Hilo, Hawaii

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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 12 of 25 shown

• District Courthouse and Police Stationlisted 1979
• Thomas Guard Houselisted 2003
• S. Hata Buildinglisted 1991
• W.H. Hill Houselisted 2011
• Hilo Masonic Lodge Hall-Bishop Trust Buildinglisted 1994
• Kamehameha Halllisted 1993
• Kilauea Craterlisted 1974
• Levi and Netti Lyman Houselisted 2011
• Rev. D. B. Lyman Houselisted 1978
• Mauna Loa Roadlisted 2015
• Edward H. and Claire Moses Houselisted 2011
• Old Volcano House No. 42listed 1974

Every listing in Hawaii County

Hilo grew from 40,759 to 44,186 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.

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.

• 1917 USGS Hilo quadrangle1:62500
• 1932 USGS Hilo quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1954 USGS Hawaii North quadrangle1:250000
• 1959 USGS Hawaii North quadrangle1:250000
• 1961 USGS Hawaii North quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1963 USGS Hilo quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1975 USGS Hawaii quadrangle1:250000
• 1977 USGS Hilo quadrangle1:24000
• 1980 USGS Hawaii County Sheet 2 quadrangle1:100000
• 1981 USGS Hilo quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1995 USGS Hilo quadrangle1:24000

1 chapter about Hilo from the published histories of the county, public domain and reproduced complete.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 93 fires within 5 miles of Hilo between 1999 and 2012, burning about 83 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Kaūmana
• Puʻuʻeo
• Waiākea
• Makaokū
• Piʻihonua
• Wainaku

Every fire recorded in Hawaii County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Hilo: 3 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Hawaii County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hilo in 68 storm reports between 1996 and 2026: 28 heavy rain, 16 flood, 14 flash flood, 3 waterspout. The reports record 1 death. 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.

Every storm recorded in Hawaii County

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

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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 359187. 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.