In July 1941, five months before the attack on Pearl Harbor, Commander Thomas C Latimore from USS Dobbin, vanished while walking in the hills above Aiea. At the end of the 19th century, a sugarcane plantation was opened in the district by the Honolulu Plantation Company. It stretched from ʻAiea Bay (part of Pearl Harbor) into the mountains to the north. The name was derived from a species of plant in the nightshade family, Nothocestrum latifolium. "ʻAiea" was originally the name of an ahupuaʻa, or Hawaiian land division.
Historically, ʻAiea was an ahupuaʻa, or area of land ruled by chief or king and managed by the members of the ʻaliʻi. Residents of the census-designated places (CDP) of Waimalu and Hālawa use Aiea in their postal address. The communities of Newtown Estates and Royal Summit are located at the western edge of Aiea near its border with Pearl City at Kaahumanu Street. The residential area known as Aiea Heights extends up the ridgeline above the town. These east–west routes (and other streets, such as Moanalua Road) connect Aiea to Pearl City, immediately adjacent on the west, and Halawa, adjacent on the east. Kamehameha Highway (Hawaii Route 99) divides most of Aiea from the shore of Pearl Harbor (mostly US government property), and the parallel major thoroughfare, Interstate H-1, further cuts the town's commercial district into two distinct areas. According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of 1.8 square miles (4.7 km 2), of which, 1.6 square miles (4.1 km 2) of it is land and 0.1 square miles (0.26 km 2) of it (5.71%) is water. As of the 2010 Census, the CDP had a total population of 9,338. Aiea ( / aɪ ˈ eɪ ə/ Hawaiian: ʻAiea, pronounced ) is a census-designated place (CDP) located in the City and County of Honolulu, Hawaii, United States.
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