Waimea, Hawaii

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

• Puu o Mahuka HeiauNational Historic Landmark · listed 1966 · 0.4 miles away

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.

• 1952 USGS Waimea quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1954 USGS Oahu quadrangle1:250000
• 1961 USGS Oahu quadrangle1:250000
• 1965 USGS Oahu quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1966 USGS Waimea quadrangle1:24000
• 1970 USGS Oahu quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1977 USGS Waimea quadrangle1:24000
• 1983 USGS Waimea quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1998 USGS Waimea quadrangle1:24000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 125 fires within 5 miles of Waimea between 1992 and 2012, burning about 314 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Pūpūkea
• Sunset Beach
• Kapaeloa
• Kawela
• Kawela Bay
• Waialeʻe

Every fire recorded in Honolulu County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Waimea in 5 storm reports between 2001 and 2021: 3 heavy rain, 1 waterspout, 1 debris flow. 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.

Every storm recorded in Honolulu County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 364793. 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.