Photograph of Moloka'i Light — Photograph by Boucher, Jack E, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

U.S. Coast Guard Molokai Light

Built in 1909. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.

From the record

“Coast Guard Molokai Light, is a lighthouse in Kalawao County, Hawaii, on the island of Molokai. It was built in 1909 and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.”
Wikipedia article Light, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 41 National Register listings published here for Maui County · listed in 1982 · category: Structure · built in 1909.

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 structure as contributing to the listing.
Address. N of Kalaupapa, Kalaupapa, 96742
When was it listed? March 1982
Category. structure
When was it built? 1909
National Register reference number. 82001724 - 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

5 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of U.S. Coast Guard Molokai Light between 1998 and 2016, burning about 3 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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
Debris and open burning	2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1
Arson/incendiarism	1
Other causes	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
6 September 2016	Other causes	under an acre	Kalaupapa National Historical Park	STATE KITCHEN
29 September 1998	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Kalaupapa National Historical Park	BAND AID
14 June 1998	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Kalaupapa National Historical Park	MOVIE SET
22 December 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	County of Maui	not named
5 November 2014	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Kalaupapa National Historical Park	BEACH

Every fire 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	Property	Distance	Listed
	R. W. Meyer Sugar Mill	4.2 miles	1979

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 82001724 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Maui County	All 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.