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Waieli, Hawaii

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Kekaha-Waimea census division. It lies in ZIP code area 96752. It stands on Waieli Drain. The Survey maps it on the Kekaha quadrangle.

Waieli within Kauai County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 7 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

24 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 24 fires within 5 miles of Waieli between 2003 and 2019, burning about 2,228 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/undetermined24

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 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined50 acresState of Hawaiinot named
9 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresCounty of Kaua'inot named
7 August 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Kaua'inot named
6 August 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Kaua'inot named
12 August 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Kaua'inot named
5 July 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Kaua'inot named
3 July 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Kaua'inot named
15 July 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Kaua'inot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Kauai 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
Mānā1.6 miles7
Kaunalewa (historical)2.6 miles7
Pokii4.2 miles7
Kekaha5.0 miles7
Waimea7.3 miles7
Kapalawai8.2 miles10
Nonopahu Village (historical)8.2 miles10
Kekupua8.7 miles10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1853131. 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.