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Ket Hing Society Building

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.

From the record

“At their peak, there were six Chinese Society Halls on Maui. Operated by the Gee Kung Tong Society, these halls were created to provide services to immigrant Chinese workers, mostly working for the sugarcane plantations.”

Wikipedia article Chinese Society Halls on Maui, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 41 National Register listings published here for Maui 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 3 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. Cross Rd., Keokea, 96790
  • When was it listed? November 1982
  • Category. building
  • Also known as. Chinese Tong Houses of Maui Island TR
  • Census division. Kula
  • National Register reference number. 82000172 - 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 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 27 fires within 5 miles of Ket Hing Society Building between 2000 and 2016, burning about 2,320 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
7 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Mauinot named
9 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined9.0 acresCounty of Mauinot named
6 August 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Mauinot named
13 August 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Mauinot named
3 July 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Mauinot named
17 July 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Mauinot named
13 July 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresCounty of Mauinot named
12 July 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined8.0 acresState of Hawaiinot named

Every fire recorded in Maui 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 Ket Hing Society Building: 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Titanium, Metal, Aluminum. 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
Maui Bauxite DepositTitanium, Metal, AluminumOccurrenceBauxite, Ilmenite

Every working recorded in Maui 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

1 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
Holy Ghost Catholic Church4.1 miles1983

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 82000172 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Maui CountyAll 41 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.