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Kahului, Hawaii

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1997. It stands in the Kahului census division. It lies in ZIP code area 96732. It lies near Sand Hills. The Survey maps it on the Wailuku quadrangle. 28,219 people lived here at the 2020 count.

Kahului within Maui County

On record in Kahului

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

Kahului grew from 26,337 to 28,219 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
201026,337
202028,219+1,882 (+7%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 10 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

236 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 236 fires within 5 miles of Kahului between 2004 and 2019, burning about 17,084 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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/undetermined235
Arson/incendiarism1

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 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresCounty of Mauinot named
5 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Mauinot named
4 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Mauinot named
4 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Mauinot named
3 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresCounty of Mauinot named
29 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Mauinot named
28 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Mauinot named
23 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Mauinot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Maui County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Kahului: 2 producers, 2 past producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Hcs Lime Pit and MillCalciumPast Producer
Maui Block MillStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Happy Valley Pit and MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Waikapu Pit and MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Maui County

Storms near this place

9 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Kahului in 9 storm reports between 1997 and 2026: 3 wildfire, 3 flash flood, 2 heavy rain, 1 funnel cloud. 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
March 2026Flash FloodKahului-Hanakai Street was completely closed between Hana Highway and Alamaha St due to flooding.
December 2021Flash FloodKahului-Flooding was reported at the Krispy Kreme in Kahului. More flooding occurred in the Wakea Business Center in Kahului, and around the Puunene Bridge. A little later, about 2100 HST, multiple homes were flooded in Maui Meadows, and a few vehicles were washed away.
December 2006Flash FloodKahului-Heavy showers in northern parts of Maui's Central Valley and over the northwest-facing slopes of Haleakala in East Maui generated flooding conditions in Baldwin Beach Park and a landslide on Haleakala Highway. The debris on the highway forced county officials to close the roadway between Haliimaile Road and Hana Highway for a few hours in the afternoon. However, there were no reports of serious property damage or injuries.|
March 1997Funnel CloudKahului-Two stationary funnel clouds reported by NWS observer at WSO Kahului.
January 2005Heavy RainKahului-no account filed
September 2003WildfireKahului-no account filed
August 2003WildfireKahului-no account filed
September 2002WildfireKahului-no account filed
January 2002Heavy RainKahului-no account filed

Every storm 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
McGerrow Village (historical)1.4 miles10
Puʻunēnē1.5 miles9
Wailuku1.5 miles10
Sam Sing Village (historical)1.6 miles9
Yung Hee Village (historical)1.7 miles9
Paukūkalo1.7 miles10
Village Five (historical)1.8 miles9
Alabama Village (historical)1.8 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 KahuluiAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1012975The 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 359843. 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.