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Wailuku, Hawaii

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1997. It stands in the Wailuku census division. It lies in ZIP code area 96793. It lies near Sand Hills. The Survey maps it on the Wailuku quadrangle. 17,697 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 249 feet above sea level.

Wailuku within Maui County

On record in Wailuku

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 11 records

Population over time

2 figures

Wailuku grew from 15,313 to 17,697 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
201015,313
202017,697+2,384 (+16%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 10 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

222 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 222 fires within 5 miles of Wailuku between 2004 and 2019, burning about 17,067 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/undetermined221
Arson/incendiarism1

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 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresCounty of Mauinot named
5 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Mauinot named
4 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Mauinot named
29 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Mauinot named
28 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Mauinot named
23 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Mauinot named
23 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Mauinot named
22 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Mauinot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Maui 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 Wailuku: 2 producers, 1 past producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Maui Block MillStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Happy Valley Pit and MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Waikapu Pit and MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Maui County

Storms near this place

15 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wailuku in 15 storm reports between 1998 and 2021: 7 heavy rain, 6 flash flood, 1 flood, 1 funnel cloud. 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
January 2013Flash FloodWailuku-Flood waters overwhelmed a drainage system and swamped a business along North Market Street in Wailuku.
November 2013Flash FloodWailuku-Fire crew responded to report of flooding at 399 N. Market Street in Wailuku. High water affected a church building and nearby apartments.
November 2013Flash FloodWailuku-A home became flooded along Holua Drive in Kahului.
November 2013Flash FloodWailuku-A home became flooded along Pala Circle in Kahului.
November 2013Flash FloodWailuku-A home became flooded along Palama Drive in Kahului.
March 2004Heavy RainWailuku-Heavy showers caused ponding of roadways, and small stream and drainage ditch flooding in windward parts of East and West Maui. There were no reports of serious property damage or injuries.
December 2021Heavy RainWailuku-no account filed
August 2018Heavy RainWailuku-no account filed
April 2003Heavy RainWailuku-no account filed
September 2002Heavy RainWailuku-no account filed
May 2002Heavy RainWailuku-no account filed
July 2002Flash FloodWailuku-no account filed
August 2002Heavy RainWailuku-no account filed
May 2001Funnel CloudWailuku-no account filed
November 1998FloodWailuku-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Maui 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
Happy Valley0.4 miles10
Puʻuohala Village0.6 miles10
Hopoi Village (historical)0.9 miles10
Wailuku Heights1.3 miles10
Paukūkalo1.4 miles10
Kahului1.5 miles10
Waiehu Camp1.7 miles10
Waiehu Village1.8 miles10

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 WailukuAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2087831The 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 364757. 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.