Kapaʻa, Hawaii
10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1996. It stands in the Kapaa census division. It lies in ZIP code area 96746. It stands on Kapaʻa Stream. The Survey maps it on the Kapaa quadrangle. 11,652 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 20 feet above sea level.
On record in Kapaʻa
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 4 records
Opaekaa Road Bridgelisted 1983
Pu'u'opae Bridgelisted 2005
Seto Buildinglisted 1979- Coco Palms Resortlisted 2021
Population over time
3 figuresKapaʻa grew from 9,471 to 11,652 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 9,471 | |
| 2010 | 10,699 | +1,228 (+13%) |
| 2020 | 11,652 | +953 (+9%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 10 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 Kapaa quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1967 USGS Kauai quadrangle1:250000
- 1970 USGS Kauai quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1978 USGS Kapaa quadrangle1:24000
- 1983 USGS Kapaa quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1996 USGS Kapaa quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
278 since 2001Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 278 fires within 5 miles of Kapaʻa between 2001 and 2016, burning about 2,497 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/undetermined | 277 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | County of Kaua'i | not named |
| 5 September 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | County of Kaua'i | not named |
| 5 September 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | County of Kaua'i | not named |
| 30 September 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | County of Kaua'i | not named |
| 30 September 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | County of Kaua'i | not named |
| 3 September 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | County of Kaua'i | not named |
| 28 September 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | County of Kaua'i | not named |
| 27 September 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | County of Kaua'i | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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 Kapaʻa | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q658046 | 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 360457. 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.






