Greenwell Store

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.

From the record

“The Greenwell Store is a historic building now run as a museum by the Kona Historical Society.”
Wikipedia article Greenwell Store, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 107 National Register listings published here for Hawaii County · listed in 1978 · 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 as contributing to the listing.
Address. HI 11, Kealakekua, 96750
When was it listed? May 1978
Category. building
Census division. South Kona
National Register reference number. 78001017 - 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

26 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 26 fires within 5 miles of Greenwell Store between 2004 and 2012, burning about 7 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	26

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
9 September 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	County of Hawai'i	not named
3 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	County of Hawai'i	not named
5 May 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	County of Hawai'i	not named
23 April 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	County of Hawai'i	not named
18 April 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	County of Hawai'i	not named
27 March 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	County of Hawai'i	not named
11 March 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	County of Hawai'i	not named
27 February 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	County of Hawai'i	not named

Every fire recorded in Hawaii County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Greenwell Store: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Keauaou Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Hawaii County

Storms near this property

14 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Kealakekua, the town this property stands in, in 14 storm reports between 1996 and 2017: 7 heavy rain, 3 flood, 2 hail, 1 lightning. 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
May 2011	Flash Flood	Kealakekua	-	Hawaii Belt Road was closed for a time at Kainaliu, just north of Kealakekua in Kona on the leeward side of the Big Island of Hawaii, because of flooding caused by heavy rain.
September 2017	Heavy Rain	Kealakekua	-	no account filed
May 2016	Heavy Rain	Kealakekua	-	no account filed
January 2014	Heavy Rain	Kealakekua	-	no account filed
December 2013	Heavy Rain	Kealakekua	-	no account filed
March 2006	Hail	Kealakekua	-	no account filed
September 2005	Heavy Rain	Kealakekua	-	no account filed
December 2005	Heavy Rain	Kealakekua	-	no account filed
April 2004	Heavy Rain	Kealakekua	-	no account filed
February 2002	Hail	Kealakekua	-	no account filed
November 2001	Flood	Kealakekua	-	no account filed
May 1997	Flood	Kealakekua	-	no account filed
November 1997	Lightning	Kealakekua	-	no account filed
June 1996	Flood	Kealakekua	-	no account filed

Every storm 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
Uchida Coffee Farm	1.4 miles	1995
Daifukuji Soto Zen Mission	2.4 miles	1994
Kealakekua Bay Historical District	2.7 miles	1973
Keauhou Holua Slide	4.1 miles	1966
Kahikolu Church	4.1 miles	1982
Kamehameha III's Birthplace	4.4 miles	1978

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 78001017 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.
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.