1790 Footprints

Built in 1790. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.

From the record

“The 1790 Footprints are a set of footprints found near the volcano in present-day Hawaii Volcanoes National Park on the island of Resulting from an unusually explosive eruption, they may be associated with a series of battles in the area in 1790.”
Wikipedia article 1790 Footprints, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 107 National Register listings published here for Hawaii County · listed in 1974 · category: Site · built in 1790.

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

The listing

Address. 9.1 mi. SW of park headquarters on Hwy. 11, then foot trail to SE for 1 mi., Hawaii Volcanoes National Park
When was it listed? August 1974
Category. site
Census division. Kau
When was it built? 1790
National Register reference number. 74000351 - 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

53 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 53 fires within 5 miles of 1790 Footprints between 1992 and 2020, burning about 115 acres in total. 2 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 ceremony	39
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Debris and open burning	3
Natural	2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Arson/incendiarism	1
Smoking	1
Fireworks	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
30 September 2018	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Hawaii Volcanoes National Park	FOOTPRINTS
3 September 1996	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Hawaii Volcanoes National Park	MENESES
23 September 2001	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Hawaii Volcanoes National Park	STUMP
2 September 1995	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Hawaii Volcanoes National Park	LACY RANCH
9 August 1999	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Hawaii Volcanoes National Park	MAWAE
31 August 2017	Equipment and vehicle use	2.8 acres	Hawaii Volcanoes National Park	GRAVEL PIT
2 August 1992	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Hawaii Volcanoes National Park	BABOO2E
17 August 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	County of Hawai'i	not named

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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Mauna Loa Road	4.4 miles	2015
Mauna Loa Road	4.4 miles	2015
Mauna Loa Road	4.4 miles	2015
Mauna Loa Road	4.5 miles	2015
Kilauea Crater	4.5 miles	1974
Mauna Loa Road	4.6 miles	2015

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 74000351 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Hawaii County	All 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.