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.
Population over time
2 figuresOlowalu 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 80 | |
| 2020 | 100 | +20 (+25%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 9 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1954 USGS Maui quadrangle1:250000
- 1955 USGS Olowalu quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1966 USGS Maui quadrangle1:250000
- 1974 USGS Maui quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1983 USGS Olowalu quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1992 USGS Olowalu quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
61 since 1998Regional 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/undetermined | 61 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 570 acres | State of Hawaii | not named |
| 6 September 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | County of Maui | not named |
| 3 September 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 8.0 acres | County of Maui | not named |
| 16 September 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | County of Maui | not named |
| 14 September 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | County of Maui | not named |
| 12 September 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 105 acres | State of Hawaii | UKUMEHAME FIRING RANGE FIRE |
| 9 August 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | County of Maui | not named |
| 31 August 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 400 acres | State of Hawaii | EMERGENCY RESPONSE OLOWALU FIRE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Olowalu Cinder Pit | Pumice | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
5 since 1997Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January 2001 | Wildfire | Olowalu | 3 hurt | no account filed |
| January 2011 | Flash Flood | Olowalu | - | 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 1997 | Flood | Olowalu | - | Roads ponded with water briefly closed one lane of the highway near Olowalu, West Maui. |
| January 2010 | Heavy Rain | Olowalu | - | no account filed |
| July 2002 | Wildfire | Olowalu | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mōpua | 0.5 miles | 9 | |
| Launiupoko | 2.8 miles | 8 | |
| Waineʻe | 4.7 miles | 8 | |
| Lunaville | 5.1 miles | 8 | |
| Narushi Camp (historical) | 5.2 miles | 8 | |
| Lahaina | 5.3 miles | 8 | |
| Kelawea | 5.6 miles | 8 | |
| Lahainaluna | 5.7 miles | 8 |
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 Olowalu | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q4243383 | The 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.





