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Waiʻōhinu, Hawaii

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1924 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the Kau census division. It lies in ZIP code area 96772. It lies near Kapuna. The Survey maps it on the Naalehu quadrangle. 198 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,055 feet above sea level.

Waiʻōhinu within Hawaii County

Population over time

2 figures

Waiʻōhinu fell from 213 to 198 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
2010213
2020198-15 (-7%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 14 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

39 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 39 fires within 5 miles of Waiʻōhinu between 2004 and 2010, burning about 963 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/undetermined38
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 August 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Hawai'inot named
9 August 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Hawai'inot named
3 August 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresCounty of Hawai'inot named
22 August 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Hawai'inot named
14 August 2005Recreation and ceremony5.0 acresHawaii Volcanoes National ParkKAHUKU
5 July 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Hawai'inot named
5 July 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Hawai'inot named
27 July 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined25 acresCounty of Hawai'inot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire 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
Nāʻālehu1.6 miles14
Kīpukanahuaopala (historical)1.7 miles14
Discovery Harbour2.0 miles14
Napumaia (historical)3.4 miles14
Waikapuna3.7 miles14
Honuʻapo3.7 miles14
Hīlea6.3 miles15
Punaluʻu7.4 miles15

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 WaiʻōhinuAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4243035The 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 364822. 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.