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ʻUlupalakua, Hawaii

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the Kula census division. It lies in ZIP code area 96790. It lies near Puʻukaʻeo. The Survey maps it on the Makena quadrangle.

ʻUlupalakua within Maui County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 9 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

17 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 17 fires within 5 miles of ʻUlupalakua between 2003 and 2018, burning about 355 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/undetermined17

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
7 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Mauinot named
26 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Mauinot named
27 August 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined300 acresState of Hawaiinot named
1 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresState of HawaiiKANAIO FIRE
8 July 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Mauinot named
3 July 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Mauinot named
29 July 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Mauinot named
16 July 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Mauinot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Maui 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 ʻUlupalakua: 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
Wailea MillStonePast Producer

Every working recorded in Maui County

Storms near this place

5 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names ʻUlupalakua in 5 storm reports between 1997 and 2006: 3 heavy rain, 1 flood, 1 wildfire. 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 2006Heavy RainUlupalakua-no account filed
April 2004Heavy RainUlupalakua-no account filed
April 2004Heavy RainUlupalakua-no account filed
July 2003WildfireUlupalakua-no account filed
September 1997FloodUlupalakua-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Maui 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
Mākena2.4 miles9
Paako2.8 miles9
Onau (historical)2.9 miles9
Kanahena2.9 miles9
Keoneʻōʻio3.5 miles9
Wailea3.7 miles9
Maui Meadows3.8 miles9
Kēōkea4.7 miles9

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 364346. 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.