Kapaʻau, Hawaii
14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1913 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the North Kohala census division. It lies in ZIP code area 96755. It lies near Waikaulapala Gulch. The Survey maps it on the Hawi quadrangle. 2,008 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 407 feet above sea level.
On record in Kapaʻau
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 3 records
Bond Districtlisted 1978
Kohala District Courthouselisted 1979
A. Nanbu Hotel-Holy's Bakerylisted 1999
Population over time
2 figuresKapaʻau grew from 1,734 to 2,008 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 1,734 | |
| 2020 | 2,008 | +274 (+16%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
10 surveys from 14 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.
- 1913 USGS Kohala quadrangle1:62500
- 1916 USGS Kohala quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1954 USGS Hawaii North quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Hawi quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1959 USGS Hawaii North quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Hawaii North quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1975 USGS Hawaii quadrangle1:250000
- 1980 USGS Hawaii County Sheet 1 quadrangle1:100000
- 1982 USGS Hawi quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1995 USGS Hawi quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
24 since 2004Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 24 fires within 5 miles of Kapaʻau between 2004 and 2012, burning about 8 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/undetermined | 24 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | County of Hawai'i | not named |
| 15 September 2004 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | County of Hawai'i | not named |
| 12 September 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | County of Hawai'i | not named |
| 6 August 2004 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | County of Hawai'i | not named |
| 28 August 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | County of Hawai'i | not named |
| 25 August 2004 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | County of Hawai'i | not named |
| 14 August 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | County of Hawai'i | not named |
| 21 June 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | County of Hawai'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 Kapaʻau | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2981812 | 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 360474. 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.









