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Pākalā Village, Hawaii

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1996. It stands in the Kaumakani-Hanapepe census division. It lies in ZIP code area 96769. It lies near Mahinauli Gulch. The Survey maps it on the Hanapepe quadrangle. 286 people lived here at the 2020 count.

Pākalā Village within Kauai County

Population over time

2 figures

Pākalā Village fell from 294 to 286 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
2010294
2020286-8 (-3%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 10 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

154 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 154 fires within 5 miles of Pākalā Village between 2001 and 2020, burning about 4,283 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/undetermined151
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Recreation and ceremony1
Debris and open burning1

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
8 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Kaua'inot named
7 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresCounty of Kaua'inot named
5 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresState of Hawaiinot named
3 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Kaua'inot named
27 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Kaua'inot named
25 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Kaua'inot named
25 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresCounty of Kaua'inot named
12 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Kaua'inot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Kauai 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 Pākalā Village: 1 past producer, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Pumice, Salt. 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
Cinder PitPumicePast Producer
Unnamed SaltSaltUnknown

Every working recorded in Kauai 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
Kekupua1.1 miles10
Kapalawai1.1 miles10
Kaawanui Village1.2 miles10
Olokele1.5 miles10
Kapaka (historical)1.7 miles10
Kaumakani1.9 miles10
Waimea2.0 miles7
Nonopahu Village (historical)2.7 miles10

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 Pākalā VillageAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q979958The 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 362986. 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.