Gazetteer
Housing Units (2000): 3733
Land area (2000): 2.747396 sq. miles (7.115723 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000686 sq. miles (0.001776 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 2.748082 sq. miles (7.117499 sq. km)
FIPS code: 69050
Located within: Hawaii (HI), FIPS 15
Location: 21.497650 N, 158.063248 W
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Schofield Barracks
Wikipedia
Schofield Barracks is a United States Army installation and census-designated place (CDP) located in the City and County of Honolulu and in the Wahiawa District of the American island of Oahu, Hawaii. Schofield Barracks lies adjacent to the town of Wahiawā, separated from most of it by Lake Wilson (also known as Wahiawā Reservoir). Schofield Barracks is named after Lieutenant General John McAllister Schofield, Commanding General United States Army August 1888 to September 1895. He had been sent to Hawaii in 1872 and had recommended the establishment of a naval base at Pearl Harbor.
Schofield Barracks has an area of on Central Oahu. The post was established in 1908 to provide mobile defense of Pearl Harbor and the entire island. It has been the home of the 25th Infantry Division, known as the Tropic Lightning Division, since 1941 as well as the Command Headquarters for United States Army Hawaii (USARHAW). The population was 16,370 at the 2010 census.
Usage examples of "schofield barracks".
After the Schofield Barracks Military Reservation disappeared behind the rearview mirror, Pitt took the turnoff below Wahiawa and headed at high speed toward Pearl City, completely ignoring the threat of a wandering state highway patrolman.
Most of the fires down around Schofield Barracks seemed to be out.
Kamejiro said through his interpreter, Goro, who had a weekend pass from Schofield Barracks.
This latter contingent included the 3rd Marine Division based on Okinawa, and the Army's 25th Light Infantry Division at Schofield Barracks on Oahu.
The Army's 251st Infantry Division (Light) was still based at Schofield Barracks a few miles away, but there were no ships to put them on, either.