Honokaʻa, Hawaiʻi One Place Study
Location: Honokaʻa, Hawaiʻi, Hawaiʻi, United States
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Honokaʻa, Hawaiʻi One Place Study
Name
Honokaʻa is translated from the Hawaiian to mean "rolling [as stones] bay", referring to the sound of the sea.[1]
Geography
- Continent: Oceania
- Country: United States of America
- State/Province: Hawaii
- County: Hawaii
- GPS Coordinates: 20.0775, -155.464167
- Elevation: 352.7 m or 1157.2 feet
- For additional context, the 20th parallel also runs through Mexico City and Hong Kong.
- Honokaʻa is on the East Coast of Hawaiʻi Island, also known as the Big Island. The two largest towns on the Island are Kailua-Kona, 52 miles away, and Hilo, 45 miles the other way. Kilauea, the active volcano is about 70 miles from Honokaʻa.
- Hawaiʻi is 2,300 miles from San Francisco, 4,800 miles from New York City, and 4,100 miles from Japan.
- The Historic Hawaiʻi Foundation Story Map project recently completed a Cultural Survey of the area. Honokaʻa is a featured location on the website, He Koaʻe, Manu o ka Pali Kahakō There are pictures, stories, and a few short interviews to help understand Honokaʻa.
History
Population
Hawaiʻi County (the entire island of Hawaii) as of July 1, 2022, had 206,000 people. Honokaʻa is a rural community in the Hāmākua District not an incorporated city, thus it does not appear in census records. Instead it is included in the Honokaʻa-Kukuihaele Tract which is approximately 15 miles along the coast and extends inland with an irregular boundary (2 to 10 miles from the coast). The 2020 census recorded 4,200 people in the Tract. Various websites estimate the population of Honokaʻa as between 2,000 and 3,000.
Honokaʻa-Kukuihaele Tract is an ethnically diverse area as the history section explains. Using census data:
68% of the population self-identifies as ʻone raceʻ, breakdown by race:
- 37% Asian
- 18% White
- 10% Hawaiian
- 3% Other
32% of the population self-identifies as mixed race.
Notables
Sources
- ↑ Ruby, Laura and Ross W. Stephenson,_Images of America Honokaa Town, 2015, Arcadia Publishing, Charleston, South Carolina
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