Photograph of Puʻukoholā Heiau National Historic Site — Photograph by Bamse, CC BY-SA 4.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Pu'ukohola Heiau National Historic Site

A National Historic Landmark. Built in 1966. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.

From the record

“Heiau National Historic Site is a United States National Historic Site located on the northwestern coast of the island of The site preserves the National Historic Landmark ruins of the last major Ancient Hawaiian temple, and other historic sites.”
Wikipedia article Heiau National Historic Site, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 107 National Register listings published here for Hawaii County · listed in 1972 · category: District · built in 1966 · a National Historic Landmark.

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

The listing

Address. N end of Hawaii off HI 26, about 1 mi. SE of Kawaihae, Kawaihae, Island of Hawaii, 96743
When was it listed? August 1972
Category. district
Census division. South Kohala
When was it built? 1966
National Register reference number. 66000105 - 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

103 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 103 fires within 5 miles of Pu'ukohola Heiau National Historic Site between 1992 and 2020, burning about 10,665 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	96
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Recreation and ceremony	2
Arson/incendiarism	2
Fireworks	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
7 September 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	20 acres	County of Hawai'i	not named
30 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	County of Hawai'i	not named
23 September 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	County of Hawai'i	not named
20 September 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	County of Hawai'i	not named
16 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	County of Hawai'i	not named
12 September 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1,500 acres	County of Hawai'i	not named
1 September 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	County of Hawai'i	not named
8 August 2015	Equipment and vehicle use	3,884 acres	Puukohola Heiau National Historic Site	KAWAIHAE

Every fire recorded in Hawaii 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 Pu'ukohola Heiau National Historic Site: 3 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Calcium. 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
Yamada Kawaihae Coral Mill	Calcium	Past Producer
Boase Number 1 Quarry and Mill	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Kawaihae Coral Mill	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Hawaii 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

1 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	Property	Distance	Listed
	Pu'ukohola Heiau	0.2 miles	1966

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 66000105 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Hawaii County	All 107 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.