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Panola, Alabama

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Panola-Geiger census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35477. The Survey maps it on the Panola quadrangle. 71 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 180 feet above sea level.

Panola within Sumter County

Population over time

2 figures

Panola fell from 144 to 71 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
2010144
202071-73 (-51%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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

18 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 18 fires within 5 miles of Panola between 1994 and 2014, burning about 333 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 2 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Debris and open burning4
Recreation and ceremony2
Natural2
Arson/incendiarism2
Smoking1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
20 September 2000Debris and open burning1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
18 September 2000Natural211 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
16 September 1997Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
13 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
24 August 2007Natural3.5 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
4 July 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry CommissionNWR-20140704-002
3 April 1996Smoking25 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
6 March 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sumter County

Storms near this place

11 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Panola in 11 storm reports between 1999 and 2020: 5 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 2 flash flood. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
September 2009Flash FloodPanola$10,000Water was running over the roadway near the intersection of AL-17 and Panola Parkway. A home in the Geiger community was flooded.
April 1999Thunderstorm WindPanola$5,000The roof was blown off a trailer in Panola.
February 2008Thunderstorm WindPanola$3,000Several trees were blown down along CR-85, about a mile south of the Pickens County line.
May 2009Thunderstorm WindPanola$2,000Several trees were blown down near Panola.
August 2008Thunderstorm WindPanola$2,000Several trees were blown down on County Road 34, near Panola.
August 2000Thunderstorm WindPanola$1,000Trees were knocked down near Panola.
February 2020Flash FloodPanola-Highway 116 flooded and impassable west of the town of Gainesville.
April 2004HailPanola-Dime to penny size hail was reported in extreme northern Sumter County from near Panola to near Warsaw.
April 2004HailPanola-Penny size hail was observed near Panola and Warsaw.
July 2000HailPanola-Dime size hail was reported in Panola.
April 2012HailPanola-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Sumter 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
Fair Oaks1.2 miles8
Warsaw3.6 miles8
Geiger6.0 miles8
Gainesville10.7 miles8
Hamner14.3 miles8
Bethel (historical)15.2 miles8
Emelle15.5 miles8
Sumterville16.6 miles13

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 Q7131451The 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 124400. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.