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Photograph of Puna-Ka'u Historic District
Photograph by MPSharwood, CC BY-SA 4.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Puna-Ka'u Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.

From the record

“The Historic District is an archaeological district located on the coastline in Hawaii Volcanoes National Park. The district includes over 300 sites occupied by Polynesians from the 13th through 19th centuries.”

Wikipedia article Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 107 National Register listings published here for Hawaii County · listed in 1974 · category: District.

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

The listing

  • Address. Hawaii Volcanoes National Park, Pahala
  • When was it listed? July 1974
  • Category. district
  • Census division. Kau
  • National Register reference number. 74000294 - 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

14 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Puna-Ka'u Historic District between 1992 and 2012, burning about 1 acre 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
Recreation and ceremony12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
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
18 July 2011Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreHawaii Volcanoes National ParkKEAUHOU FIRE
18 July 1994Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreHawaii Volcanoes National ParkBONEHEAD
12 July 2010Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreHawaii Volcanoes National ParkHALAPE
11 July 1994Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreHawaii Volcanoes National ParkBETHS 1ST
26 May 1997Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreHawaii Volcanoes National ParkCARELESS 2
25 May 1997Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreHawaii Volcanoes National ParkCARELESS
4 March 2010Arson/incendiarismunder an acreHawaii Volcanoes National ParkKEALAKOMO
3 February 1992Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreHawaii Volcanoes National ParkGOSLING 2

Every fire recorded in Hawaii 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
Ainahou Ranch4.5 miles1995
Hilina Pali Road4.7 miles2015
Hilina Pali Road4.8 miles2015
Hilina Pali Road5.0 miles2015
Hilina Pali Road5.1 miles2015
Hilina Pali Road5.2 miles2015

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 74000294 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Hawaii CountyAll 107 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.