ʻĀpua, Hawaii

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1922 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the Kau census division. The Survey maps it on the Makaopuhi Crater quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

ʻĀpua within Hawaii County

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 17 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.

1922 USGS Puna quadrangle1:62500
1924 USGS Puna quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1954 USGS Hawaii South quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Hawaii South quadrangle1:250000
1961 USGS Hawaii South quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Hawaii South quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1963 USGS Makaopuhi Crater quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1975 USGS Hawaii quadrangle1:250000
1977 USGS Makaopuhi Crater quadrangle1:24000
1980 USGS Hawaii County Sheet 2 quadrangle1:100000
1981 USGS Makaopuhi Crater quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1995 USGS Makaopuhi Crater quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

7 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of ʻĀpua (historical) between 1992 and 2012, burning about 4,931 acres in total. 1 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
Recreation and ceremony	3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Natural	1
Arson/incendiarism	1

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
1 September 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Hawaii Volcanoes National Park	KEALAKOMO
18 July 2011	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Hawaii Volcanoes National Park	KEAUHOU FIRE
12 July 2010	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Hawaii Volcanoes National Park	HALAPE
12 May 2003	Natural	4,930 acres	Hawaii Volcanoes National Park	LUHI FIRE
4 March 2010	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Hawaii Volcanoes National Park	KEALAKOMO
2 February 1992	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Hawaii Volcanoes National Park	BLACK SPOT
13 November 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	National Parks in Hawaii	not 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Kealakomo (historical)	2.5 miles	17
Laeʻapuki (historical)	7.8 miles	15
Royal Gardens (historical)	10.7 miles	15
Kapaahu	11.2 miles	15
Mauna Loa Estates	11.7 miles	14
Volcano	11.8 miles	14
Royal Hawaiian Estates	12.9 miles	14
Kalapana (historical)	13.1 miles	16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1905295. 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.