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ʻEwa Beach, Hawaii

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1999. It stands in the Ewa census division. It lies in ZIP code area 96706. The Survey maps it on the Pearl Harbor quadrangle. 16,415 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 10 feet above sea level.

ʻEwa Beach within Honolulu County

Population over time

2 figures

ʻEwa Beach grew from 14,955 to 16,415 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
201014,955
202016,415+1,460 (+10%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 15 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

975 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 975 fires within 5 miles of ʻEwa Beach between 1998 and 2013, burning about 1,098 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/undetermined975

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 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCity and County of Honolulunot named
9 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCity and County of Honolulunot named
9 September 2001Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCity and County of Honolulunot named
8 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCity and County of Honolulunot named
8 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCity and County of Honolulunot named
8 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCity and County of Honolulunot named
8 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCity and County of Honolulunot named
8 September 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresCity and County of Honolulunot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Honolulu County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of ʻEwa Beach: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Calcium. 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
Ewa PitCalciumPast Producer

Every working recorded in Honolulu County

Storms near this place

8 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names ʻEwa Beach in 8 storm reports between 1996 and 2019: 2 heavy rain, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 flood, 1 funnel cloud. 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 1996Thunderstorm WindEwa Beach$10,000no account filed
March 2018Flash FloodEwa Beach-Flooding occurred in at least two homes on the south side of Fort Weaver Road between Parish Drive and Hapalua Street. A drainage canal had become clogged with debris, causing water to spill out of the canal into the homes.
April 2015Tornado (EF0)Ewa Beach-A weak tornado formed in leeward Oahu and dissipated without incident.
November 2019Heavy RainEwa Beach-no account filed
April 2003LightningEwa Beach-no account filed
October 2002Heavy RainEwa Beach-no account filed
May 2002Funnel CloudEwa Beach-no account filed
November 1997FloodEwa Beach-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Honolulu 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
Iroquois Point1.6 miles15
ʻEwa Gentry2.3 miles14
Varona Village2.4 miles14
Renton Village2.4 miles14
ʻEwa2.4 miles14
ʻEwa Villages2.5 miles14
Tenney Village2.5 miles14
Watertown (historical)2.5 miles15

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 ʻEwa BeachAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2138861The 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 358767. 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.

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.