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Kualapuʻu, Hawaii

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the West Molokai census division. It lies in ZIP code area 96757. It stands on Kualapuʻu. The Survey maps it on the Kaunakakai quadrangle. 2,110 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 843 feet above sea level.

Kualapuʻu within Maui County

Population over time

2 figures

Kualapuʻu grew from 2,027 to 2,110 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
20102,027
20202,110+83 (+4%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 7 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

47 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 47 fires within 5 miles of Kualapuʻu between 1998 and 2016, burning about 20,980 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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/undetermined44
Debris and open burning1
Arson/incendiarism1
Other causes1

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
8 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Mauinot named
7 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Mauinot named
6 September 2016Other causesunder an acreKalaupapa National Historical ParkSTATE KITCHEN
4 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresCounty of Mauinot named
3 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Mauinot named
29 September 1998Debris and open burningunder an acreKalaupapa National Historical ParkBAND AID
28 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined8.0 acresCounty of Mauinot named
11 September 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

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Kualapuʻu: 3 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone. 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
Manawaunui Quarry and MillStonePast Producer
Kaunakakai PitsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Red Hill PitStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working 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
Kīpū1.1 miles7
Maʻālehu1.2 miles7
Kalaʻe1.8 miles7
Hoʻolehua2.0 miles7
ʻUmipaʻa3.3 miles7
Ranch Camp (historical)4.0 miles7
Manila Camp (historical)4.1 miles7
Kaunakakai4.5 miles7

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 KualapuʻuAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2020849The 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 361457. 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.