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Puʻuʻeo, Hawaii

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1917 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the Hilo census division. It lies in ZIP code area 96720. It stands on Wailuku River. The Survey maps it on the Hilo quadrangle.

Puʻuʻeo within Hawaii County

On record in Puʻuʻeo

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 12 of 16 shown

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

Every listing in Hawaii County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 15 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

94 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 94 fires within 5 miles of Puʻuʻeo between 1999 and 2012, burning about 88 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/undetermined94

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
6 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Hawai'inot named
6 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresCounty of Hawai'inot named
29 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
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
26 August 2008Missing 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

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 Puʻuʻeo: 3 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Hilo Quarry and MillStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Keaau Mill and QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Yamada Hilo Quarry and MillStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working 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
Hilo0.5 miles15
Wainaku0.9 miles15
Makaokū1.4 miles15
Waiākea1.6 miles15
Paukaa2.3 miles11
Keaukaha2.5 miles15
Piʻihonua2.7 miles15
ʻĀkōlea Plantation Estates3.0 miles15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 364128. 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.