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Laupāhoehoe, Hawaii

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1915 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the North Hilo census division. It lies in ZIP code area 96764. It stands on Hōkūmāhoe Stream (historical). The Survey maps it on the Papaaloa quadrangle. 1,147 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 360 feet above sea level.

Laupāhoehoe within Hawaii County

Population over time

2 figures

Laupāhoehoe grew from 581 to 1,147 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
2010581
20201,147+566 (+97%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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

16 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Laupāhoehoe between 2003 and 2011, burning about 224 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/undetermined15
Recreation and ceremony1

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
12 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined150 acresState of Hawaiinot named
2 August 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresCounty of Hawai'inot named
28 July 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Hawai'inot named
22 July 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Hawai'inot named
25 June 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Hawai'inot named
3 May 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Hawai'inot named
19 May 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Hawai'inot named
28 April 2011Missing 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

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
Pāpaʻaloa0.9 miles13
Welokā2.5 miles13
Niu Village2.8 miles14
Kukui Village3.1 miles14
Milo Village3.3 miles14
ʻŌʻōkala3.4 miles14
Nīnole4.8 miles13
Honohina (historical)5.8 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 LaupāhoehoeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2630385The 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 361749. 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.