Wailuku School

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.

From the record

“Wailuku Elementary School is a public elementary school operated by the Hawaii Department of Education, occupying a historic school building in Wailuku, Hawaii.”
Wikipedia article Wailuku Elementary 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

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. High St., Wailuku, 96793
When was it listed? June 2000
Category. building
Also known as. Maui Public Schools MPS
Census division. Wailuku
National Register reference number. 00000666 - 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

218 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 218 fires within 5 miles of Wailuku School between 2004 and 2019, burning about 17,075 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/undetermined	217
Arson/incendiarism	1

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
8 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	County of Maui	not named
5 September 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	County of Maui	not named
4 September 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	County of Maui	not named
29 September 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	County of Maui	not named
28 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	County of Maui	not named
23 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	County of Maui	not named
23 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	County of Maui	not named
22 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	County of Maui	not 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 Wailuku School: 2 producers, 1 past producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
Maui Block Mill	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Happy Valley Pit and Mill	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Waikapu Pit and Mill	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Maui County

Storms near this property

15 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wailuku, the town this property stands in, in 15 storm reports between 1998 and 2021: 7 heavy rain, 6 flash flood, 1 flood, 1 funnel cloud. 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
January 2013	Flash Flood	Wailuku	-	Flood waters overwhelmed a drainage system and swamped a business along North Market Street in Wailuku.
November 2013	Flash Flood	Wailuku	-	Fire crew responded to report of flooding at 399 N. Market Street in Wailuku. High water affected a church building and nearby apartments.
November 2013	Flash Flood	Wailuku	-	A home became flooded along Holua Drive in Kahului.
November 2013	Flash Flood	Wailuku	-	A home became flooded along Pala Circle in Kahului.
November 2013	Flash Flood	Wailuku	-	A home became flooded along Palama Drive in Kahului.
March 2004	Heavy Rain	Wailuku	-	Heavy showers caused ponding of roadways, and small stream and drainage ditch flooding in windward parts of East and West Maui. There were no reports of serious property damage or injuries.
December 2021	Heavy Rain	Wailuku	-	no account filed
August 2018	Heavy Rain	Wailuku	-	no account filed
April 2003	Heavy Rain	Wailuku	-	no account filed
September 2002	Heavy Rain	Wailuku	-	no account filed
May 2002	Heavy Rain	Wailuku	-	no account filed
July 2002	Flash Flood	Wailuku	-	no account filed
August 2002	Heavy Rain	Wailuku	-	no account filed
May 2001	Funnel Cloud	Wailuku	-	no account filed
November 1998	Flood	Wailuku	-	no account filed

Every storm 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Wailuku Civic Center Historic District	0.2 miles	1986
Old Bailey House	0.2 miles	1973
Chee Kung Tong Society Building	0.4 miles	1982
Iao Theater	0.4 miles	1995
Wai'ale Drive Bridge	0.6 miles	1998
Kaahumanu Church	0.8 miles	1975

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 00000666 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Maui County	All 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.
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.