Keaiwa Heiau

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.

From the record

One of 154 National Register listings published here for Honolulu County · listed in 1972 · category: Site.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 site as contributing to the listing.
Address. Aeia Heights Dr., Aiea, 96701
When was it listed? November 1972
Category. site
Census division. Ewa
National Register reference number. 72000413 - 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

573 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 573 fires within 5 miles of Keaiwa Heiau between 1992 and 2017, burning about 1,008 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/undetermined	572
Arson/incendiarism	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
9 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	City and County of Honolulu	not named
9 September 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	City and County of Honolulu	not named
9 September 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	City and County of Honolulu	not named
8 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	30 acres	City and County of Honolulu	not named
8 September 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	City and County of Honolulu	not named
8 September 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	City and County of Honolulu	not named
6 September 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	City and County of Honolulu	not named
6 September 2001	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	City and County of Honolulu	not named

Every fire recorded in Honolulu 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 Keaiwa Heiau: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: 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	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Halawa Quarry and Mill	Stone	Producer

Every working recorded in Honolulu County

Storms near this property

7 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Aiea, the town this property stands in, in 7 storm reports between 1999 and 2006: 2 flood, 2 flash flood, 2 tornado, 1 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
March 2006	Flash Flood	Aiea	-	no account filed
December 2005	Tornado (F0)	Aiea	-	no account filed
November 2004	Funnel Cloud	Aiea	-	no account filed
February 2004	Tornado (F0)	Aiea	-	no account filed
December 2003	Flash Flood	Aiea	-	no account filed
September 2001	Flood	Aiea	-	no account filed
January 1999	Flood	Aiea	-	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.

Property	Distance	Listed
USS BOWFIN	3.0 miles	1982
Waimalu Shopping Center	3.0 miles	2021
CINCPAC Headquarters	3.1 miles	1987
Makalapa Naval Housing Historic District	3.3 miles	2017
Little Makalapa Naval Housing Historic District	3.7 miles	2017
USS ARIZONA Wreck	3.7 miles	1989

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 72000413 in Record Group 79.
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.
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.