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Olowalu, Hawaii

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Lahaina census division. It lies in ZIP code area 96761. It stands on Olowalu Stream. The Survey maps it on the Olowalu quadrangle. 100 people lived here at the 2020 count.

Olowalu within Maui County

Population over time

2 figures

Olowalu grew from 80 to 100 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
201080
2020100+20 (+25%)

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

61 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 61 fires within 5 miles of Olowalu between 1998 and 2020, burning about 12,153 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/undetermined61

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
6 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Mauinot named
3 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined8.0 acresCounty of Mauinot named
16 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Mauinot named
14 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Mauinot named
12 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined105 acresState of HawaiiUKUMEHAME FIRING RANGE FIRE
9 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Mauinot named
31 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined400 acresState of HawaiiEMERGENCY RESPONSE OLOWALU FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Maui County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Olowalu: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Pumice. 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
Olowalu Cinder PitPumicePast Producer

Every working recorded in Maui County

Storms near this place

5 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Olowalu in 5 storm reports between 1997 and 2011: 2 wildfire, 1 flood, 1 heavy rain, 1 flash flood. The reports record 3 injuries. 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
January 2001WildfireOlowalu3 hurtno account filed
January 2011Flash FloodOlowalu-Flooding and debris flow across parts of Honoapiilani Highway between Maalaea and Olowalu on Maui forced county officials to close the road for a time.
January 1997FloodOlowalu-Roads ponded with water briefly closed one lane of the highway near Olowalu, West Maui.
January 2010Heavy RainOlowalu-no account filed
July 2002WildfireOlowalu-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
Mōpua0.5 miles9
Launiupoko2.8 miles8
Waineʻe4.7 miles8
Lunaville5.1 miles8
Narushi Camp (historical)5.2 miles8
Lahaina5.3 miles8
Kelawea5.6 miles8
Lahainaluna5.7 miles8

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 OlowaluAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4243383The 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 362800. 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.