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Hilo, Hawaii, 1907 Hilo Iron Works, 1929. A breakwater across Hilo Bay was begun in the first decade of the 20th century and completed in 1929. On April 1, 1946, an 8.6-magnitude earthquake near the Aleutian Islands created a 46-foot-high (14 m) tsunami that hit Hilo 4.9 hours later, killing 159 total in the islands, [10] with 96 deaths in Hilo ...
Postal services in Hilo commenced in 1858. When the Hawaiian Islands became a territory of the United States in 1900, officials wanted to expand postal and court facilities for the second-largest city in the territory. [2] By 1913, the Hilo Board of Trade and the territory's governmental representative secured US$200,000 for a federal building. [3]
Rank Name Population (2020) County 1 Honolulu †† 350,964 Honolulu: 2 East Honolulu: 50,922 Honolulu: 3 Pearl City: 45,295 Honolulu: 4 Hilo † 44,186
Hilo is located on the eastern, windward side of the island, enjoying abundance of rainfall, and therefore includes the island's most populated town, also called Hilo. [ 1 ] (3) North Hilo and (2) South Hilo Districts are located in the east coast of Hawaii County ( the Big Island ).
Federal Building, United States Post Office and Courthouse (Hilo, Hawaii) H. ... Hilo High School; Hilo Masonic Lodge Hall–Bishop Trust Building; Hilo Tropical ...
The Hilo Masonic Hall was another of the few fireproof buildings built just a few years earlier and a block away, in 1910. The only earlier commercial building that survives in Hilo is the S. Hata Building, built in 1912 by the brother of a board member of the Peoples Bank. The Hilo Federal Building was also
Southwest of Hilo on Hawaii Route 11 in Hawaii Volcanoes National Park 19°25′59″N 155°15′40″W / 19.4331°N 155.2611°W / 19.4331; -155.2611 ( Whitney Seismograph Vault Hilo
Hawaii County (Hawaiian: Kalana o Hawaiʻi; officially known as the County of Hawaiʻi) is a county in the U.S. state of Hawaii in the Hawaiian Islands. It is coextensive with the Island of Hawaii, often called the "Big Island" to distinguish it from the state as a whole. The 2020 Census population was 200,629. [1] The county seat is Hilo.