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Photograph of Kahikolu Church
Photograph by W Nowicki, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Kahikolu Church

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.

From the record

“Kahikolu Church is one of only two stone churches from the 19th century on the island of Hawaii. It was built from 1852 to 1855 on the site of an earlier building known as Kealakekua Church that was built around 1833 in the Kona district.”

Wikipedia article Kahikolu Church, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 107 National Register listings published here for Hawaii County · listed in 1982 · 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. SE of Napoopoo, Napoopoo, 96704
  • When was it listed? November 1982
  • Category. building
  • Census division. South Kona
  • Architect. John Davis Paris
  • National Register reference number. 82000148 - 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

27 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 27 fires within 5 miles of Kahikolu Church 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/undetermined27

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 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Hawai'inot named
3 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresCounty of Hawai'inot named
11 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Hawai'inot named
2 July 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Hawai'inot named
18 July 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Hawai'inot named
23 April 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Hawai'inot named
6 March 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Hawai'inot named
27 March 2010Missing 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

5 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
St. Benedict's Catholic Church1.6 miles1979
Daifukuji Soto Zen Mission1.8 miles1994
Kealakekua Bay Historical District2.1 miles1973
Uchida Coffee Farm2.7 miles1995
Greenwell Store4.1 miles1978

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 82000148 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.