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Waimānalo, Hawaii

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 1999. It stands in the Koolaupoko census division. It lies in ZIP code area 96795. It stands on Puha Stream. The Survey maps it on the Koko Head quadrangle. 4,823 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 30 feet above sea level.

Waimānalo within Honolulu County

On record in Waimānalo

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

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 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

330 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 330 fires within 5 miles of Waimānalo between 2001 and 2013, burning about 918 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/undetermined330

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 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCity and County of Honolulunot named
8 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCity and County of Honolulunot named
7 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined50 acresCity and County of Honolulunot named
7 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCity and County of Honolulunot named
6 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined50 acresCity and County of Honolulunot named
4 September 2012Missing 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
3 September 2010Missing 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

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Waimānalo: 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Calcium, 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Kapah Quarry and MillStoneProducer
Waimanalo Quarry and MillCalciumPast Producer

Every working 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
Waimānalo Beach1.3 miles12
Keolu Hills2.0 miles14
Maunawili2.7 miles12
Pōhākupu2.8 miles14
Lanikai2.9 miles14
Kuliʻouʻou3.9 miles12
Kailua3.9 miles14
Niu4.4 miles12

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 WaimānaloAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1855219The 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 364775. 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.