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One of 41 National Register listings published here for Maui County · listed in 2013 · category: Building.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Ma'alaea General Store
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2013.
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. 132 Ma'alaea Rd., Wailuku, 96793
- When was it listed? September 2013
- Category. building
- Census division. Kihei
- National Register reference number. 13000795 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
172 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 172 fires within 5 miles of Ma'alaea General Store between 1998 and 2020, burning about 42,431 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 were 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 | 169 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 570 acres | State of Hawaii | not named |
| 8 September 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | County of Maui | not named |
| 4 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | County of Maui | not named |
| 29 September 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | County of Maui | not named |
| 29 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | County of Maui | not named |
| 29 September 2011 | 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 |
| 27 September 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | County of Maui | not named |
Mines and quarries near this property
2 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Ma'alaea General Store: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Maui Block Mill | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Waikapu Pit and Mill | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Storms near this property
15 since 1998Regional 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 |
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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Kalepolepo Fishpond | 3.9 miles | 1996 |
 | Puunene School | 6.3 miles | 2000 |
 | Wailuku School | 6.4 miles | 2000 |
 | Wailuku Civic Center Historic District | 6.6 miles | 1986 |
 | Old Bailey House | 6.6 miles | 1973 |
 | Ka'ahumanu Avenue-Naniloa Drive Overpass | 6.6 miles | 2008 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 13000795 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.