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Pearl City, Hawaii

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1998. It stands in the Ewa census division. It lies in ZIP code area 96782. It lies near Punanani Gulch. The Survey maps it on the Waipahu quadrangle. 45,295 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 89 feet above sea level.

Pearl City within Honolulu County

On record in Pearl City

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 3 records

Population over time

2 figures

Pearl City fell from 47,698 to 45,295 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
201047,698
202045,295-2,403 (-5%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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

1,002 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1,002 fires within 5 miles of Pearl City between 1992 and 2017, burning about 3,719 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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/undetermined1000
Arson/incendiarism1
Recreation and ceremony1

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 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCity and County of Honolulunot named
9 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCity and County of Honolulunot named
9 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresCity and County of Honolulunot named
9 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCity and County of Honolulunot named
9 September 2001Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCity and County of Honolulunot named
8 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCity and County of Honolulunot named
8 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCity and County of Honolulunot named
8 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCity and County of Honolulunot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Honolulu 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 Pearl City: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone. 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
Halawa Quarry and MillStoneProducer

Every working recorded in Honolulu County

Storms near this place

15 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pearl City in 15 storm reports between 1996 and 2023: 6 heavy rain, 4 flood, 2 funnel cloud, 1 wildfire. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. 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
February 2023FloodPearl City$1,000Officials reported that the Pearl City Peninsula Compound main gate and Victor Wharf Access Road were closed due to flooding.
April 2023FloodPearl City-A trained spotter reported that the roads near Acacia Rd and Kuala St. along |Kamehameha Highway was flooded in Pearl City. 6-12 inches of water was reported on the roadway with vehicles slow to move through. Also, one lane was closed on H1 and Punahou St, due to flooding over the road. Additionally, cars were stranded in ponding water on the off ramp at H1 and Vineyard.
November 2013Debris FlowPearl City-An emergency manager reported a debris flow, including large boulders, along Waihona Street at Waihona Place, in south central Oahu.
March 2004Heavy RainPearl City-Heavy showers and rain over southern and eastern areas of Oahu produced small stream and drainage ditch flooding, and ponding of roadways. However, no serious property damage or injuries were reported.
April 2017Heavy RainPearl City-no account filed
February 2015Heavy RainPearl City-no account filed
May 2014Heavy RainPearl City-no account filed
May 2011Funnel CloudPearl City-no account filed
February 2009Heavy RainPearl City-no account filed
October 2009Heavy RainPearl City-no account filed
March 2006Flash FloodPearl City-no account filed
March 1998WildfirePearl City-no account filed
August 1997FloodPearl City-no account filed
October 1997FloodPearl City-no account filed
June 1996Funnel CloudPearl City-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Honolulu 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
Waimalu0.8 miles11
Waiau0.9 miles11
ʻEwa-Schofield Junction1.3 miles11
Pacific Palisades1.5 miles11
Kalauao1.5 miles11
ʻAiea2.0 miles11
Crestview2.0 miles11
ʻAiea Heights2.3 miles11

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 Pearl CityAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q572052The 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 363226. 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.