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.
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.
Hanapepe Town Lot No. 18listed 1993 · 0.5 miles away
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 10 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1954 USGS Kauai quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS Hanapepe quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1967 USGS Kauai quadrangle1:250000
- 1970 USGS Kauai quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1977 USGS Hanapepe quadrangle1:24000
- 1983 USGS Hanapepe quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1996 USGS Hanapepe quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
115 since 2005Regional 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/undetermined | 115 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | County of Kaua'i | not named |
| 7 September 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | County of Kaua'i | not named |
| 5 September 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 acres | State of Hawaii | not named |
| 27 September 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 20 acres | County of Kaua'i | not named |
| 27 September 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | County of Kaua'i | not named |
| 25 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | County of Kaua'i | not named |
| 16 September 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | County of Kaua'i | not named |
| 11 September 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.5 acres | State of Hawaii | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
4 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chang Mill | Stone | Past Producer | ||
| Unnamed Salt | Salt | Unknown | ||
| Cinder Pit | Pumice | Past Producer | ||
| Kapeku Cinder Pit | Pumice | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
1 since 2014Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2014 | Heavy Rain | Port Allen | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| ʻEleʻele | 0.3 miles | 10 | |
| Hanapēpē | 0.5 miles | 10 | |
| Hanapēpē Heights | 0.9 miles | 10 | |
| Numila | 1.6 miles | 10 | |
| Kaumakani | 1.9 miles | 10 | |
| Kapaka (historical) | 2.1 miles | 10 | |
| Olokele | 2.3 miles | 10 | |
| Kalāheo | 3.5 miles | 9 |
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 Allen | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q15267542 | The 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.






