Coco Palms Resort

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2021.

From the record

“Coco Palms Resort was a resort hotel in that was noted for its Hollywood connections, Hawaiian-themed weddings, torch lighting ceremonies, destruction by a hurricane, and long-standing land disputes. The resort includes or is near to many culturally significant spots and the sites of some of the most important legends and historical events for Native Hawaiians.”
Wikipedia article Coco Palms Resort, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 39 National Register listings published here for Kauai County · listed in 2021 · category: District.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Address. 4-241 Kuhio Highway, Kapaa, 96746
When was it listed? February 2021
Category. district
Census division. Wailua-Anahola
National Register reference number. 100006139 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

253 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 253 fires within 5 miles of Coco Palms Resort between 2001 and 2016, burning about 1,346 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	251
Equipment and vehicle use	1
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	under an acre	County of Kaua'i	not named
5 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	County of Kaua'i	not named
5 September 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	County of Kaua'i	not named
30 September 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	County of Kaua'i	not named
30 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	County of Kaua'i	not named
3 September 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	County of Kaua'i	not named
28 September 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	County of Kaua'i	not named
27 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	County of Kaua'i	not named

Every fire recorded in Kauai County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Coco Palms Resort: 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Aluminum, Iron, Phosphorus-Phosphates, Titanium, Water, Free, Silica. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	East Central Kauai Deposit	Aluminum, Iron, Phosphorus-Phosphates, Titanium, Water, Free, Silica	Prospect	1949

Every working recorded in Kauai 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
Wailua Complex of Heiaus	0.6 miles	1966
Pu'u'opae Bridge	2.4 miles	2005
Opaekaa Road Bridge	2.8 miles	1983
Lihue Hongwanji Mission	4.4 miles	1978
Seto Building	4.7 miles	1979
Lihue Civic Center Historic District	5.4 miles	1981

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 100006139 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Kauai County	All 39 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.