Royal Gardens, Hawaii

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1922 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Pahoa-Kalapana census division. It lies in ZIP code area 96778. The Survey maps it on the Kalapana quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Royal Gardens within 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.

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
1966 USGS Kalapana quadrangle1:24000
1975 USGS Hawaii quadrangle1:250000
1980 USGS Hawaii County Sheet 2 quadrangle1:100000
1981 USGS Kalapana quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1994 USGS Kalapana quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

34 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 34 fires within 5 miles of Royal Gardens (historical) between 1992 and 2010, burning about 6,680 acres in total. 19 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
Natural	19
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	12
Recreation and ceremony	2
Smoking	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
10 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	County of Hawai'i	not named
27 August 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	County of Hawai'i	not named
22 August 2002	Smoking	under an acre	Hawaii Volcanoes National Park	PAOA
22 August 1992	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Hawaii Volcanoes National Park	KAMOAMOA
11 August 1995	Natural	181 acres	Hawaii Volcanoes National Park	ILI AHI
1 August 2002	Natural	100 acres	Hawaii Volcanoes National Park	MAU LOA
7 July 2002	Natural	7.0 acres	Hawaii Volcanoes National Park	KUPUKUPUIK
25 July 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	County of Hawai'i	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
Kapaahu	2.1 miles	15
Kalapana (historical)	3.2 miles	16
Laeʻapuki (historical)	3.4 miles	15
Kaimū	3.7 miles	16
Black Sands	5.6 miles	14
Kehena	6.2 miles	14
Kalapana Seaview Estates	7.0 miles	14
Kamaili	7.5 miles	14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1905574. 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.