Piilanihale Heiau

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

From the record

One of 41 National Register listings published here for Maui County · listed in 1966 · category: Structure · a National Historic Landmark.

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

The listing

Address. 4 mi. N of Hana, at the mouth of Honomaele Gulch near Kalahu Point, Hana, 96713
When was it listed? October 1966
Category. structure
Census division. Hana
National Register reference number. 66000300 - 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

4 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Piilanihale Heiau between 2011 and 2012, burning under an acre 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	4

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
2 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	County of Maui	not named
17 September 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	County of Maui	not named
9 February 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	County of Maui	not named
5 December 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	County of Maui	not named

Every fire recorded in Maui 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

3 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
Hana District Police Station and Courthouse	4.6 miles	1991
Wananalua Congregational Church	4.9 miles	1988
Keanae School	7.2 miles	2000

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 66000300 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.