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Kealakekua is a census-designated place (CDP) in Hawaiʻi County, Hawaiʻi, United States.The population was 2,019 at the 2010 census, [2] up from 1,645 at the 2000 census.. It was the subject of the 1933 popular song "My Little Grass Shack in Kealakekua, Hawaii" by Bill Cogswell, Tommy Harrison and Johnny Noble, which became a Hawaiian music standard.
Captain Cook is a census-designated place (CDP) in Hawaiʻi County, Hawaiʻi, in the United States, located in the District of South Kona.The community, within the land division of Kealakekua, is so named because the post office for the area was located in the Captain Cook Coffee Co. during the early 1900s.
Kealakekua is 5 miles (8 km) to the south. According to the United States Census Bureau, the Kahaluʻu-Keauhou CDP has a total area of 7.9 square miles (20.4 km 2), of which 5.6 square miles (14.5 km 2) are land and 2.3 square miles (5.9 km 2), or 28.89%, are water. [2] On the coast is the historic district of Kahaluʻu Bay.
The school has a Kealakekua mailing address, and it, along with Konawaena Middle School, [3] [4] is on a campus partially in the Kealakekua census-designated place (CDP) and partially in the Captain Cook CDP. [5] [6] [7]
Hawaii County has a total area of 5,086.70 square miles (13,174.5 km 2); 4,028.02 square miles (10,432.5 km 2) is land and 1,058.69 square miles (2,742.0 km 2) is water [3] (mostly all off the ocean shoreline but counted in the total area by the U.S. Census Bureau). The county's land area comprises 62.7 percent of the state's land area.
A Kalaoa road sign on Hawaii Route 19, Kona District, Hawaii, between the 93 mile marker and Kaiminani Dr.. Keahole at Kona International Airport is located in the lower Kalaoa CDP, and serves the western side of the Big Island, including Kailua-Kona, Holualoa, Keauhou, Captain Cook, Waikoloa, Waimea, and the Kohala Coast.
The five counties of Hawaii on the Hawaiian Islands enjoy somewhat greater status than many counties on the United States mainland. Counties in Hawaii are the only legally constituted government bodies below that of the state. No formal level of government (such as city governments) exists below that of the county in Hawaii.
The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has designated more than 1,000 statistical areas for the United States and Puerto Rico. [2] These statistical areas are important geographic delineations of population clusters used by the OMB, the United States Census Bureau, planning organizations, and federal, state, and local government entities.