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Hawaiian Beaches, Hawaii

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1924 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the Pahoa-Kalapana census division. It lies in ZIP code area 96778. The Survey maps it on the Pahoa North quadrangle. 3,976 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 256 feet above sea level.

Hawaiian Beaches within Hawaii County

Population over time

2 figures

Hawaiian Beaches fell from 4,280 to 3,976 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
20104,280
20203,976-304 (-7%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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

64 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 64 fires within 5 miles of Hawaiian Beaches between 1998 and 2011, burning about 2,425 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/undetermined64

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
4 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Hawai'inot named
30 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresCounty of Hawai'inot named
3 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Hawai'inot named
28 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Hawai'inot named
26 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresCounty of Hawai'inot named
22 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Hawai'inot named
17 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Hawai'inot named
11 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresCounty of Hawai'inot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hawaii County

Storms near this place

4 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hawaiian Beaches in 4 storm reports between 2010 and 2013: 3 heavy rain, 1 hail. 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
December 2013HailHawaiian Beaches-A member of the public reported 3/4 inch hail in Hawaiian Beaches.
January 2012Heavy RainHawaiian Beaches-no account filed
January 2012Heavy RainHawaiian Beaches-no account filed
December 2010Heavy RainHawaiian Beaches-no account filed

Every storm 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
Hawaiʻi Beaches Estates1.3 miles14
Waiakahiula (historical)1.8 miles14
Honolulu Landing (historical)2.1 miles14
Nānāwale Estates2.6 miles14
Pāhoa3.7 miles14
Kaniahiku Village4.0 miles14
Koaʻe (historical)4.1 miles13
ʻĀinaloa4.2 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 Hawaiian BeachesAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2575421The 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 1867252. 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.