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Panola, Alabama

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Petrey-Highland Home census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36046. The Survey maps it on the Danielsville quadrangle. It stands 614 feet above sea level.

Panola within Crenshaw County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 7 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

Fires near this place

86 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 86 fires within 5 miles of Panola between 1994 and 2020, burning about 396 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 12 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Debris and open burning28
Missing data/not specified/undetermined25
Arson/incendiarism12
Recreation and ceremony5
Railroad operations and maintenance5
Equipment and vehicle use4
Natural2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Smoking2
Other causes1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
27 September 2014Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionSER-20140927-001
20 September 2004Debris and open burning1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
5 August 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry CommissionSER-20120805-001
29 August 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry CommissionECR-20140829-003
16 August 1995Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
14 August 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry CommissionECR-20140814-001
28 July 1995Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
26 July 1998Natural1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Crenshaw County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Panola: 5 unknowns, 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Cre 3 Clay ProspectClayPast Producer
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown

Every working recorded in Crenshaw County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Danielsville3.6 miles7
Highland Home4.2 miles8
Clearview4.9 miles11
Magnolia Shores5.7 miles8
Sardis6.1 miles8
Saville7.2 miles8
Honoraville8.4 miles7
Garnersville9.0 miles8

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on PanolaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7131448The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 124399. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.