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Photograph of Fort Ruger
Photograph by Severin & Bolster, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Fort Ruger Historic District

Built in 1906. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.

From the record

“Fort Ruger is a fort on the island of that served as the first military reservation in the Territory of Hawaii. Ruger and built in and around Diamond Head Crater, the fort was established by the United States for the purpose of defending the harbor of its newly annexed territory.”

Wikipedia article Fort Ruger, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 154 National Register listings published here for Honolulu County · listed in 1983 · category: District · built in 1906.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

  • Address. Diamond Head Rd., Honolulu, 96816
  • When was it listed? July 1983
  • Category. district
  • Census division. Honolulu
  • When was it built? 1906
  • National Register reference number. 83000249 - 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

462 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 462 fires within 5 miles of Fort Ruger Historic District between 1992 and 2017, burning about 638 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/undetermined462

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 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCity and County of Honolulunot named
9 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCity and County of Honolulunot named
9 September 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCity and County of Honolulunot named
8 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresCity and County of Honolulunot named
8 September 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCity and County of Honolulunot named
8 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresCity and County of Honolulunot named
7 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCity and County of Honolulunot named
7 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.0 acresCity and County of Honolulunot named

Every fire recorded in Honolulu County

Storms near this property

26 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Honolulu, the town this property stands in, in 26 storm reports between 1996 and 2023: 7 flood, 7 flash flood, 4 heavy rain, 2 funnel cloud. 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
March 1996Thunderstorm WindHonolulu$2,000no account filed
April 2023FloodHonolulu-Oahu emergency management reported the School Street onramp to H1 Freeway was|closed due to water over the roadway.
June 2019Flash FloodHonolulu-Heavy runoff from showers and thunderstorms caused deep ponding on the H-1 freeway near the Liliha Street overpass. Deep ponding of precipitation also occurred along Nimitz Highway near Fort and River streets, on Ahua Street in the Mapunapuna area, and H-1 freeway westbound near the Pali Highway off-ramp.
September 2018Flash FloodHonolulu-Kalihi Stream overflowed onto Dillingham Boulevard in Honolulu on Oahu, closing the roadway.
July 2016Flash FloodHonolulu-H-1 Westbound at Liliha Street on Oahu closed due to flooding waters and stalled vehicles. Precipitation was associated with Tropical Storm Darby.
September 2015Flash FloodHonolulu-One foot of water flooded the intersection of Liliha, Dillingham, and North King Street in Honolulu on the island of Oahu. More flash flooding was reported at the intersection of Dillingham and Alakawa, and Liliha Street was closed in both directions from King to Vineyard Boulevard because of excessive ponding on the roadway. In the Iwilei section of Honolulu, Dole Cannery and surrounding offices had to be evacuated due to flooding on the first floor, including rooms with electrical equipment.
December 2011Flash FloodHonolulu-Heavy rain caused a debris flow at the westbound H-1 Freeway off ramp to School Street. This closed the roadway for a time while highway crews cleared the debris.
December 1996FloodHonolulu-Scattered areas of minor street flooding reported across Oahu.
November 2011Heavy RainHonolulu-no account filed
November 2007Heavy RainHonolulu-no account filed
November 2007Heavy RainHonolulu-no account filed
January 2005Heavy RainHonolulu-no account filed
June 2005Funnel CloudHonolulu-no account filed
February 2004Flash FloodHonolulu-no account filed
October 2002WildfireHonolulu-no account filed
September 2002WildfireHonolulu-no account filed
June 2001Flash FloodHonolulu-no account filed
October 2001FloodHonolulu-no account filed
January 1999FloodHonolulu-no account filed
December 1998WaterspoutHonolulu-no account filed
January 1998FloodHonolulu-no account filed
August 1997FloodHonolulu-no account filed
April 1997WaterspoutHonolulu-no account filed
March 1997FloodHonolulu-no account filed
March 1996Funnel CloudHonolulu-no account filed
March 1996Thunderstorm WindHonolulu-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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
House at 4109 Black Point Road0.4 miles1987
Mr. & Mrs. David Jr. Barry House0.5 miles2017
U.S. Coast Guard Diamond Head Lighthouse0.7 miles1980
Joseph and Joan Farrell Residence0.7 miles2025
Frank Tavares House0.8 miles1987
House at 3023 Kalakaua Avenue0.9 miles1987

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 83000249 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.
  • 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.