Russian Fort

A National Historic Landmark. Built in 1816. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1966.

From the record

“State Historical Park is a National Historic Landmark just southeast of present-day Waimea on the island of in It is the last remaining Native Hawaiian fort on the Hawaiian Islands, built in the early 19th century by natives with an Italian-based design provided by a German traveler who arrived on a Russian-American Company ship, as a project of High Chief”
Wikipedia article Russian Fort Elizabeth, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 39 National Register listings published here for Kauai County · listed in 1966 · category: Structure · built in 1816 · 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. On HI 50, 200 yds. SW of the bridge over the Waimea River, Waimea, 96769
When was it listed? October 1966
Category. structure
Census division. Kaumakani-Hanapepe
When was it built? 1816
National Register reference number. 66000299 - 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

140 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 140 fires within 5 miles of Russian Fort between 2001 and 2020, burning about 6,453 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	137
Railroad operations and maintenance	1
Recreation and ceremony	1
Debris and open burning	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 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	County of Kaua'i	not named
7 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	County of Kaua'i	not named
3 September 2012	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
27 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	County of Kaua'i	not named
25 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	County of Kaua'i	not named
12 September 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	County of Kaua'i	not named
10 September 2007	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

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Russian Fort: 1 past producer, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Pumice, Salt. 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
	Cinder Pit	Pumice	Past Producer
	Unnamed Salt	Salt	Unknown

Every working recorded in Kauai County

Storms near this property

8 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Waimea, the town this property stands in, in 8 storm reports between 1999 and 2022: 3 heavy rain, 2 flash flood, 1 wildfire, 1 tornado. 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
December 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Waimea	-	Emergency management reported widespread power outages due to thunderstorm wind gusts.
March 2016	Flash Flood	Waimea	-	Water from heavy rain was reported to be entering the Waimea Theater building.
January 2007	Heavy Rain	Waimea	-	Heavy showers over western parts of Kauai caused ponding on roadways, and small stream and drainage ditch flooding. No serious property damage or injuries were reported.\|
January 2011	Heavy Rain	Waimea	-	no account filed
March 2007	Heavy Rain	Waimea	-	no account filed
January 2005	Flash Flood	Waimea	-	no account filed
January 2005	Tornado (F0)	Waimea	-	no account filed
April 1999	Wildfire	Waimea	-	no account filed

Every storm 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
Cook Landing Site	0.2 miles	1966
Bishop National Bank of Hawaii	0.4 miles	1978
Yamase Building	0.5 miles	1996
Gulick-Rowell House	0.6 miles	1978
Charles Gay House	1.4 miles	1984
Kikiaola	1.5 miles	1984

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 66000299 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.
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.