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One of 39 National Register listings published here for Kauai County · listed in 1973 · category: Site.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article
Menehune Fishpond
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.
The listing
- Address. S of Lihue on Huleia River, Lihue, 96766
- When was it listed? March 1973
- Category. site
- Census division. Puhi-Hanamaulu
- National Register reference number. 73000677 - 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
165 since 2001Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 165 fires within 5 miles of Menehune Fishpond between 2001 and 2012, burning about 592 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 | 163 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | County of Kaua'i | not named |
| 26 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | County of Kaua'i | not named |
| 26 September 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | County of Kaua'i | not named |
| 25 September 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 20 acres | County of Kaua'i | not named |
| 24 September 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | County of Kaua'i | not named |
| 15 September 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | County of Kaua'i | not named |
| 12 September 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | County of Kaua'i | not named |
| 12 September 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | County of Kaua'i | not named |
Mines and quarries near this property
3 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Menehune Fishpond: 2 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bluestone Quarry and Mill | Stone | Producer | ||
| 45 Hm Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Kapaia Valley Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer |
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 milesOther 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 | Property | Distance | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Grove Farm | 1.2 miles | 1974 |
| Grove Farm (Boundary Increase) | 1.3 miles | 1978 | |
| Grove Farm Company Locomotives | 1.8 miles | 1979 | |
 | US Post Office-Lihue | 1.9 miles | 1989 |
 | Albert Spencer Wilcox Building | 1.9 miles | 1979 |
 | Lihue Civic Center Historic District | 1.9 miles | 1981 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 73000677 in Record Group 79. |
| Wikipedia article | Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA. |
| Kauai County | All 39 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.