Kahaluu Fish Pond

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.

From the record

“Fishpond, historically known as Kahouna Fishpond, on Bay in windward is one of only four surviving ancient Hawaiian fishponds on that were still in use well into the 20th century. In the previous century there were at least 100 such fishponds around the island.”
Wikipedia article Fish Pond, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 154 National Register listings published here for Honolulu County · listed in 1973 · category: Site.

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

The listing

Address. NW of Laenani St. off Kamehameha Hwy., Kahaluu, 96744
When was it listed? March 1973
Category. site
Census division. Koolaupoko
National Register reference number. 73000668 - 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

158 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 158 fires within 5 miles of Kahaluu Fish Pond between 1992 and 2013, burning about 74 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	158

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 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	City and County of Honolulu	not named
6 September 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	City and County of Honolulu	not named
5 September 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	City and County of Honolulu	not named
29 September 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	City and County of Honolulu	not named
25 September 2001	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	City and County of Honolulu	not named
24 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	City and County of Honolulu	not named
24 September 2001	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	City and County of Honolulu	not named
20 September 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	City and County of Honolulu	not named

Every fire 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
Kahaluu Taro Lo'i	2.0 miles	1973
Leleahina Heiau	2.6 miles	1973
Molii Fishpond	3.7 miles	1972
Waikane Taro Flats	4.1 miles	1973
Kaneohe Naval Air Station	4.4 miles	1987
Kualoa Ahupua'a Historical District	4.5 miles	1974

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 73000668 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
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.