Honolulu County, Hawaii

Honolulu County History, Geography, Demographics, Cities and Towns, and Education

County Seat: Honolulu
Year Organized: 1905
Square Miles: 600

Court House:

530 South King Street
City Hall
Honolulu, HI 96813-0000

Etymology - Origin of County Name

Honolulu is a Hawaiian language word meaning "sheltered bay" or "place of shelter."

Demographics:

County QuickFacts: Census Bureau Quick Facts

History

The City and County of Honolulu is a combined city-county jurisdiction located in the U.S. state of Hawaiʻi. It is also the official municipal and cultural entity of the combined urban district of Honolulu and the rest of the island of Oʻahu in the U.S. state of Hawaiʻi, as prescribed in the city charter adopted in 1907 and accepted by the Legislature of the Territory of Hawaiʻi. The City and County encompasses all of the island of Oʻahu and several minor outlying islands including all of the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands (islands beyond Niʻihau except Midway Atoll). It acts as a public corporation that manages various aspects of traditional municipal governance primarily in the American manner.

Upon becoming a consolidated city-county on April 30, 1907, the combined territories were incorporated as the City and County of Honolulu, as it is known today

Geography

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 2,127 square miles (5,509 km²), of which, 600 square miles (1,553 km²) of it is land and 1,527 square miles (3,955 km²) of it is water. The total census tract area is 71.80% water. However, the majority of this area is the Pacific Ocean that surrounds the islands.

Neighboring Counties:

Surrounding area: North Pacific Ocean

Maui County, Hawaii - southeast
Kauai County, Hawaii - northwest

Cities and Towns:

- Honolulu (County Seat)	CDP	Incorporated Area
- Kailua	CDP
- Kaneohe	CDP
- Pearl City	CDP
- Waialua	CDP
- Waipahu	CDP

County Resources:

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County Resource Guide

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The history of our nation can be seen as a prolonged struggle to define the relative roles and powers of our governments: federal, state, and local. And the names we've given our counties, our most locally based jurisdictions, reflects the "characteristic features of our country!"

But age, size and colorful names of our counties isn't the only reason to explore counties' role in American history, or the history of county government itself. In fact, the story of county government reflects the larger meanings of American history.

Today's counties are the most flexible, locally responsive and creative governments in the US. They are the most diverse, varying in size, population, geography, and governmental structure. In their politics and policies, they express a 1990's political slogan "Think globally, act locally."

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