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.
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
Imiola Churchlisted 1975
Population over time
2 figuresWaimea 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 9,212 | |
| 2020 | 9,904 | +692 (+8%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 15 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1916 USGS Waipio quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
- 1954 USGS Hawaii North quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Kamuela quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1959 USGS Hawaii North quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Hawaii North quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1975 USGS Hawaii quadrangle1:250000
- 1980 USGS Hawaii County Sheet 1 quadrangle1:100000
- 1982 USGS Kamuela quadrangle1:24000
- 1995 USGS Kamuela quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
48 since 1996Regional 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/undetermined | 47 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29 September 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | County of Hawai'i | not named |
| 2 September 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4.0 acres | County of Hawai'i | not named |
| 17 September 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | County of Hawai'i | not named |
| 8 August 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | County of Hawai'i | not named |
| 4 August 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | County of Hawai'i | not named |
| 24 August 2004 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | County of Hawai'i | not named |
| 21 August 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | County of Hawai'i | not named |
| 18 August 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | County of Hawai'i | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Puopelu | 0.6 miles | 15 | |
| Kūhiō Village | 0.8 miles | 15 | |
| Waiʻaka | 1.6 miles | 15 | |
| Kawailiʻulā (historical) | 1.7 miles | 15 | |
| Saddle Road Junction | 6.1 miles | 10 | |
| Akona | 6.3 miles | 11 | |
| Mānā | 6.3 miles | 11 | |
| Kaʻau | 6.7 miles | 11 |
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 Waimea | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1318641 | The 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.








