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Waimea, Hawaii

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1916 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the South Kohala census division. It lies in ZIP code area 96743. It stands on Lanimaumau Stream. The Survey maps it on the Kamuela quadrangle. 9,904 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 2,670 feet above sea level.

Waimea within Hawaii County

On record in Waimea

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

Population over time

2 figures

Waimea grew from 9,212 to 9,904 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
20109,212
20209,904+692 (+8%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 15 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

48 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 48 fires within 5 miles of Waimea between 1996 and 2017, burning about 28,629 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/undetermined47
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
29 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresCounty of Hawai'inot named
2 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresCounty of Hawai'inot named
17 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Hawai'inot named
8 August 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Hawai'inot named
4 August 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Hawai'inot named
24 August 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Hawai'inot named
21 August 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresCounty of Hawai'inot named
18 August 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty 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
Puopelu0.6 miles15
Kūhiō Village0.8 miles15
Waiʻaka1.6 miles15
Kawailiʻulā (historical)1.7 miles15
Saddle Road Junction6.1 miles10
Akona6.3 miles11
Mānā6.3 miles11
Kaʻau6.7 miles11

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 WaimeaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1318641The 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 364795. 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.