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One of 41 National Register listings published here for Maui County · listed in 2025 · category: Building.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
The Bookkeeper's House, Pioneer Mill-Lahaina Ice Co.
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2025.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
- Still standing. The Park Service records this property as extant.
- Address. 271 Front St., Lahaina, 96761
- When was it listed? November 2025
- Category. building
- Census division. Lahaina
- National Register reference number. 100010125 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
154 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 154 fires within 5 miles of The Bookkeeper's House, Pioneer Mill-Lahaina Ice Co. between 1998 and 2019, burning about 8,233 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/undetermined | 154 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 September 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | County of Maui | not named |
| 6 September 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | County of Maui | not named |
| 5 September 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | County of Maui | not named |
| 30 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | County of Maui | not named |
| 3 September 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 8.0 acres | County of Maui | not named |
| 29 September 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 125 acres | County of Maui | not named |
| 28 September 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | County of Maui | not named |
| 26 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 75 acres | State of Hawaii | not named |
Mines and quarries near this property
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of The Bookkeeper's House, Pioneer Mill-Lahaina Ice Co.: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Pumice. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Olowalu Cinder Pit | Pumice | Past Producer |
Storms near this property
21 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lahaina, the town this property stands in, in 21 storm reports between 1997 and 2024: 11 heavy rain, 4 flash flood, 2 flood, 2 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 1997 | Flash Flood | Lahaina | $536,000 | no account filed |
| January 2024 | Flood | Lahaina | - | Keawe St between Honoapiilani Highway and Komo Mai St had standing water 6 to 8 inches deep. |
| September 2018 | Flash Flood | Lahaina | - | Water from heavy rain was getting into some businesses along Front Street in Lahaina in West Maui. Also, a home was inundated on Lahainaluna Road in Lahaina. |
| September 2015 | Heavy Rain | Lahaina | - | no account filed |
| October 2011 | Heavy Rain | Lahaina | - | no account filed |
| March 2009 | Heavy Rain | Lahaina | - | no account filed |
| November 2007 | Heavy Rain | Lahaina | - | no account filed |
| March 2006 | Flash Flood | Lahaina | - | no account filed |
| January 2004 | Heavy Rain | Lahaina | - | no account filed |
| February 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lahaina | - | no account filed |
| January 2004 | Heavy Rain | Lahaina | - | no account filed |
| February 2004 | Heavy Rain | Lahaina | - | no account filed |
| January 2004 | Heavy Rain | Lahaina | - | no account filed |
| December 2003 | Heavy Rain | Lahaina | - | no account filed |
| February 2003 | Funnel Cloud | Lahaina | - | no account filed |
| October 2002 | Heavy Rain | Lahaina | - | no account filed |
| October 2002 | Heavy Rain | Lahaina | - | no account filed |
| October 2002 | Flash Flood | Lahaina | - | no account filed |
| September 1999 | Funnel Cloud | Lahaina | - | no account filed |
| December 1998 | Flood | Lahaina | - | no account filed |
| November 1997 | Lightning | Lahaina | - | no account filed |
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
5 within 8 milesOther 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 | Property | Distance | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
| William K. Kaluakini House | 0.2 miles | 2013 | |
 | King Kamehameha III's Royal Residential Complex | 0.4 miles | 1997 |
 | Lahaina Historic District | 0.8 miles | 1966 |
 | Wo Hing Society Building | 1.3 miles | 1982 |
 | Hale Pa'i | 2.1 miles | 1976 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100010125 in Record Group 79. |
| 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.