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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.

Waikoloa Beach Resort within Hawaii County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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

20 since 2004

Regional 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/undetermined20

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
5 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Hawai'inot named
29 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Hawai'inot named
23 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Hawai'inot named
16 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Hawai'inot named
8 August 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Hawai'inot named
20 August 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Hawai'inot named
19 August 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Hawai'inot named
16 August 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Hawai'inot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hawaii County

Storms near this place

2 since 2014

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 2016Heavy RainWaikoloa Beach Resort-no account filed
January 2014Heavy RainWaikoloa Beach Resort-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Hawaii 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
ʻAnaehoʻomalu0.4 miles12
Kapalaoa0.9 miles12
Weliweli1.8 miles12
Lahuipuaa (historical)1.9 miles13
Keawaiki2.5 miles12
Waikoloa Village3.3 miles13
Puakō4.3 miles13
Kīholo5.0 miles14

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.