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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.

Kapaʻau within Hawaii County

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

Population over time

2 figures

Kapaʻau 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.

YearPeople Change
20101,734
20202,008+274 (+16%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 14 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

24 since 2004

Regional 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/undetermined24

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
20 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Hawai'inot named
15 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Hawai'inot named
12 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Hawai'inot named
6 August 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Hawai'inot named
28 August 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Hawai'inot named
25 August 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Hawai'inot named
14 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Hawai'inot named
21 June 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Hawai'inot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hawaii 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
Halaʻula0.9 miles14
Honomakaʻu1.0 miles14
Hāwī1.8 miles14
Hālawa1.8 miles14
Makapala2.6 miles14
Niuliʻi2.9 miles15
Hikapoloa3.1 miles14
Māhukona6.3 miles15

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 KapaʻauAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2981812The 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.