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Punaluʻu, Hawaii

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Koolauloa census division. It lies in ZIP code area 96717. It stands on Maipuna Stream. The Survey maps it on the Kahana quadrangle. 1,374 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 6 feet above sea level.

Punaluʻu within Honolulu County

Population over time

2 figures

Punaluʻu grew from 1,164 to 1,374 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
20101,164
20201,374+210 (+18%)

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

70 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 70 fires within 5 miles of Punaluʻu between 1992 and 2012, burning about 56 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/undetermined70

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
8 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCity and County of Honolulunot named
6 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCity and County of Honolulunot named
3 September 2001Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCity and County of Honolulunot named
25 September 2001Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCity and County of Honolulunot named
18 September 2001Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresCity and County of Honolulunot named
1 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCity and County of Honolulunot named
8 August 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresCity and County of Honolulunot named
6 August 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresCity and County of Honolulunot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire 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
Kahana1.1 miles13
Kaʻaʻawa1.7 miles13
Hauʻula3.1 miles12
Waikāne5.2 miles13
Lāʻie5.7 miles13
Waiāhole6.1 miles13
Kahaluʻu8.0 miles13
Kahuku8.3 miles13

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 PunaluʻuAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2344651The 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 1853110. 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.