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Poʻipū, Hawaii

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Koloa-Poipu census division. It lies in ZIP code area 96756. It lies near Pihakekua. The Survey maps it on the Koloa quadrangle. 1,299 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 20 feet above sea level.

Poʻipū within Kauai County

On record in Poʻipū

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

3 figures

Poʻipū grew from 1,075 to 1,299 between 2000 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
20001,075
2010979-96 (-9%)
20201,299+320 (+33%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 9 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

71 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 71 fires within 5 miles of Poʻipū between 2005 and 2012, burning about 509 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/undetermined71

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 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreState of Hawaiinot named
6 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Kaua'inot named
4 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Kaua'inot named
30 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresCounty of Kaua'inot named
20 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined200 acresCounty of Kaua'inot named
16 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Kaua'inot named
12 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty 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

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Poʻipū: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Calcium. 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
Mahaulepu Quarry and MillCalciumProducer

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
Koloa Mill1.8 miles9
Kukuiʻula2.0 miles9
Kōloa2.2 miles9
ʻŌmaʻo4.0 miles9
Lāwaʻi4.4 miles9
Kalāheo5.4 miles9
Kīpū5.5 miles9
Numila6.0 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 PoʻipūAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q599245The 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 363379. 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.