Lahaina Historic District

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

From the record

“Lahaina Historic District is a National Historic Landmark District encompassing most of the community of Lahaina, Hawaii, on the west side of the island of Maui in the US state of Hawaii. Designated in 1962, the district recognizes Lahaina for its well-preserved character as a 19th-century port, and for its social and economic importance in the 19th century as a major whaling center in the Pacific, and as one of the capital cities of the Kingdom of Hawaii.”
Wikipedia article Lahaina Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 41 National Register listings published here for Maui County · listed in 1966 · category: District · 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. W side of Maui on HI 30, Lahaina
When was it listed? October 1966
Category. district
Census division. Lahaina
National Register reference number. 66000302 - 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

151 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 151 fires within 5 miles of Lahaina Historic District between 1998 and 2019, burning about 5,243 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	151

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
6 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	County of Maui	not named
6 September 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	County of Maui	not named
5 September 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	County of Maui	not named
30 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	County of Maui	not named
3 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	8.0 acres	County of Maui	not named
29 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	125 acres	County of Maui	not named
28 September 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	County of Maui	not named
26 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	75 acres	State of Hawaii	not named

Every fire recorded in Maui County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Lahaina Historic District: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Pumice. 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
	Olowalu Cinder Pit	Pumice	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Maui County

Storms near this property

21 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lahaina, the town this property stands in, in 21 storm reports between 1997 and 2024: 11 heavy rain, 4 flash flood, 2 flood, 2 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 1997	Flash Flood	Lahaina	$536,000	no account filed
January 2024	Flood	Lahaina	-	Keawe St between Honoapiilani Highway and Komo Mai St had standing water 6 to 8 inches deep.
September 2018	Flash Flood	Lahaina	-	Water from heavy rain was getting into some businesses along Front Street in Lahaina in West Maui. Also, a home was inundated on Lahainaluna Road in Lahaina.
September 2015	Heavy Rain	Lahaina	-	no account filed
October 2011	Heavy Rain	Lahaina	-	no account filed
March 2009	Heavy Rain	Lahaina	-	no account filed
November 2007	Heavy Rain	Lahaina	-	no account filed
March 2006	Flash Flood	Lahaina	-	no account filed
January 2004	Heavy Rain	Lahaina	-	no account filed
February 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Lahaina	-	no account filed
January 2004	Heavy Rain	Lahaina	-	no account filed
February 2004	Heavy Rain	Lahaina	-	no account filed
January 2004	Heavy Rain	Lahaina	-	no account filed
December 2003	Heavy Rain	Lahaina	-	no account filed
February 2003	Funnel Cloud	Lahaina	-	no account filed
October 2002	Heavy Rain	Lahaina	-	no account filed
October 2002	Heavy Rain	Lahaina	-	no account filed
October 2002	Flash Flood	Lahaina	-	no account filed
September 1999	Funnel Cloud	Lahaina	-	no account filed
December 1998	Flood	Lahaina	-	no account filed
November 1997	Lightning	Lahaina	-	no account filed

Every storm 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

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
King Kamehameha III's Royal Residential Complex	0.7 miles	1997
William K. Kaluakini House	0.8 miles	2013
The Bookkeeper's House, Pioneer Mill-Lahaina Ice Co.	0.8 miles	2025
Wo Hing Society Building	0.8 miles	1982
Hale Pa'i	2.3 miles	1976

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 66000302 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
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.