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Honomu, Hawaii

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1915 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Papaikou-Wailea census division. It lies in ZIP code area 96728. It stands on Honomū Stream. The Survey maps it on the Papaikou quadrangle. 452 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 300 feet above sea level.

Honomu within Hawaii County

Population over time

2 figures

Honomu fell from 509 to 452 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
2010509
2020452-57 (-11%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 11 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

19 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 19 fires within 5 miles of Honomu between 2004 and 2011, burning about 7 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/undetermined19

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
5 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Hawai'inot named
13 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Hawai'inot named
9 August 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Hawai'inot named
21 August 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Hawai'inot named
19 August 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Hawai'inot named
5 July 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Hawai'inot named
5 July 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Hawai'inot named
4 July 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Hawai'inot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hawaii 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 Honomu: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Hcpc Quarries and MillStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Hawaii County

Storms near this place

4 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Honomu in 4 storm reports between 2002 and 2006: 3 heavy rain, 1 flash flood. 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
November 2006Heavy RainHonomu-Heavy showers in the South Hilo District on the Big Island of Hawaii caused ponding of roadways, and small stream and drainage ditch flooding. No significant property damage or injuries were reported.|
August 2005Heavy RainHonomu-no account filed
September 2005Heavy RainHonomu-no account filed
March 2002Flash FloodHonomu-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
Wailea1.2 miles11
Hakalau2.0 miles13
Pepeʻekeo Mill2.2 miles11
Pepeʻekeo2.6 miles11
Kawainui3.2 miles11
Onomea (historical)4.0 miles11
Honohina (historical)4.4 miles13
Nīnole5.4 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 HonomuAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2660935The 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 359354. 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.