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Photograph of Naval Station Pearl Harbor
Photograph by PH2 Thompson, USN, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Pearl Harbor U.S. Naval Base Operations Building

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

From the record

“Naval Station Pearl Harbor is a United States naval base on the island of Oahu, Hawaii. In 2010, as part of the recommendations of the Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) commission, the naval station was consolidated with the United States Air Force's Hickam Air Force Base to form Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam.”

Wikipedia article Naval Station Pearl Harbor, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 154 National Register listings published here for Honolulu County · listed in 1966 · category: Building · a National Historic Landmark.

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

The listing

  • National Historic Landmark. The highest federal designation, held by about 2,600 places in the country against roughly 100,000 Register listings.
  • Still standing. The Park Service records this property as extant.
  • Listed as. U.S. Naval Base, Pearl Harbor, Operations Building - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
  • Address. 3 mi. S of Pearl City on HI 73, Pearl City, 96818
  • When was it listed? October 1966
  • Category. building
  • Census division. Ewa
  • National Register reference number. 66000940 - 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

1,224 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1,224 fires within 5 miles of Pearl Harbor U.S. Naval Base Operations Building between 1992 and 2017, burning about 2,328 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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/undetermined1223
Arson/incendiarism1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
9 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCity and County of Honolulunot named
9 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCity and County of Honolulunot named
9 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCity and County of Honolulunot named
9 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCity and County of Honolulunot named
9 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCity and County of Honolulunot named
8 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCity and County of Honolulunot named
8 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCity and County of Honolulunot named
8 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCity and County of Honolulunot named

Every fire recorded in Honolulu 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 Pearl Harbor U.S. Naval Base Operations Building: 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Calcium, Stone. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Ewa PitCalciumPast Producer
Halawa Quarry and MillStoneProducer

Every working recorded in Honolulu County

Storms near this property

15 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pearl City, the town this property stands in, in 15 storm reports between 1996 and 2023: 6 heavy rain, 4 flood, 2 funnel cloud, 1 wildfire. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
February 2023FloodPearl City$1,000Officials reported that the Pearl City Peninsula Compound main gate and Victor Wharf Access Road were closed due to flooding.
April 2023FloodPearl City-A trained spotter reported that the roads near Acacia Rd and Kuala St. along |Kamehameha Highway was flooded in Pearl City. 6-12 inches of water was reported on the roadway with vehicles slow to move through. Also, one lane was closed on H1 and Punahou St, due to flooding over the road. Additionally, cars were stranded in ponding water on the off ramp at H1 and Vineyard.
November 2013Debris FlowPearl City-An emergency manager reported a debris flow, including large boulders, along Waihona Street at Waihona Place, in south central Oahu.
March 2004Heavy RainPearl City-Heavy showers and rain over southern and eastern areas of Oahu produced small stream and drainage ditch flooding, and ponding of roadways. However, no serious property damage or injuries were reported.
April 2017Heavy RainPearl City-no account filed
February 2015Heavy RainPearl City-no account filed
May 2014Heavy RainPearl City-no account filed
May 2011Funnel CloudPearl City-no account filed
February 2009Heavy RainPearl City-no account filed
October 2009Heavy RainPearl City-no account filed
March 2006Flash FloodPearl City-no account filed
March 1998WildfirePearl City-no account filed
August 1997FloodPearl City-no account filed
October 1997FloodPearl City-no account filed
June 1996Funnel CloudPearl City-no account filed

Every storm 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

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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
USS UTAH Wreck0.6 miles1989
USS ARIZONA Wreck0.8 miles1989
U.S.S. ARIZONA Memorial0.8 miles1966
USS BOWFIN1.5 miles1982
CINCPAC Headquarters1.7 miles1987
Makalapa Naval Housing Historic District1.7 miles2017

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 66000940 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Honolulu CountyAll 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.
  • 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.