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Punahou, Hawaii

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1998. It stands in the Honolulu census division. It lies in ZIP code area 96826. It stands on Makiki Stream. The Survey maps it on the Honolulu quadrangle.

Punahou within Honolulu County

On record in Punahou

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 13 shown

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

Every listing in Honolulu County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 13 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

727 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 727 fires within 5 miles of Punahou between 1992 and 2017, burning about 948 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/undetermined727

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 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCity and County of Honolulunot named
9 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCity and County of Honolulunot named
9 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCity and County of Honolulunot named
9 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCity and County of Honolulunot named
9 September 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCity and County of Honolulunot named
8 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined30 acresCity and County of Honolulunot named
8 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresCity and County of Honolulunot named
8 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

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
Kalakaua Homes0.4 miles13
Mōʻiliʻili0.7 miles13
Makiki Heights0.9 miles13
Honolulu1.4 miles13
Waikīkī1.4 miles13
Saint Louis Heights1.6 miles13
Pacific Heights1.6 miles13
Chinatown1.7 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1853109. 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.