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Gazetteer
Hilo, HI -- U.S. Census Designated Place in Hawaii
Population (2000): 40759
Housing Units (2000): 16026
Land area (2000): 54.289574 sq. miles (140.609344 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 4.147198 sq. miles (10.741194 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 58.436772 sq. miles (151.350538 sq. km)
FIPS code: 14650
Located within: Hawaii (HI), FIPS 15
Location: 19.705520 N, 155.085918 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 96720
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
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Hilo (soil)

Hilo soil is the official state soil of the state of Hawaii. These soils cover about and are considered prime agricultural land. The Hawaiian definition of the word “Hilo” is “first night after the new moon.” Also, the word is the Polynesian term for “Navigator,” and the name of a town, Hilo, Hawaii.

Usage examples of "hilo".

Kraemer had a good view of the police bust from where he was parked, out of sight of the Hilo Airport main terminal, behind the row of coconut palms.

Annoyed at the drizzling rain that greeted her, she scanned the front of the Hilo Airport once again.

Kraemer was running through a mental list while driving from Hilo to the Volcano hospital to check on Laura and take Jenna back to her hotel in Hilo.

True to his word he applied for--and got--a job on the local Hilo police force.

Fruit, sugar, and excellent olive oil were the goods which Hilo yielded.

The Hilo, or Ylo people, some weeks later, said that seventy Spaniards had been killed and about 200 wounded.

Instead, the fellow who raided the Hilo Club could have been a crook rigged up like The Shadow.

For a guy named Zutz was outside man for the Hilo Club and it looks like he was bribed by the man in black.

They had reasoned that the raider at the Hilo Club had been an impersonator of The Shadow.

Through Cliff Marsland, an agent who knew the underworld, he had checked on the disappearance of Zutz, the look-out who had been at the Hilo Club.

From it, he would fare forth to further crime, impelled by his success at the Hilo Club.

In consequence of the Torreo affray, crooks had ceased their criticism of Louie Zutz, the lookout at the old Hilo Club.

The killer took the swag - all the haul that the first guy made from the Hilo and the Torreo.

Like the Hilo Club and the Club Torreo, four gambling places had been pillaged by a cloaked intruder whom the underworld declared must be The Shadow.

We sailed from Hilo, Hawaii, on October 7, and arrived at Nuka-hiva, in the Marquesas, on December 6.