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Līhuʻe, Hawaii

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Lihue census division. It lies in ZIP code area 96766. It stands on Nāwiliwili Stream. The Survey maps it on the Lihue quadrangle. 8,004 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 220 feet above sea level.

Līhuʻe within Kauai County

On record in Līhuʻe

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 7 records

Population over time

2 figures

Līhuʻe grew from 6,455 to 8,004 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
20106,455
20208,004+1,549 (+24%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 8 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

201 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 201 fires within 5 miles of Līhuʻe between 2001 and 2016, burning about 1,793 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/undetermined198
Recreation and ceremony1
Equipment and vehicle use1
Arson/incendiarism1

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 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Kaua'inot named
5 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Kaua'inot named
26 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Kaua'inot named
26 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Kaua'inot named
25 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresCounty of Kaua'inot named
24 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Kaua'inot named
2 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Kaua'inot named
15 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Kaua'inot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Kauai County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Līhuʻe: 2 past producers, 1 producer, 1 prospect. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone, Aluminum, Iron, Phosphorus-Phosphates, Titanium, Water, Free, Silica. 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
Bluestone Quarry and MillStoneProducer
East Central Kauai DepositAluminum, Iron, Phosphorus-Phosphates, Titanium, Water, Free, SilicaProspect1949
45 Hm QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Kapaia Valley QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Kauai 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
Pua Loke0.4 miles8
Ulu Mahi0.6 miles8
Kupolo0.6 miles8
Ulu Ko0.7 miles8
Nāwiliwili1.3 miles8
Kapaia1.4 miles10
Hanamāʻulu1.4 miles10
Puhi1.6 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 LīhuʻeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q588881The 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 361837. 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.