Grove Farm Company Locomotives

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.

From the record

“There are two heritage railways in the birthplace of Hawaiian railroading. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on January 19, 1979.”
Wikipedia article Heritage railways in, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 39 National Register listings published here for Kauai County · listed in 1979 · category: Structure.

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 structuress as contributing to the listing.
Address. Off HI 50, Puhi, 96766
When was it listed? January 1979
Category. structure
Census division. Puhi-Hanamaulu
National Register reference number. 79000761 - 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

172 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 172 fires within 5 miles of Grove Farm Company Locomotives between 2001 and 2012, burning about 1,264 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	170
Recreation and ceremony	1
Equipment and vehicle use	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
8 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	County of Kaua'i	not named
26 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	County of Kaua'i	not named
26 September 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	County of Kaua'i	not named
25 September 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	20 acres	County of Kaua'i	not named
24 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	County of Kaua'i	not named
2 September 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	County of Kaua'i	not named
15 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	County of Kaua'i	not named
12 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	County of Kaua'i	not named

Every fire recorded in Kauai County

Mines and quarries near this property

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Grove Farm Company Locomotives: 2 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
Bluestone Quarry and Mill	Stone	Producer
45 Hm Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Kapaia Valley Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Kauai County

Storms near this property

2 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Puhi, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports between 2013 and 2019: 2 heavy rain. 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
June 2019	Heavy Rain	Puhi	-	no account filed
July 2013	Heavy Rain	Puhi	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Kauai 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
Menehune Fishpond	1.8 miles	1973
Grove Farm (Boundary Increase)	1.8 miles	1978
US Post Office-Lihue	1.8 miles	1989
Albert Spencer Wilcox Building	1.9 miles	1979
Grove Farm	1.9 miles	1974
Lihue Civic Center Historic District	1.9 miles	1981

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 79000761 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Kauai County	All 39 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.