1
Recreation and ceremony1

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 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCity and County of Honolulunot named
9 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresCity and County of Honolulunot named
9 September 2001Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCity and County of Honolulunot named
8 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCity and County of Honolulunot named
8 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCity and County of Honolulunot named
8 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCity and County of Honolulunot named
7 September 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCity and County of Honolulunot named
6 September 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCity and County of Honolulunot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Honolulu County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Pacific Palisades: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: 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
Halawa Quarry and MillStoneProducer

Every working recorded in Honolulu County

Storms near this place

4 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pacific Palisades in 4 storm reports between 1998 and 2013: 2 wildfire, 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
October 2013Heavy RainPacific Palisades-Members of the public reported small hail - 0.25 of an inch - at Mililani High School around 12 noon.
October 2013Heavy RainPacific Palisades-no account filed
July 2002WildfirePacific Palisades-no account filed
May 1998WildfirePacific Palisades-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Honolulu 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
Pearl City1.5 miles11
Waimalu1.5 miles11
ʻEwa-Schofield Junction2.4 miles11
Waiau2.4 miles11
Crestview2.5 miles11
Waipiʻo2.5 miles11
Kalauao3.0 miles11
ʻAiea3.2 miles11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 362927. 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.