Photograph of Kalaupapa Leprosy Settlement and National Historical Park — Photograph by Lisa Sasser from Amherst, NH, USA, CC BY 2.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Kalaupapa National Historical Park

A National Historic Landmark. Built in 1980. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.

From the record

“Kalaupapa National Historical Park is a United States National Historical Park located in Kalaupapa, on the island of Nearly coterminous with the boundaries of Kalawao County, and primarily on Kalaupapa peninsula, it was established by Congress in 1980 to expand upon the earlier National Historic Landmark site of the Kalaupapa Leper Settlement.”
Wikipedia article Kalaupapa National Historical Park, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 1 National Register listings published here for Kalawao County · listed in 1976 · category: District · built in 1980 · a National Historic Landmark.

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

The listing

Address. Kalaupapa National Park, Kalaupapa, 96742
When was it listed? January 1976
Category. district
Census division. Kalawao
When was it built? 1980
National Register reference number. 76002145 - 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

6 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Kalaupapa National Historical Park between 1998 and 2016, burning about 646 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/undetermined	2
Debris and open burning	2
Arson/incendiarism	1
Other causes	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
6 September 2016	Other causes	under an acre	Kalaupapa National Historical Park	STATE KITCHEN
29 September 1998	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Kalaupapa National Historical Park	BAND AID
30 August 1998	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	643 acres	State of Hawaii	not named
14 June 1998	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Kalaupapa National Historical Park	MOVIE SET
22 December 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	County of Maui	not named
5 November 2014	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Kalaupapa National Historical Park	BEACH

Every fire recorded in Kalawao 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 76002145 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Kalawao County	All 1 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.