Kōloa, Hawaii
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Koloa-Poipu census division. It lies in ZIP code area 96756. It stands on Pōʻeleʻele Stream. The Survey maps it on the Koloa quadrangle. 2,231 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 213 feet above sea level.
On record in Kōloa
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 2 records
Old Sugar Mill of KoloaNational Historic Landmark · listed 1966- Sueoka Marketlisted 2019
Population over time
2 figuresKōloa grew from 2,144 to 2,231 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 | 2,144 | |
| 2020 | 2,231 | +87 (+4%) |
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 Kauai quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS Koloa quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1967 USGS Kauai quadrangle1:250000
- 1970 USGS Kauai quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1978 USGS Koloa quadrangle1:24000
- 1983 USGS Koloa quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
112 since 2001Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 112 fires within 5 miles of Kōloa between 2001 and 2012, burning about 598 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 | 112 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | County of Kaua'i | not named |
| 9 September 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | State of Hawaii | not named |
| 7 September 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | County of Kaua'i | not named |
| 6 September 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | County of Kaua'i | not named |
| 4 September 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | County of Kaua'i | not named |
| 30 September 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | County of Kaua'i | not named |
| 20 September 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 200 acres | County of Kaua'i | not named |
| 16 September 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | County of Kaua'i | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
2 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Kōloa: 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Pumice, Calcium. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kapeku Cinder Pit | Pumice | Past Producer | ||
| Mahaulepu Quarry and Mill | Calcium | Producer |
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.
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 Kōloa | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2475404 | 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 361395. 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.





