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Kaʻaʻawa, Hawaii

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Koolauloa census division. It lies in ZIP code area 96730. It lies near Crouching Lion. The Survey maps it on the Kahana quadrangle. 1,421 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 6 feet above sea level.

Kaʻaʻawa within Honolulu County

On record in Kaʻaʻawa

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

Kaʻaʻawa grew from 1,379 to 1,421 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
20101,379
20201,421+42 (+3%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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

77 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 77 fires within 5 miles of Kaʻaʻawa between 1992 and 2012, burning about 56 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/undetermined77

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
8 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCity and County of Honolulunot named
6 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCity and County of Honolulunot named
3 September 2001Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCity and County of Honolulunot named
25 September 2001Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCity and County of Honolulunot named
24 September 2001Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCity and County of Honolulunot named
20 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCity and County of Honolulunot named
20 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCity and County of Honolulunot named
18 September 2001Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresCity and County of Honolulunot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire 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
Kahana1.3 miles13
Punaluʻu1.7 miles13
Waikāne4.0 miles13
Hauʻula4.8 miles12
Waiāhole4.9 miles13
Kahaluʻu6.7 miles13
Lāʻie7.3 miles13
ʻĀhuimanu7.6 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 KaʻaʻawaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2024964The 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 359551. 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.