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Kapalua, Hawaii

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1997. It stands in the Lahaina census division. It lies in ZIP code area 96761. It lies near Mokupeʻa Gulch. The Survey maps it on the Napili quadrangle. 495 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 207 feet above sea level.

Kapalua within Maui County

Population over time

2 figures

Kapalua grew from 353 to 495 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
2010353
2020495+142 (+40%)

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

54 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 54 fires within 5 miles of Kapalua between 1998 and 2019, burning about 1,363 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/undetermined54

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
26 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined73 acresCounty of Mauinot named
9 August 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Mauinot named
8 August 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresCounty of Mauinot named
7 August 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Mauinot named
2 August 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Mauinot named
18 August 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Mauinot named
15 August 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Mauinot named
14 August 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Mauinot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Maui 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 Kapalua: 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Aluminum. 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
Hawaii BauxiteAluminumOccurrenceBauxite, Gibbsite

Every working recorded in Maui County

Storms near this place

1 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Kapalua in 1 storm report in 2005: 1 heavy rain. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
January 2005Heavy RainKapalua-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Maui 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
Honokahua0.2 miles10
Nāpili1.0 miles10
Honolua (historical)1.3 miles10
Kahana1.9 miles10
Honokōhau2.8 miles10
Mahinahina Camp (historical)3.0 miles8
Honokōwai3.6 miles8
Puukolii4.7 miles8

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 KapaluaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1820420The 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 1867255. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.