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ʻEleʻele, Hawaii

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1996. It stands in the Eleele-Kalaheo census division. It lies in ZIP code area 96705. It stands on Hanapēpē River. The Survey maps it on the Hanapepe quadrangle. 2,515 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 23 feet above sea level.

ʻEleʻele within Kauai County

On record in ʻEleʻele

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Population over time

2 figures

ʻEleʻele grew from 2,390 to 2,515 between 2010 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
20102,390
20202,515+125 (+5%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 10 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

117 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 117 fires within 5 miles of ʻEleʻele between 2005 and 2012, burning about 286 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/undetermined117

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
9 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresCounty of Kaua'inot named
7 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresCounty of Kaua'inot named
5 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresState of Hawaiinot named
27 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresCounty of Kaua'inot named
27 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Kaua'inot named
25 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Kaua'inot named
16 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Kaua'inot named
11 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresState of Hawaiinot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Kauai County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of ʻEleʻele: 3 past producers, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Pumice, Salt, Stone. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Chang MillStonePast Producer
Unnamed SaltSaltUnknown
Cinder PitPumicePast Producer
Kapeku Cinder PitPumicePast Producer

Every working 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
Port Allen0.3 miles10
Hanapēpē0.6 miles10
Hanapēpē Heights0.7 miles10
Numila1.5 miles10
Kaumakani2.0 miles10
Kapaka (historical)2.1 miles10
Olokele2.4 miles10
Kalāheo3.2 miles9

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 ʻEleʻeleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2588367The 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 358794. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.