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Puakō, Hawaii

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1928 and the latest in 1997. It stands in the South Kohala census division. It lies in ZIP code area 96743. It lies near Kamakoa Gulch. The Survey maps it on the Puu Hinai quadrangle. 267 people lived here at the 2020 count.

Puakō within Hawaii County

Population over time

2 figures

Puakō fell from 772 to 267 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
2010772
2020267-505 (-65%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 13 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

121 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 121 fires within 5 miles of Puakō between 1992 and 2020, burning about 13,128 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 were 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/undetermined114
Equipment and vehicle use2
Recreation and ceremony2
Arson/incendiarism2
Fireworks1

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 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresCounty of Hawai'inot named
29 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Hawai'inot named
29 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresCounty of Hawai'inot named
23 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Hawai'inot named
23 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Hawai'inot named
20 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Hawai'inot named
16 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Hawai'inot named
1 September 2009Missing 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

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Puakō: 3 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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
Yamada Kawaihae Coral MillCalciumPast Producer
Boase Number 1 Quarry and MillStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Kawaihae Coral MillStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

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
Lahuipuaa (historical)2.4 miles13
Waikoloa Village2.8 miles13
Waikoloa3.5 miles13
Waikui3.6 miles14
Waikoloa Beach Resort4.3 miles12
Kawaihae4.5 miles14
ʻAnaehoʻomalu4.7 miles12
Kapalaoa5.2 miles12

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 PuakōAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2439999The 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 363460. 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.