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Photograph of Wakamiya Inari Shrine
Photograph by Joel Bradshaw, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Wakamiya Inari Shrine

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.

From the record

“Wakamiya Inari Shrine at Waipahu Cultural Garden in Waipahu, is the last surviving example of Inari Shrine architecture on Unlike most Shinto shrines, which are unpainted, those dedicated to the fox deity Inari, the god of the harvest, are painted bright red.”

Wikipedia article Wakamiya Inari Shrine, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 154 National Register listings published here for Honolulu County · listed in 1980 · 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. Waipahu Cultural Garden, Waipahu, 96797
  • When was it listed? January 1980
  • Category. building
  • Census division. Ewa
  • National Register reference number. 80001285 - 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

1,293 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1,293 fires within 5 miles of Wakamiya Inari Shrine between 1992 and 2018, burning about 4,366 acres in total. 1 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/undetermined1292
Natural1

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
9 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCity and County of Honolulunot named
9 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresCity and County of Honolulunot named
9 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresCity and County of Honolulunot named
9 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCity and County of Honolulunot named
9 September 2001Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCity and County of Honolulunot named
8 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCity and County of Honolulunot named
8 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCity and County of Honolulunot named
8 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCity and County of Honolulunot named

Every fire recorded in Honolulu 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 Wakamiya Inari Shrine: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Calcium. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Ewa PitCalciumPast Producer

Every working recorded in Honolulu County

Storms near this property

5 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Waipahu, the town this property stands in, in 5 storm reports between 2004 and 2022: 2 heavy rain, 1 tornado, 1 funnel cloud, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
December 2022Thunderstorm WindWaipahu-A trained spotter reported shingles blown off roof with sustained winds over 35 kts.
December 2010Heavy RainWaipahu-no account filed
April 2006Funnel CloudWaipahu-no account filed
October 2006Heavy RainWaipahu-no account filed
January 2004Tornado (F0)Waipahu-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Honolulu 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 80001285 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Honolulu CountyAll 154 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.