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Kurtistown, Hawaii

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1917 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Keaau-Mountain View census division. It lies in ZIP code area 96749. The Survey maps it on the Mountain View quadrangle. 2,515 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 633 feet above sea level.

Kurtistown within Hawaii County

Population over time

2 figures

Kurtistown grew from 1,298 to 2,515 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
20101,298
20202,515+1,217 (+94%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 13 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

33 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 33 fires within 5 miles of Kurtistown between 2004 and 2011, burning about 9 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/undetermined33

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
28 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Hawai'inot named
28 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Hawai'inot named
2 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Hawai'inot named
26 August 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresCounty of Hawai'inot named
23 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Hawai'inot named
15 August 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Hawai'inot named
13 August 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Hawai'inot named
1 August 2006Missing 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 Kurtistown: 1 producer. All of them still produce. 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
Keaau Mill and QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Hawaii County

Storms near this place

3 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Kurtistown in 3 storm reports between 2015 and 2019: 3 flash flood. 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
February 2019Flash FloodKurtistown-Heavy rain in the Puna District in windward Big Island led to the closure of Pohaku Drive at the 39th Avenue intersection. The normally dry Waipahoehoe Stream overflowed and forced the closing of the roadway in Orchidlands Estates.
August 2015Flash FloodKurtistown-Waipahoehoe Stream overflowed south of Keaau in Puna on the Big Island of Hawaii and forced the closure of Pohaku Drive at 39th Avenue.
August 2015Flash FloodKurtistown-With deep, standing water; officials closed the intersection of C Road and 9th south of Keaau in the Puna District on the Big Island of Hawaii.

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
Elevenmile Homestead1.2 miles13
Keaʻau1.5 miles13
Ohia (historical)1.9 miles13
Waipāhoehoe2.2 miles13
Ferndale (historical)2.4 miles13
Kukui2.9 miles13
Orchidlands Estates3.3 miles13
Pulu (historical)4.0 miles13

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 KurtistownAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2064772The 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 361629. 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.