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.
Population over time
2 figuresPanola 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 144 | |
| 2020 | 71 | -73 (-51%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 8 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1953 USGS Meridian quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Meridian quadrangle1:250000
- 1965 USGS Meridian quadrangle1:250000
- 1973 USGS Panola quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1984 USGS De Kalb quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
18 since 1994Regional 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/undetermined | 6 |
| Debris and open burning | 4 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20 September 2000 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 18 September 2000 | Natural | 211 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 16 September 1997 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 13 September 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 24 August 2007 | Natural | 3.5 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 4 July 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Alabama Forestry Commission | NWR-20140704-002 |
| 3 April 1996 | Smoking | 25 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 6 March 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
11 since 1999Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 2009 | Flash Flood | Panola | $10,000 | Water was running over the roadway near the intersection of AL-17 and Panola Parkway. A home in the Geiger community was flooded. |
| April 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Panola | $5,000 | The roof was blown off a trailer in Panola. |
| February 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Panola | $3,000 | Several trees were blown down along CR-85, about a mile south of the Pickens County line. |
| May 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Panola | $2,000 | Several trees were blown down near Panola. |
| August 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Panola | $2,000 | Several trees were blown down on County Road 34, near Panola. |
| August 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Panola | $1,000 | Trees were knocked down near Panola. |
| February 2020 | Flash Flood | Panola | - | Highway 116 flooded and impassable west of the town of Gainesville. |
| April 2004 | Hail | Panola | - | Dime to penny size hail was reported in extreme northern Sumter County from near Panola to near Warsaw. |
| April 2004 | Hail | Panola | - | Penny size hail was observed near Panola and Warsaw. |
| July 2000 | Hail | Panola | - | Dime size hail was reported in Panola. |
| April 2012 | Hail | Panola | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fair Oaks | 1.2 miles | 8 | |
| Warsaw | 3.6 miles | 8 | |
| Geiger | 6.0 miles | 8 | |
| Gainesville | 10.7 miles | 8 | |
| Hamner | 14.3 miles | 8 | |
| Bethel (historical) | 15.2 miles | 8 | |
| Emelle | 15.5 miles | 8 | |
| Sumterville | 16.6 miles | 13 |
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 Panola | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q7131451 | The 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.




