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Māʻalaea, Hawaii

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1996. It stands in the Kihei census division. It lies in ZIP code area 96793. It lies near Malalowaiaole Gulch. The Survey maps it on the Maalaea quadrangle. 310 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 98 feet above sea level.

Māʻalaea within Maui County

On record in Māʻalaea

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 within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Population over time

2 figures

Māʻalaea fell from 352 to 310 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
2010352
2020310-42 (-12%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 9 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

174 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 174 fires within 5 miles of Māʻalaea between 1998 and 2020, burning about 42,385 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 were 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/undetermined171
Arson/incendiarism2
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
9 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined570 acresState of Hawaiinot named
8 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresCounty of Mauinot named
4 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Mauinot named
29 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Mauinot named
29 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Mauinot named
29 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Mauinot named
28 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Mauinot named
27 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresCounty of Mauinot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Maui County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Māʻalaea: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Maui Block MillStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Waikapu Pit and MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

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
Hyashi Village (historical)3.0 miles10
Airport Village (historical)3.5 miles8
Village Six (historical)3.7 miles10
Kīhei3.9 miles8
Waikapū4.4 miles10
Ah Fong Village (historical)4.5 miles10
Village Thirteen (historical)4.9 miles9
Village Five (historical)5.2 miles9

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 MāʻalaeaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1902540The 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 361945. 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.