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Kalihi Wai, Hawaii

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1996. It stands in the Hanalei census division. It lies in ZIP code area 96754. It stands on Kalihi Wai River. The Survey maps it on the Hanalei quadrangle. 361 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 33 feet above sea level.

Kalihi Wai within Kauai County

Population over time

3 figures

Kalihi Wai fell from 717 to 361 between 2000 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
2000717
2010428-289 (-40%)
2020361-67 (-16%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 8 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

41 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 41 fires within 5 miles of Kalihi Wai between 2001 and 2012, burning about 21 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/undetermined41

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
21 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Kaua'inot named
16 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Kaua'inot named
15 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Kaua'inot named
6 August 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Kaua'inot named
29 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Kaua'inot named
13 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Kaua'inot named
10 August 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Kaua'inot named
9 July 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Kaua'inot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Kauai 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 Kalihi Wai: 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Aluminum, Phosphorus-Phosphates, Iron, Silica, Titanium, Water, Free. 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
Northeast Kauai DepositAluminum, Phosphorus-Phosphates, Iron, Silica, Titanium, Water, FreeProspect1949

Every working recorded in Kauai 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
Kīlauea1.2 miles9
Princeville2.6 miles8
Hanalei Homesteads2.7 miles8
Puupehu (historical)2.9 miles8
Hanalei4.0 miles8
Moloaa5.3 miles9
Wainiha6.0 miles7
Halehomaha6.4 miles7

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 Kalihi WaiAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2524501The 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 360149. 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.