Biohazard and Crime Scene Remediation in Kekaha, HI

Kekaha, Hawaiian for 'the place,' is a census-designated place (CDP) in Kauai County on the southwest side of the island of Kauai.

The 2020 census counted 3,715 residents in Kekaha, up from 3,175 at the 2000 census.

There were 1,181 households and 1,343 housing units in the CDP in 2020.

The CDP covers 1.29 square miles, of which 1.00 square mile is land and 0.29 square miles are water, at an elevation of about 10 feet.

Kekaha is bordered to the east by Waimea and to the south by the Pacific Ocean, and Hawaii Route 50 runs through the community, leading northwest 7 miles to the Pacific Missile Range Facility and east 15 miles to Kalaheo.

A sugar mill was operating in Kekaha by 1884 and became the Kekaha Sugar Company in 1898; the mill closed in 2000 when Hawaii's sugar industry collapsed.

Hawaii's first and only train robbery took place in Kekaha in February 1920, when a masked gunman stopped a slow-moving sugar train and escaped with the locomotive and $11,000 taken from the labor paymaster.

An Army radio station a few miles west of Kekaha provided scatter communications during the Vietnam War from about 1962 until it was shut down in 1967.

The nearby Pacific Missile Range Facility is home to WWVH, the United States' Pacific-region shortwave time-signal station operated by NIST.

Kekaha Beach Park offers direct views of the island of Niihau across the channel.