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Photograph of Makawao Union Church
Photograph by Joel Bradshaw, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Makawao Union Church

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.

From the record

“Makawao Union Church is a church near Makawao on the Hawaiian island of Maui. It was founded by New England missionary Jonathan Smith Green during the Kingdom of Hawaii.”

Wikipedia article Makawao Union Church, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 41 National Register listings published here for Maui County · listed in 1985 · 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. Baldwin Ave., Paia, 96768
  • When was it listed? December 1985
  • Category. building
  • Census division. Makawao-Paia
  • Architect. Charles William Dickey
  • National Register reference number. 85003227 - 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

183 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 183 fires within 5 miles of Makawao Union Church between 2003 and 2020, burning about 4,508 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/undetermined182
Recreation and ceremony1

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
8 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresCounty of Mauinot named
7 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresCounty of Mauinot named
4 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Mauinot named
4 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresCounty of Mauinot named
3 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresCounty of Mauinot named
28 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresCounty of Mauinot named
27 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Mauinot named
21 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Mauinot named

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

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
Paia School0.5 miles2000
Fred C. Baldwin Memorial Home0.7 miles2011
Haiku Mill2.8 miles1986
Hardy House3.6 miles1984
Frank and Theresa Gomes House4.0 miles2001
Bank of Hawaii-Haiku Branch6.4 miles2000

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 85003227 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.