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Fern Forest, Hawaii

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1922 and the latest in 1997. It stands in the Keaau-Mountain View census division. It lies in ZIP code area 96785. The Survey maps it on the Volcano quadrangle. 1,150 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 2,264 feet above sea level.

Fern Forest within Hawaii County

Population over time

2 figures

Fern Forest grew from 931 to 1,150 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
2010931
20201,150+219 (+24%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 14 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

10 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Fern Forest between 1992 and 2011, burning about 420 acres in total. 1 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/undetermined8
Debris and open burning1
Natural1

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
8 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresCounty of Hawai'inot named
5 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresCounty of Hawai'inot named
30 June 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Hawai'inot named
12 May 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresCounty of Hawai'inot named
3 April 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Hawai'inot named
5 February 1998Missing data/not specified/undetermined400 acresState of Hawaiinot named
11 February 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresCounty of Hawai'inot named
9 December 2007Naturalunder an acreHawaii Volcanoes National ParkPAA ALII

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hawaii 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
Glenwood1.8 miles14
Eden Roc2.2 miles15
Royal Hawaiian Estates3.2 miles14
Fern Acres4.1 miles13
Lehua (historical)4.6 miles13
Mauna Loa Estates5.4 miles14
Mountain View6.1 miles13
Volcano6.2 miles14

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 Fern ForestAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2660689The 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 1852578. 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.