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Makawao, Hawaii

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Makawao-Paia census division. It lies in ZIP code area 96768. It lies near Piʻiholo. The Survey maps it on the Haiku quadrangle. 7,297 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,578 feet above sea level.

Makawao within Maui County

On record in Makawao

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 4 records

Population over time

2 figures

Makawao grew from 7,184 to 7,297 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
20107,184
20207,297+113 (+2%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 10 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

131 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 131 fires within 5 miles of Makawao between 2000 and 2020, burning about 4,614 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/undetermined129
Equipment and vehicle use1
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
4 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresCounty of Mauinot named
25 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Mauinot named
21 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresCounty of Mauinot named
21 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Mauinot named
18 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Mauinot named
16 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Mauinot named
14 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Mauinot named
8 August 2009Missing 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

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Makawao: 2 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Aluminum. 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
West MauiAluminumOccurrenceGibbsite
West MauiAluminumOccurrence

Every working recorded in Maui County

Storms near this place

5 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Makawao in 5 storm reports between 1999 and 2015: 3 heavy rain, 1 hail, 1 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 2013Flash FloodMakawao-Brewer Road was closed and impassable due to high water from rainfall.
October 2015Heavy RainMakawao-no account filed
November 2014Heavy RainMakawao-no account filed
October 2006Heavy RainMakawao-no account filed
January 1999HailMakawao-no account filed

Every storm 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
Kokomo1.3 miles10
Pukalani1.7 miles9
Hāliʻimaile1.8 miles9
Paholoi (historical)2.6 miles9
Kaʻiliʻili (historical)2.6 miles10
Kailua Village (historical)2.8 miles9
Kaupakulua2.9 miles10
Olinda3.3 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 MakawaoAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2425873The 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 362090. 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.