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Maunawili, Hawaii

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 1999. It stands in the Koolaupoko census division. It lies in ZIP code area 96734. It lies in Maunawili Valley. The Survey maps it on the Koko Head quadrangle. 2,026 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 69 feet above sea level.

Maunawili within Honolulu County

Population over time

2 figures

Maunawili fell from 2,040 to 2,026 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
20102,040
20202,026-14 (-1%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 12 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

368 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 368 fires within 5 miles of Maunawili between 1992 and 2017, burning about 711 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/undetermined368

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 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCity and County of Honolulunot named
8 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCity and County of Honolulunot named
8 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCity and County of Honolulunot named
7 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined50 acresCity and County of Honolulunot named
6 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined50 acresCity and County of Honolulunot named
6 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCity and County of Honolulunot named
6 September 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCity and County of Honolulunot named
5 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCity and County of Honolulunot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Honolulu 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 Maunawili: 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Calcium, Stone. 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
Kapah Quarry and MillStoneProducer
Waimanalo Quarry and MillCalciumPast Producer

Every working recorded in Honolulu County

Storms near this place

9 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Maunawili in 9 storm reports between 2009 and 2024: 4 debris flow, 2 heavy rain, 2 flash flood, 1 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
May 2024Debris FlowMaunawili-According to the Star Advertiser, the right lane of the Pali Highway after the eastern tunnel exit was closed due to a landslide.
May 2024FloodMaunawili-Auloa Road was closed from Castle Junction to Maunawili due to flooding.
December 2023Debris FlowMaunawili-Heavy rainfall over the Koolau Mountain Range led to a landslide on the Pali Highway. Honolulu Police Department reported the closure of the town-bound lanes of the Pali Highway due to a landslide.
March 2021Debris FlowMaunawili-A small section of the Pali Highway, in the Kaneohe-bound lane, was blocked by debris from the nearby steep terrain.
December 2019Debris FlowMaunawili-On Oahu, a rock slide occurred along Pali Highway near the tunnel, closing the Kailua-bound lanes for a time starting at Waokanaka Street.
October 2018Flash FloodMaunawili-Honolulu Police reported that the H-3 Freeway was impassable near the Koolau Country Club due to flooding over a portion of the roadway.
March 2009Flash FloodMaunawili-Very heavy rain caused flash flooding and forced county officials to close the off-ramp from the H-3 freeway to Kamehameha Highway on the island of Oahu.
October 2020Heavy RainMaunawili-no account filed
January 2009Heavy RainMaunawili-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Honolulu 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
Pōhākupu1.3 miles14
Keolu Hills2.3 miles14
Waimānalo2.7 miles12
Kailua2.8 miles14
Kokokahi3.0 miles13
Mahinui3.0 miles14
Lanikai3.1 miles14
Keaʻalu3.2 miles14

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 MaunawiliAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2477478The 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 362301. 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.