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Waipiʻo, Hawaii

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1916 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the Honokaa-Kukuihaele census division. It lies in ZIP code area 96743. It stands on Hiʻilawe Stream. The Survey maps it on the Kukuihaele quadrangle.

Waipiʻo within Hawaii County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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

6 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Waipiʻo between 1996 and 2012, burning about 60 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/undetermined6

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
15 August 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Hawai'inot named
4 July 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Hawai'inot named
26 July 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Hawai'inot named
1 February 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresState of HawaiiPUU LAPAKAHI 14MM
2 November 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Hawai'inot named
30 October 1996Missing data/not specified/undetermined50 acresState of Hawaiinot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire 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
Kaʻau0.7 miles11
Akona0.9 miles11
Kukuihaele1.5 miles11
Kapulena3.7 miles11
Kawela5.5 miles14
Kūhiō Village6.9 miles15
Haina6.9 miles14
Honokaʻa7.1 miles14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 364891. 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.