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Honolulu, Hawaii

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1998. It stands in the Honolulu census division. It lies in ZIP code area 96813. It stands on Pauoa Stream. The Survey maps it on the Honolulu quadrangle. 350,964 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 39 feet above sea level.

Honolulu within Honolulu County

On record in Honolulu

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 113 shown

Every listing in Honolulu County

Population over time

9 figures

Honolulu grew from 22,907 to 350,964 between 1890 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
189022,907
190039,306+16,399 (+72%)
192083,327+44,021 (+112%)
1930137,582+54,255 (+65%)
1950248,034+110,452 (+80%)
1970324,871+76,837 (+31%)
1990365,272+40,401 (+12%)
2010390,738+25,466 (+7%)
2020350,964-39,774 (-10%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 13 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

756 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 756 fires within 5 miles of Honolulu between 1992 and 2017, burning about 910 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/undetermined756

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 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCity and County of Honolulunot named
9 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCity and County of Honolulunot named
9 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCity and County of Honolulunot named
9 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCity and County of Honolulunot named
9 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCity and County of Honolulunot named
9 September 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCity and County of Honolulunot named
8 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined30 acresCity and County of Honolulunot named
8 September 2005Missing 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

Storms near this place

26 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Honolulu in 26 storm reports between 1996 and 2023: 7 flood, 7 flash flood, 4 heavy rain, 2 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 WindHonolulu$2,000no account filed
April 2023FloodHonolulu-Oahu emergency management reported the School Street onramp to H1 Freeway was|closed due to water over the roadway.
June 2019Flash FloodHonolulu-Heavy runoff from showers and thunderstorms caused deep ponding on the H-1 freeway near the Liliha Street overpass. Deep ponding of precipitation also occurred along Nimitz Highway near Fort and River streets, on Ahua Street in the Mapunapuna area, and H-1 freeway westbound near the Pali Highway off-ramp.
September 2018Flash FloodHonolulu-Kalihi Stream overflowed onto Dillingham Boulevard in Honolulu on Oahu, closing the roadway.
July 2016Flash FloodHonolulu-H-1 Westbound at Liliha Street on Oahu closed due to flooding waters and stalled vehicles. Precipitation was associated with Tropical Storm Darby.
September 2015Flash FloodHonolulu-One foot of water flooded the intersection of Liliha, Dillingham, and North King Street in Honolulu on the island of Oahu. More flash flooding was reported at the intersection of Dillingham and Alakawa, and Liliha Street was closed in both directions from King to Vineyard Boulevard because of excessive ponding on the roadway. In the Iwilei section of Honolulu, Dole Cannery and surrounding offices had to be evacuated due to flooding on the first floor, including rooms with electrical equipment.
December 2011Flash FloodHonolulu-Heavy rain caused a debris flow at the westbound H-1 Freeway off ramp to School Street. This closed the roadway for a time while highway crews cleared the debris.
December 1996FloodHonolulu-Scattered areas of minor street flooding reported across Oahu.
November 2011Heavy RainHonolulu-no account filed
November 2007Heavy RainHonolulu-no account filed
November 2007Heavy RainHonolulu-no account filed
January 2005Heavy RainHonolulu-no account filed
June 2005Funnel CloudHonolulu-no account filed
February 2004Flash FloodHonolulu-no account filed
October 2002WildfireHonolulu-no account filed
September 2002WildfireHonolulu-no account filed
June 2001Flash FloodHonolulu-no account filed
October 2001FloodHonolulu-no account filed
January 1999FloodHonolulu-no account filed
December 1998WaterspoutHonolulu-no account filed
January 1998FloodHonolulu-no account filed
August 1997FloodHonolulu-no account filed
April 1997WaterspoutHonolulu-no account filed
March 1997FloodHonolulu-no account filed
March 1996Funnel CloudHonolulu-no account filed
March 1996Thunderstorm WindHonolulu-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
Chinatown0.4 miles13
Mayor Wright Homes1.0 miles13
Iwilei1.0 miles13
Pacific Heights1.3 miles13
Kalakaua Homes1.4 miles13
Makiki Heights1.4 miles13
Punahou1.4 miles13
Kaʻahumanu Homes1.6 miles13

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 HonoluluAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q18094The 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 366212. 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.