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Photograph of Kohala District Courthouse
Photograph by Howard Olsen, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Kohala District Courthouse

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.

From the record

“The Kohala District Courthouse is a historic courthouse in Kapaau on the island of Hawaii. The courthouse was built in 1889 to serve as a district court for the Kingdom of Hawaii; it continued to serve as a courthouse through U.S. annexation and Hawaii's eventual statehood, only closing in 1975.”

Wikipedia article Kohala District Courthouse, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 107 National Register listings published here for Hawaii County · listed in 1979 · 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 4 objectss, 1 building as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. Government Rd., Kapaau, 96755
  • When was it listed? August 1979
  • Category. building
  • Census division. North Kohala
  • National Register reference number. 79000754 - 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

24 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 24 fires within 5 miles of Kohala District Courthouse 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/undetermined24

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
20 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Hawai'inot named
15 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Hawai'inot named
12 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Hawai'inot named
6 August 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Hawai'inot named
28 August 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Hawai'inot named
25 August 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Hawai'inot named
14 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Hawai'inot named
21 June 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Hawai'inot 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

4 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
A. Nanbu Hotel-Holy's Bakery0.1 miles1999
Bond District0.4 miles1978
Tong Wo Society Building2.1 miles1978
Mookini Heiau5.6 miles1966

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 79000754 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Hawaii CountyAll 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.