Puhi, Hawaii
8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Puhi-Hanamaulu census division. It lies in ZIP code area 96766. It stands on Halehaka Stream. The Survey maps it on the Lihue quadrangle. 3,380 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 344 feet above sea level.
On record in Puhi
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
- Grove Farm Company Locomotiveslisted 1979
Population over time
3 figuresPuhi grew from 1,186 to 3,380 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 1,186 | |
| 2010 | 2,906 | +1,720 (+145%) |
| 2020 | 3,380 | +474 (+16%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 8 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1954 USGS Kauai quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS Lihue quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1967 USGS Kauai quadrangle1:250000
- 1970 USGS Kauai quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1978 USGS Lihue quadrangle1:24000
- 1983 USGS Lihue quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
173 since 2001Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 173 fires within 5 miles of Puhi between 2001 and 2012, burning about 1,264 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/undetermined | 171 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | County of Kaua'i | not named |
| 26 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | County of Kaua'i | not named |
| 26 September 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | County of Kaua'i | not named |
| 25 September 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 20 acres | County of Kaua'i | not named |
| 24 September 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | County of Kaua'i | not named |
| 2 September 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | County of Kaua'i | not named |
| 15 September 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | County of Kaua'i | not named |
| 12 September 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | County of Kaua'i | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
3 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Puhi: 2 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bluestone Quarry and Mill | Stone | Producer | ||
| 45 Hm Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Kapaia Valley Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
2 since 2013Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Puhi in 2 storm reports between 2013 and 2019: 2 heavy rain. 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.
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.
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 Puhi | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1966339 | The 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 363494. 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.





