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Nāʻālehu, Hawaii

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1924 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the Kau census division. It lies in ZIP code area 96772. It lies near Alapaʻi Gulch. The Survey maps it on the Naalehu quadrangle. 811 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 738 feet above sea level.

Nāʻālehu within Hawaii County

Population over time

2 figures

Nāʻālehu fell from 866 to 811 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
2010866
2020811-55 (-6%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 14 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

38 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 38 fires within 5 miles of Nāʻālehu between 2004 and 2010, burning about 958 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/undetermined38

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 August 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Hawai'inot named
9 August 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Hawai'inot named
3 August 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresCounty of Hawai'inot named
22 August 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Hawai'inot named
5 July 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Hawai'inot named
5 July 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Hawai'inot named
27 July 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined25 acresCounty of Hawai'inot named
8 June 2004Missing 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
Waiʻōhinu1.6 miles14
Kīpukanahuaopala (historical)2.2 miles14
Honuʻapo2.6 miles14
Waikapuna2.8 miles14
Discovery Harbour2.8 miles14
Napumaia (historical)4.2 miles14
Hīlea5.7 miles15
Punaluʻu6.6 miles15

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 NāʻālehuAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2426296The 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 362519. 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.