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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.

Kēōkea within Maui County

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

Population over time

2 figures

Kēōkea 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.

YearPeople Change
20101,612
20202,199+587 (+36%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 9 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

28 since 2000

Regional 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/undetermined28

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
7 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Mauinot named
9 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined9.0 acresCounty of Mauinot named
6 August 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Mauinot named
27 August 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined300 acresState of Hawaiinot named
13 August 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Mauinot named
3 July 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Mauinot named
17 July 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Mauinot named
13 July 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresCounty of Mauinot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Maui 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 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Maui Bauxite DepositTitanium, Metal, AluminumOccurrenceBauxite, Ilmenite

Every working recorded in Maui 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
Kaʻonoʻulu (historical)2.3 miles8
Maui Meadows3.9 miles9
Waiakoa3.9 miles9
ʻUlupalakua4.7 miles9
Wailea4.8 miles9
Keawakapu (historical)4.9 miles9
Pūlehu5.0 miles9
Mākena5.9 miles9

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 KēōkeaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6393021The 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.