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Kaahumanu Church

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.

From the record

“Church is a church in Wailuku, Maui, Hawaii. The hymns and invocation in the services are in the Hawaiian language. which echo the legacy of Hawaiian churches in the survival of the Hawaiian language where it was banned from being spoken in public.”

Wikipedia article Kaahumanu Church, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 41 National Register listings published here for Maui County · listed in 1975 · category: Building.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · 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 building, 1 site as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. S. High St., Wailuku, 96793
  • When was it listed? May 1975
  • Category. building
  • Census division. Wailuku
  • National Register reference number. 75000622 - 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

224 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 224 fires within 5 miles of Kaahumanu Church between 2004 and 2019, burning about 17,067 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/undetermined223
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
8 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresCounty of Mauinot named
5 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Mauinot named
4 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Mauinot named
29 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Mauinot named
28 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Mauinot named
23 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Mauinot named
23 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Mauinot named
22 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Mauinot named

Every fire recorded in Maui County

Mines and quarries near this property

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Kaahumanu Church: 2 producers, 2 past producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Calcium. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Hcs Lime Pit and MillCalciumPast Producer
Maui Block MillStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Happy Valley Pit and MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Waikapu Pit and MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Maui County

Storms near this property

15 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wailuku, the town this property stands in, in 15 storm reports between 1998 and 2021: 7 heavy rain, 6 flash flood, 1 flood, 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
January 2013Flash FloodWailuku-Flood waters overwhelmed a drainage system and swamped a business along North Market Street in Wailuku.
November 2013Flash FloodWailuku-Fire crew responded to report of flooding at 399 N. Market Street in Wailuku. High water affected a church building and nearby apartments.
November 2013Flash FloodWailuku-A home became flooded along Holua Drive in Kahului.
November 2013Flash FloodWailuku-A home became flooded along Pala Circle in Kahului.
November 2013Flash FloodWailuku-A home became flooded along Palama Drive in Kahului.
March 2004Heavy RainWailuku-Heavy showers caused ponding of roadways, and small stream and drainage ditch flooding in windward parts of East and West Maui. There were no reports of serious property damage or injuries.
December 2021Heavy RainWailuku-no account filed
August 2018Heavy RainWailuku-no account filed
April 2003Heavy RainWailuku-no account filed
September 2002Heavy RainWailuku-no account filed
May 2002Heavy RainWailuku-no account filed
July 2002Flash FloodWailuku-no account filed
August 2002Heavy RainWailuku-no account filed
May 2001Funnel CloudWailuku-no account filed
November 1998FloodWailuku-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Maui 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
Wai'ale Drive Bridge0.2 miles1998
Iao Theater0.4 miles1995
Henry Perrine Baldwin High School0.4 miles2000
Ka'ahumanu Avenue-Naniloa Drive Overpass0.5 miles2008
Chee Kung Tong Society Building0.6 miles1982
Wailuku Civic Center Historic District0.7 miles1986

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 75000622 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Maui CountyAll 41 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.