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Port Allen, 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 Hanapēpē River. The Survey maps it on the Hanapepe quadrangle.

Port Allen within Kauai County

On record in Port Allen

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

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

115 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 115 fires within 5 miles of Port Allen between 2005 and 2012, burning about 286 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/undetermined115

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
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
11 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresState of Hawaiinot 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 Port Allen: 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

1 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Port Allen in 1 storm report in 2014: 1 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
May 2014Heavy RainPort Allen-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
ʻEleʻele0.3 miles10
Hanapēpē0.5 miles10
Hanapēpē Heights0.9 miles10
Numila1.6 miles10
Kaumakani1.9 miles10
Kapaka (historical)2.1 miles10
Olokele2.3 miles10
Kalāheo3.5 miles9

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on Port AllenAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q15267542The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 363427. 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.