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Anahola, Hawaii

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1996. It stands in the Wailua-Anahola census division. It lies in ZIP code area 96703. It lies near Puu Alanakau. The Survey maps it on the Anahola quadrangle. 2,243 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 30 feet above sea level.

Anahola within Kauai County

Population over time

3 figures

Anahola grew from 1,932 to 2,243 between 2000 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
20001,932
20102,223+291 (+15%)
20202,243+20 (+1%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 9 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

Fires near this place

200 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 200 fires within 5 miles of Anahola between 2001 and 2012, burning about 1,645 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/undetermined200

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
5 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Kaua'inot named
30 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Kaua'inot named
30 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Kaua'inot named
27 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Kaua'inot named
27 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Kaua'inot named
27 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Kaua'inot named
24 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Kaua'inot named
20 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Kaua'inot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Kauai County

Storms near this place

44 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Anahola in 44 storm reports between 1997 and 2022: 30 heavy rain, 5 flood, 5 flash flood, 2 wildfire. 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 2002Tornado (F0)Anahola$60,000no account filed
August 2019Flash FloodAnahola-Flooding prevented access to several homes in Anahola on the Garden Isle of Kauai. More problems occurred just north of Kapaa as water began overflowing Keapana Bridge.
March 2013Flash FloodAnahola-Emergency managers reported that Hauaala Road in Keapana was closed due to flooding.
March 2012Flash FloodAnahola-Flooding waters closed Kuhio Highway near mile marker 13 on the island of Kauai.
December 2008Flash FloodAnahola-A home in Kapaa was flooded by heavy showers.
January 2007Heavy RainAnahola-Heavy showers caused ponding on roadways, and small stream and drainage ditch flooding in the northwest part of Kauai. There were no reports of serious property damage or injuries.|
May 2004Heavy RainAnahola-Heavy showers brought ponding of roadways, and small stream and drainage ditch flooding to coastal sections of eastern Kauai. There were no reports of property damage or serious injuries.
February 1997FloodAnahola-Heavy showers produced minor flooding of roads and low-lying areas from Kilauea to Anahola to Wailua.
January 2022Heavy RainAnahola-no account filed
March 2021Heavy RainAnahola-no account filed
April 2020Heavy RainAnahola-no account filed
October 2020Heavy RainAnahola-no account filed
August 2019Heavy RainAnahola-no account filed
September 2019Heavy RainAnahola-no account filed
February 2018Heavy RainAnahola-no account filed
March 2017Heavy RainAnahola-no account filed
May 2017Heavy RainAnahola-no account filed
February 2017Heavy RainAnahola-no account filed
February 2016Heavy RainAnahola-no account filed
September 2014Heavy RainAnahola-no account filed
November 2014Heavy RainAnahola-no account filed
February 2014Heavy RainAnahola-no account filed
October 2014Heavy RainAnahola-no account filed
July 2014Heavy RainAnahola-no account filed
March 2014Heavy RainAnahola-no account filed
October 2013Heavy RainAnahola-no account filed
May 2011Heavy RainAnahola-no account filed
January 2009Heavy RainAnahola-no account filed
March 2007Heavy RainAnahola-no account filed
March 2006Flash FloodAnahola-no account filed
February 2006Heavy RainAnahola-no account filed
January 2005Heavy RainAnahola-no account filed
July 2003WildfireAnahola-no account filed
March 2003Heavy RainAnahola-no account filed
April 2003Heavy RainAnahola-no account filed
April 2003LightningAnahola-no account filed
May 2002Heavy RainAnahola-no account filed
March 2002Heavy RainAnahola-no account filed
March 2002Heavy RainAnahola-no account filed
January 2001FloodAnahola-no account filed
November 2001WildfireAnahola-no account filed
September 2000FloodAnahola-no account filed
October 1999FloodAnahola-no account filed
March 1997FloodAnahola-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Kauai County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Kumukumu2.8 miles10
Keālia3.1 miles10
Kawaihau3.3 miles10
Moloaa3.6 miles9
Kapaʻa3.7 miles10
Kapahi3.9 miles10
Olohena5.6 miles10
Waipouli5.7 miles10

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on AnaholaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2588377The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 358587. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.