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Waialua, Hawaii

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the East Molokai census division. It lies in ZIP code area 96748. It stands on Waialua Stream. The Survey maps it on the Halawa quadrangle.

Waialua within Maui County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 8 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

10 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Waialua between 2005 and 2012, burning about 11 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/undetermined10

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
11 August 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresCounty of Mauinot named
11 August 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresCounty of Mauinot named
7 July 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Mauinot named
9 June 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Mauinot named
6 June 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresCounty of Mauinot named
31 October 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Mauinot named
20 October 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Mauinot named
20 October 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Mauinot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Maui County

Storms near this place

2 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Waialua in 2 storm reports between 2000 and 2001: 1 flash flood, 1 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
October 2001FloodWaialua-no account filed
October 2000Flash FloodWaialua-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
Pauwalu0.9 miles8
Pūkoʻo2.4 miles8
Kaluaʻaha3.8 miles8
Puʻuohoku Ranch3.8 miles8
Hālawa4.3 miles8
ʻUalapuʻe4.4 miles8
Wailau (historical)5.8 miles8
Nawaa (historical)6.2 miles8

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.

Wikidata item Q49370369The 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 364542. 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.

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.