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Photograph of Puunene School
Photograph by Joel Bradshaw, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Puunene School

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.

From the record

“The School, also known as Puunene School, is a historic school building in the community of in the central part of Maui, Hawaii, United States. Built in 1922 by the Hawaiian Commercial and Sugar Company, which ran the community, it was erected on 10 acres (4.0 ha) of land donated by the company in 1913.”

Wikipedia article Puunene School, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 41 National Register listings published here for Maui County · listed in 2000 · category: Building.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

  • Address. Jct. of Puunene Ave. and Mokulele Hwy., Puunene, 96732
  • When was it listed? August 2000
  • Category. building
  • Also known as. Maui Public Schools MPS
  • Census division. Puunene
  • Architectural style. Neoclassical architecture
  • National Register reference number. 00000663 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Fires near this property

239 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 239 fires within 5 miles of Puunene School between 2004 and 2020, burning about 21,406 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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/undetermined237
Arson/incendiarism1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
8 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresCounty of Mauinot named
5 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Mauinot named
4 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Mauinot named
4 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Mauinot named
3 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresCounty of Mauinot named
29 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Mauinot named
28 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Mauinot named
25 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresCounty of Mauinot named

Every fire recorded in Maui County

Mines and quarries near this property

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Puunene School: 2 producers, 1 past producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Calcium. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Hcs Lime Pit and MillCalciumPast Producer
Maui Block MillStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Waikapu Pit and MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Maui County

Map coverage status

No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.

Listed places nearby

6 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Kahului Railroad Administration Building2.3 miles2016
Ka'ahumanu Avenue-Naniloa Drive Overpass3.3 miles2008
Henry Perrine Baldwin High School3.4 miles2000
Maui Jinsha Mission3.8 miles1978
Wai'ale Drive Bridge3.8 miles1998
Kaahumanu Church3.8 miles1975

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 00000663 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Maui CountyAll 41 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

  • Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
  • Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
  • How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
  • 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.
  • Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.