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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.

Kapaʻa within Kauai County

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

Population over time

3 figures

Kapaʻa 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.

YearPeople Change
20009,471
201010,699+1,228 (+13%)
202011,652+953 (+9%)

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

278 since 2001

Regional 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/undetermined277
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
5 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Kaua'inot named
5 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Kaua'inot named
5 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Kaua'inot named
30 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Kaua'inot named
30 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Kaua'inot named
3 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Kaua'inot named
28 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Kaua'inot named
27 September 2010Missing 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

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
Keālia0.8 miles10
Kumukumu1.1 miles10
Kawaihau1.7 miles10
Waipouli2.0 miles10
Kapahi2.3 miles10
Papaloa2.5 miles10
Wailua House Lots2.6 miles10
Olohena2.8 miles10

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 KapaʻaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q658046The 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.