Kēōkea, Hawaii
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the Kula census division. It lies in ZIP code area 96790. It lies near Waiohuli. The Survey maps it on the Makena quadrangle. 2,199 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 2,860 feet above sea level.
On record in Kēōkea
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 1 record
- Ket Hing Society Buildinglisted 1982
Population over time
2 figuresKēōkea grew from 1,612 to 2,199 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 1,612 | |
| 2020 | 2,199 | +587 (+36%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 9 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1954 USGS Makena quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1954 USGS Maui quadrangle1:250000
- 1966 USGS Maui quadrangle1:250000
- 1974 USGS Maui quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1983 USGS Makena quadrangle1:24000
- 1995 USGS Makena quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
28 since 2000Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 28 fires within 5 miles of Kēōkea between 2000 and 2016, burning about 2,620 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/undetermined | 28 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | County of Maui | not named |
| 9 August 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 9.0 acres | County of Maui | not named |
| 6 August 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | County of Maui | not named |
| 27 August 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 300 acres | State of Hawaii | not named |
| 13 August 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | County of Maui | not named |
| 3 July 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | County of Maui | not named |
| 17 July 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | County of Maui | not named |
| 13 July 2004 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | County of Maui | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Kēōkea: 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Titanium, Metal, Aluminum. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Maui Bauxite Deposit | Titanium, Metal, Aluminum | Occurrence | Bauxite, Ilmenite |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kaʻonoʻulu (historical) | 2.3 miles | 8 | |
| Maui Meadows | 3.9 miles | 9 | |
| Waiakoa | 3.9 miles | 9 | |
| ʻUlupalakua | 4.7 miles | 9 | |
| Wailea | 4.8 miles | 9 | |
| Keawakapu (historical) | 4.9 miles | 9 | |
| Pūlehu | 5.0 miles | 9 | |
| Mākena | 5.9 miles | 9 |
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 Kēōkea | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q6393021 | The 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 361113. 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.





