Ainahou Ranch

Built in 1941 (American Craftsman). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.

From the record

“The Shipman family leased 6,324 acres (2,559 ha) of land near the volcano in 1937 from the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Estate, which they called the Ainahou Ranch. An older ranch called Keauhou had been established here in 1921, so a primitive trail existed, and the Chain of Craters Road had recently been built within a few miles.”
Wikipedia article Ainahou Ranch, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 107 National Register listings published here for Hawaii County · listed in 1995 · category: Building · built in 1941, American Craftsman, by http://www.wikidata.org/.well-known/genid/927713f7fee80907aa8bfc7b7f68a6b3.

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. Off Chain of Craters Rd., Hawaii Volcanoes NP, Hawaii National Park
When was it listed? February 1995
Category. building
Census division. Kau
When was it built? 1941
Architectural style. American Craftsman
Architect. http://www.wikidata.org/.well-known/genid/927713f7fee80907aa8bfc7b7f68a6b3
National Register reference number. 94001619 - 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

22 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 22 fires within 5 miles of Ainahou Ranch between 1992 and 2010, burning about 7 acres in total. 3 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
Recreation and ceremony	12
Natural	3
Smoking	3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Arson/incendiarism	1
Equipment and vehicle use	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
28 August 1998	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Hawaii Volcanoes National Park	SOLAR
29 July 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Hawaii Volcanoes National Park	PINAO
21 July 2001	Smoking	under an acre	Hawaii Volcanoes National Park	LUA MANU 2
18 July 1994	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Hawaii Volcanoes National Park	BONEHEAD
12 July 2010	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Hawaii Volcanoes National Park	HALAPE
11 July 1994	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Hawaii Volcanoes National Park	BETHS 1ST
3 June 1994	Smoking	under an acre	Hawaii Volcanoes National Park	KEALAKOMO
24 June 1993	Smoking	under an acre	Hawaii Volcanoes National Park	BIRTHDAY

Every fire recorded in Hawaii 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
Hilina Pali Road	1.9 miles	2015
Hilina Pali Road	1.9 miles	2015
Hilina Pali Road	2.2 miles	2015
Hilina Pali Road	2.3 miles	2015
Hilina Pali Road	2.9 miles	2015
Hilina Pali Road	3.1 miles	2015

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 94001619 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Hawaii County	All 107 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.