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Waimea, Hawaii

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Kekaha-Waimea census division. It lies in ZIP code area 96796. It stands on Waimea River. The Survey maps it on the Kekaha OE S quadrangle. 2,057 people lived here at the 2020 count.

Waimea within Kauai 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 7 records

Population over time

2 figures

Waimea grew from 1,855 to 2,057 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
20101,855
20202,057+202 (+11%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 7 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

138 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 138 fires within 5 miles of Waimea between 2001 and 2020, burning about 6,450 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/undetermined135
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Recreation and ceremony1
Debris and open burning1

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 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Kaua'inot named
7 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresCounty of Kaua'inot named
3 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Kaua'inot named
3 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Kaua'inot named
27 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Kaua'inot named
25 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresCounty of Kaua'inot named
12 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Kaua'inot named
10 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Kaua'inot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Kauai 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 Waimea: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Pumice. 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
Cinder PitPumicePast Producer

Every working recorded in Kauai County

Storms near this place

8 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Waimea in 8 storm reports between 1999 and 2022: 3 heavy rain, 2 flash flood, 1 wildfire, 1 tornado. 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
December 2022Thunderstorm WindWaimea-Emergency management reported widespread power outages due to thunderstorm wind gusts.
March 2016Flash FloodWaimea-Water from heavy rain was reported to be entering the Waimea Theater building.
January 2007Heavy RainWaimea-Heavy showers over western parts of Kauai caused ponding on roadways, and small stream and drainage ditch flooding. No serious property damage or injuries were reported.|
January 2011Heavy RainWaimea-no account filed
March 2007Heavy RainWaimea-no account filed
January 2005Flash FloodWaimea-no account filed
January 2005Tornado (F0)Waimea-no account filed
April 1999WildfireWaimea-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Kauai 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
Kapalawai1.0 miles10
Kekupua1.5 miles10
Nonopahu Village (historical)1.9 miles10
Pākalā Village2.0 miles10
Kaawanui Village2.3 miles10
Kekaha2.4 miles7
Pokii3.1 miles7
Olokele3.5 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 WaimeaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2989567The 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 364794. 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.