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Waialua, Hawaii

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1999. It stands in the Waialua census division. It lies in ZIP code area 96791. It stands on Kaukonahua Stream. The Survey maps it on the Haleiwa quadrangle. 4,062 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 13 feet above sea level.

Waialua within Honolulu County

Population over time

2 figures

Waialua grew from 3,860 to 4,062 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
20103,860
20204,062+202 (+5%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 12 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

344 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 344 fires within 5 miles of Waialua between 1992 and 2019, burning about 12,688 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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/undetermined342
Arson/incendiarism1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresCity and County of Honolulunot named
7 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresCity and County of Honolulunot named
5 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCity and County of Honolulunot named
4 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCity and County of Honolulunot named
4 September 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresCity and County of Honolulunot named
30 September 2001Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCity and County of Honolulunot named
3 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresCity and County of Honolulunot named
3 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCity and County of Honolulunot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Honolulu 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 Waialua: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Waialua Sand PitsSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Honolulu County

Storms near this place

36 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Waialua in 36 storm reports between 1999 and 2026: 27 heavy rain, 6 wildfire, 2 flash flood, 1 flood. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2002Flash FloodWaialua$60,000no account filed
March 2026Flash FloodWaialua$40,000Persistent heavy rain fell across the island of Oahu. Water flooded a residence in Waialua and over a foot of water was reported on Farrington Highway. Flooding was also reported at Waialua High and Intermediate School, and Komo St and Waialua Beach Rd, Waialua.
February 2021Heavy RainWaialua-no account filed
March 2021Heavy RainWaialua-no account filed
March 2021Heavy RainWaialua-no account filed
December 2021Heavy RainWaialua-no account filed
February 2020Heavy RainWaialua-no account filed
October 2020Heavy RainWaialua-no account filed
April 2019Heavy RainWaialua-no account filed
August 2019Heavy RainWaialua-no account filed
May 2019Heavy RainWaialua-no account filed
October 2019Heavy RainWaialua-no account filed
February 2018Heavy RainWaialua-no account filed
February 2018Heavy RainWaialua-no account filed
November 2018Heavy RainWaialua-no account filed
September 2016Heavy RainWaialua-no account filed
December 2016Heavy RainWaialua-no account filed
December 2016Heavy RainWaialua-no account filed
September 2015Heavy RainWaialua-no account filed
May 2015Heavy RainWaialua-no account filed
October 2014Heavy RainWaialua-no account filed
October 2014Heavy RainWaialua-no account filed
September 2014Heavy RainWaialua-no account filed
September 2012Heavy RainWaialua-no account filed
January 2009Heavy RainWaialua-no account filed
September 2005Heavy RainWaialua-no account filed
September 2005Heavy RainWaialua-no account filed
August 2004Heavy RainWaialua-no account filed
June 2003Heavy RainWaialua-no account filed
September 2003WildfireWaialua-no account filed
August 2003WildfireWaialua-no account filed
August 2002WildfireWaialua-no account filed
September 2002WildfireWaialua-no account filed
March 2001WildfireWaialua-no account filed
July 2001WildfireWaialua-no account filed
December 1999FloodWaialua-no account filed

Every storm 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
Ranch Camp0.8 miles12
Kamoʻoloa0.9 miles12
Thompson Corner1.1 miles12
Haleʻiwa1.4 miles12
Mokulēʻia1.4 miles10
Mokulēʻia Beach Colony2.5 miles10
Kawailoa Beach4.3 miles12
Kapaeloa4.9 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 WaialuaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2802599The 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 364543. 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.