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Paukaa, Hawaii

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1915 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Papaikou-Wailea census division. It lies in ZIP code area 96720. It stands on Honoliʻi Stream. The Survey maps it on the Papaikou quadrangle. 434 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 243 feet above sea level.

Paukaa within Hawaii County

Population over time

2 figures

Paukaa grew from 425 to 434 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
2010425
2020434+9 (+2%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 11 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

84 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 84 fires within 5 miles of Paukaa between 2004 and 2012, burning about 25 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/undetermined84

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
6 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Hawai'inot named
6 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresCounty of Hawai'inot named
29 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Hawai'inot named
15 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Hawai'inot named
13 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Hawai'inot named
9 August 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Hawai'inot named
9 August 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Hawai'inot named
25 August 2006Missing 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

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 Paukaa: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Hilo Quarry and MillStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Yamada Hilo Quarry and MillStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working 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
Wainaku1.4 miles15
Pāpaʻikou1.7 miles11
Puʻuʻeo2.3 miles15
Makaokū2.7 miles15
Hilo2.8 miles15
Onomea (historical)3.5 miles11
Keaukaha3.5 miles15
Waiākea3.6 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 PaukaaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2215378The 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 363187. 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.