Waikoloa Beach Resort, Hawaii
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1928 and the latest in 1997. It stands in the South Kohala census division. It lies in ZIP code area 96738. It lies near Pōhakulua. The Survey maps it on the Anaehoomalu quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 12 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1928 USGS Puako quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1954 USGS Hawaii North quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Anaehoomalu quadrangle1:24000
- 1959 USGS Hawaii North quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Hawaii North quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1975 USGS Hawaii quadrangle1:250000
- 1980 USGS Hawaii County Sheet 1 quadrangle1:100000
- 1982 USGS Anaehoomalu quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1997 USGS Anaehoomalu quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
20 since 2004Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 20 fires within 5 miles of Waikoloa Beach Resort between 2004 and 2012, burning about 2 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/undetermined | 20 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 September 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | County of Hawai'i | not named |
| 29 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | County of Hawai'i | not named |
| 23 September 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | County of Hawai'i | not named |
| 16 September 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | County of Hawai'i | not named |
| 8 August 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | County of Hawai'i | not named |
| 20 August 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | County of Hawai'i | not named |
| 19 August 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | County of Hawai'i | not named |
| 16 August 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | County of Hawai'i | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
2 since 2014Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Waikoloa Beach Resort in 2 storm reports between 2014 and 2016: 2 heavy rain. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2016 | Heavy Rain | Waikoloa Beach Resort | - | no account filed |
| January 2014 | Heavy Rain | Waikoloa Beach Resort | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| ʻAnaehoʻomalu | 0.4 miles | 12 | |
| Kapalaoa | 0.9 miles | 12 | |
| Weliweli | 1.8 miles | 12 | |
| Lahuipuaa (historical) | 1.9 miles | 13 | |
| Keawaiki | 2.5 miles | 12 | |
| Waikoloa Village | 3.3 miles | 13 | |
| Puakō | 4.3 miles | 13 | |
| Kīholo | 5.0 miles | 14 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2806906. 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.








