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Pāhala, Hawaii

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1923 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the Kau census division. It lies in ZIP code area 96777. It lies near Kauhuhuʻula Gulch. The Survey maps it on the Pahala quadrangle. 1,403 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 920 feet above sea level.

Pāhala within Hawaii County

On record in Pāhala

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 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Pāhala grew from 1,356 to 1,403 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
20101,356
20201,403+47 (+3%)

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

65 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 65 fires within 5 miles of Pāhala between 2003 and 2017, burning about 922 acres in total. 1 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/undetermined64
Natural1

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 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresCounty of Hawai'inot named
9 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresCounty of Hawai'inot named
6 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresCounty of Hawai'inot named
4 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Hawai'inot named
4 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresCounty of Hawai'inot named
24 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Hawai'inot named
23 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.5 acresCounty of Hawai'inot named
18 September 2010Missing 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
Moaʻula (historical)1.8 miles14
Punaluʻu4.8 miles15
Hīlea5.5 miles15
Punaluʻu Kahawai7.5 miles15
Honuʻapo8.7 miles14
Napumaia (historical)9.5 miles14
ʻĀinapō11.0 miles19
Nāʻālehu11.2 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 PāhalaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2594148The 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 362938. 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.