Photograph of Wheeler Army Airfield — Photograph by Photographer's Mate 2nd Class Rebecca J. Moat, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Wheeler Field

A National Historic Landmark. Built in 1946. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.

From the record

“Wheeler Army Airfield, also known as Wheeler Field and formerly as Wheeler Air Force Base, is a United States Army post located in the City & County of Honolulu and in the Wahiawa District of the Island of O'ahu, Hawaii. It is a National Historic Landmark for its role in the 7 December 1941 Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.”
Wikipedia article Wheeler Army Airfield, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 154 National Register listings published here for Honolulu County · listed in 1987 · category: District · built in 1946 · a National Historic Landmark.

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

The listing

Address. Area around Wright Ave. and the flight line, Schofield Barracks, 96786
When was it listed? May 1987
Category. district
Census division. Wahiawa
When was it built? 1946
National Register reference number. 87001297 - 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

547 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 547 fires within 5 miles of Wheeler Field between 1992 and 2019, burning about 4,925 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	546
Arson/incendiarism	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
9 September 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	20 acres	City and County of Honolulu	not named
9 September 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	City and County of Honolulu	not named
9 September 2001	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	City and County of Honolulu	not named
8 September 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	City and County of Honolulu	not named
8 September 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	City and County of Honolulu	not named
7 September 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	City and County of Honolulu	not named
7 September 2001	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	City and County of Honolulu	not named
6 September 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7.0 acres	City and County of Honolulu	not named

Every fire 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Schofield Barracks Stockade	0.7 miles	1998
Schofield Barracks Historic District	1.3 miles	1998
Kukaniloko Birth Site	1.6 miles	1973
Kukaniloko Birth Site (Boundary Increase)	1.7 miles	1995
James D. Dole Homestead	2.9 miles	1978
Wakamiya Inari Shrine	6.7 miles	1980

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 87001297 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Honolulu County	All 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.