Wainiha, Hawaii
7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Hanalei census division. It lies in ZIP code area 96714. It lies in Wainiha Valley. The Survey maps it on the Haena quadrangle. 419 people lived here at the 2020 count.
On record in Wainiha
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 within a mile 1 record
The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.
Kaua'i Belt Road-North Shore sectionlisted 2004 · 0.9 miles away
Population over time
2 figuresWainiha grew from 318 to 419 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 | 318 | |
| 2020 | 419 | +101 (+32%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 7 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.
- 1954 USGS Kauai quadrangle1:250000
- 1965 USGS Haena quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1967 USGS Kauai quadrangle1:250000
- 1970 USGS Kauai quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1983 USGS Haena quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
55 since 2002Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 55 fires within 5 miles of Wainiha between 2002 and 2017, burning about 130 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 | 55 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 September 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | County of Kaua'i | not named |
| 3 September 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | County of Kaua'i | not named |
| 26 September 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 19 acres | State of Hawaii | HAENA STATE PARK FIRE |
| 23 September 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | County of Kaua'i | not named |
| 20 September 2002 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | State of Hawaii | not named |
| 2 September 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | County of Kaua'i | not named |
| 16 September 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | County of Kaua'i | not named |
| 5 August 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | County of Kaua'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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Halehomaha | 0.8 miles | 7 | |
| Hāʻena | 1.2 miles | 7 | |
| Hanalei | 2.2 miles | 8 | |
| Puupehu (historical) | 3.2 miles | 8 | |
| Princeville | 3.4 miles | 8 | |
| Hanalei Homesteads | 4.4 miles | 8 | |
| Kalihi Wai | 6.0 miles | 8 | |
| Kīlauea | 7.2 miles | 9 |
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 Wainiha | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q4243039 | 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 365196. 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.




