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.
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
Greenwell Storelisted 1978
Uchida Coffee Farmlisted 1995
Population over time
2 figuresKealakekua 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 2,019 | |
| 2020 | 2,307 | +288 (+14%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
10 surveys from 15 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.
- 1928 USGS Kailua quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1954 USGS Hawaii North quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Hawaii North quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Kealakekua quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1961 USGS Hawaii North quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1975 USGS Hawaii quadrangle1:250000
- 1977 USGS Kealakekua quadrangle1:24000
- 1980 USGS Hawaii County Sheet 1 quadrangle1:100000
- 1982 USGS Kealakekua quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1996 USGS Kealakekua quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
28 since 2004Regional 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/undetermined | 28 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | County of Hawai'i | not named |
| 3 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | County of Hawai'i | not named |
| 12 July 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | County of Hawai'i | not named |
| 5 May 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | County of Hawai'i | not named |
| 23 April 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | County of Hawai'i | not named |
| 18 April 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | County of Hawai'i | not named |
| 27 March 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | County of Hawai'i | not named |
| 11 March 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | County of Hawai'i | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Keauaou Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
14 since 1996Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2011 | Flash Flood | Kealakekua | - | 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 2017 | Heavy Rain | Kealakekua | - | no account filed |
| May 2016 | Heavy Rain | Kealakekua | - | no account filed |
| January 2014 | Heavy Rain | Kealakekua | - | no account filed |
| December 2013 | Heavy Rain | Kealakekua | - | no account filed |
| March 2006 | Hail | Kealakekua | - | no account filed |
| September 2005 | Heavy Rain | Kealakekua | - | no account filed |
| December 2005 | Heavy Rain | Kealakekua | - | no account filed |
| April 2004 | Heavy Rain | Kealakekua | - | no account filed |
| February 2002 | Hail | Kealakekua | - | no account filed |
| November 2001 | Flood | Kealakekua | - | no account filed |
| May 1997 | Flood | Kealakekua | - | no account filed |
| November 1997 | Lightning | Kealakekua | - | no account filed |
| June 1996 | Flood | Kealakekua | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Onouli (historical) | 0.4 miles | 15 | |
| Kainaliu | 0.8 miles | 15 | |
| Honalo | 1.5 miles | 15 | |
| Waihou | 1.6 miles | 15 | |
| Captain Cook | 1.6 miles | 12 | |
| Kaʻawaloa | 2.9 miles | 12 | |
| Nāpōʻopoʻo | 3.4 miles | 12 | |
| Keauhou | 3.5 miles | 15 |
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 Kealakekua | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1847338 | 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 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.









