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Village Park, Hawaii

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1998. It stands in the Ewa census division. It lies in ZIP code area 96797. It stands on Kīpapa Stream. The Survey maps it on the Schofield Barracks quadrangle. 9,625 people lived here at the 2000 count. It stands 331 feet above sea level.

Village Park within Honolulu County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 12 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

1,289 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1,289 fires within 5 miles of Village Park between 1992 and 2019, burning about 4,568 acres in total. 1 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/undetermined1288
Natural1

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 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCity and County of Honolulunot named
9 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresCity and County of Honolulunot named
9 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresCity and County of Honolulunot named
9 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCity and County of Honolulunot named
9 September 2001Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCity and County of Honolulunot named
8 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCity and County of Honolulunot named
8 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCity and County of Honolulunot named
8 September 2008Missing 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

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 Village Park: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Calcium. 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
Ewa PitCalciumPast Producer

Every working recorded in Honolulu County

Storms near this place

7 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Village Park in 7 storm reports between 2011 and 2022: 6 heavy rain, 1 funnel cloud. 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 2022Heavy RainVillage Park-no account filed
March 2021Heavy RainVillage Park-no account filed
December 2021Heavy RainVillage Park-no account filed
June 2019Heavy RainVillage Park-no account filed
September 2011Funnel CloudVillage Park-no account filed
April 2011Heavy RainVillage Park-no account filed
October 2011Heavy RainVillage Park-no account filed

Every storm 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
Waipahu1.4 miles11
West Loch Estates1.8 miles15
East Kapolei1.9 miles14
Crestview2.0 miles11
Waipiʻo2.1 miles11
Honouliuli2.3 miles14
ʻEwa-Schofield Junction2.7 miles11
Lower Village2.8 miles14

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on Village ParkAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1866703The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1867262. 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.