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Kealakekua, Hawaii

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1928 and the latest in 1996. It stands in the South Kona census division. It lies in ZIP code area 96750. The Survey maps it on the Kealakekua quadrangle. 2,307 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,427 feet above sea level.

Kealakekua within Hawaii County

On record in Kealakekua

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 2 records

Population over time

2 figures

Kealakekua grew from 2,019 to 2,307 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
20102,019
20202,307+288 (+14%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 15 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

28 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 28 fires within 5 miles of Kealakekua 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/undetermined28

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
9 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Hawai'inot named
3 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresCounty of Hawai'inot named
12 July 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Hawai'inot named
5 May 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Hawai'inot named
23 April 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Hawai'inot named
18 April 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Hawai'inot named
27 March 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Hawai'inot named
11 March 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

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 Kealakekua: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Keauaou QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Hawaii County

Storms near this place

14 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Kealakekua in 14 storm reports between 1996 and 2017: 7 heavy rain, 3 flood, 2 hail, 1 lightning. 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
May 2011Flash FloodKealakekua-Hawaii Belt Road was closed for a time at Kainaliu, just north of Kealakekua in Kona on the leeward side of the Big Island of Hawaii, because of flooding caused by heavy rain.
September 2017Heavy RainKealakekua-no account filed
May 2016Heavy RainKealakekua-no account filed
January 2014Heavy RainKealakekua-no account filed
December 2013Heavy RainKealakekua-no account filed
March 2006HailKealakekua-no account filed
September 2005Heavy RainKealakekua-no account filed
December 2005Heavy RainKealakekua-no account filed
April 2004Heavy RainKealakekua-no account filed
February 2002HailKealakekua-no account filed
November 2001FloodKealakekua-no account filed
May 1997FloodKealakekua-no account filed
November 1997LightningKealakekua-no account filed
June 1996FloodKealakekua-no account filed

Every storm 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
Onouli (historical)0.4 miles15
Kainaliu0.8 miles15
Honalo1.5 miles15
Waihou1.6 miles15
Captain Cook1.6 miles12
Kaʻawaloa2.9 miles12
Nāpōʻopoʻo3.4 miles12
Keauhou3.5 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 KealakekuaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1847338The 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 360942. 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.