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Saddle Road Junction, Hawaii

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1997. It stands in the South Kohala census division. It lies in ZIP code area 96743. It lies near Nohonaohaeiki. The Survey maps it on the Nohonaohae quadrangle.

Saddle Road Junction within Hawaii County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 10 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

33 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 33 fires within 5 miles of Saddle Road Junction between 2004 and 2018, burning about 51,122 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/undetermined33

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 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined400 acresCounty of Hawai'inot named
2 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresCounty of Hawai'inot named
12 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Hawai'inot named
8 August 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresCounty of Hawai'inot named
8 August 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Hawai'inot named
4 August 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Hawai'inot named
29 August 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Hawai'inot named
21 August 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresCounty 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

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Saddle Road Junction: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Unnamed QuarryStonePast Producer

Every working recorded in Hawaii County

Storms near this place

14 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Saddle Road Junction in 14 storm reports between 2004 and 2022: 11 heavy rain, 3 flash flood. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
January 2022Flash FloodSaddle Road Junction-Highway 190 on the Big Island was closed between the Saddle Road junction and Waimea due to flooding waters that overflowed from Kamakoa Gulch. This was an impact from the Mana Road burn scar, the result of an earlier fire that devastated the local area.
March 2016Flash FloodSaddle Road Junction-Civil defense reported flooding on Highway 190 between mile markers 6 and 8, with barricades being placed around the flood waters.
December 2010Flash FloodSaddle Road Junction-A portion of Mamalahoa Highway, Highway 190, between mile posts 2 and 7 was closed at Kamakoa Gulch because of flooding.
March 2021Heavy RainSaddle Road Junction-no account filed
February 2021Heavy RainSaddle Road Junction-no account filed
March 2021Heavy RainSaddle Road Junction-no account filed
December 2020Heavy RainSaddle Road Junction-no account filed
September 2019Heavy RainSaddle Road Junction-no account filed
October 2018Heavy RainSaddle Road Junction-no account filed
July 2016Heavy RainSaddle Road Junction-no account filed
August 2015Heavy RainSaddle Road Junction-no account filed
October 2013Heavy RainSaddle Road Junction-no account filed
October 2013Heavy RainSaddle Road Junction-no account filed
November 2004Heavy RainSaddle Road Junction-no account filed

Every storm 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
Waikoloa5.4 miles13
Waikiʻi5.6 miles10
Puopelu5.9 miles15
Kūhiō Village6.1 miles15
Waimea6.1 miles15
Kawailiʻulā (historical)6.2 miles15
Waiʻaka6.4 miles15
Keʻāmuku (historical)6.8 miles10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 365185. 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.