Puu o Mahuka Heiau

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

From the record

“o Mahuka Heiau State Historic Site on the North Shore of is the largest heiau (temple) on the island, covering 2 acres (8,100 m2) on a hilltop overlooking Waimea Bay and Waimea Valley. From its commanding heights, sentries could once monitor much of the northern shoreline of and even spot signal fires from the Wailua Complex of Heiaus on with which it had ties.”
Wikipedia article o Mahuka Heiau State Monument, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 154 National Register listings published here for Honolulu County · listed in 1966 · category: Structure · 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. 4 mi. NE of Haleiwa on HI 83, overlooking Waimea Bay, Haleiwa, 96712
When was it listed? October 1966
Category. structure
Census division. Koolauloa
National Register reference number. 66000292 - 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

129 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 129 fires within 5 miles of Puu o Mahuka Heiau between 1992 and 2012, burning about 314 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	129

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 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	City and County of Honolulu	not named
8 September 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	City and County of Honolulu	not named
7 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	City and County of Honolulu	not named
4 September 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	City and County of Honolulu	not named
30 September 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	City and County of Honolulu	not named
30 September 2001	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	City and County of Honolulu	not named
25 September 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	City and County of Honolulu	not named
24 September 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	City and County of Honolulu	not named

Every fire recorded in Honolulu 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

5 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
Kawailoa Ryusenji Temple	2.8 miles	1978
Opana Radar Site	4.4 miles	1991
Waialua Fire Station	5.1 miles	1980
Waialua School	5.2 miles	1980
Marconi Wireless Telegraphy Station	7.1 miles	2013

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 66000292 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Honolulu County	All 154 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.