BlockFrom the record
One of 107 National Register listings published here for Hawaii County · listed in 1978 · category: Building.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Tong Wo Society Building
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
- Address. HI 27, Halawa, 96755
- When was it listed? June 1978
- Category. building
- Census division. North Kohala
- National Register reference number. 78001011 - 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
23 since 2004Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 23 fires within 5 miles of Tong Wo Society Building between 2004 and 2012, burning about 8 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 | 23 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | County of Hawai'i | not named |
| 15 September 2004 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | County of Hawai'i | not named |
| 12 September 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | County of Hawai'i | not named |
| 6 August 2004 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | County of Hawai'i | not named |
| 25 August 2004 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | County of Hawai'i | not named |
| 14 August 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | County of Hawai'i | not named |
| 21 June 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | County of Hawai'i | not named |
| 9 May 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | County of Hawai'i | not named |
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
4 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Bond District | 1.8 miles | 1978 |
 | A. Nanbu Hotel-Holy's Bakery | 2.0 miles | 1999 |
 | Kohala District Courthouse | 2.1 miles | 1979 |
 | Mookini Heiau | 7.7 miles | 1966 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 78001011 in Record Group 79. |
| 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.