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Panacea Park, Florida

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1940 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the West Wakulla census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32346. The Survey maps it on the Sopchoppy quadrangle.

Panacea Park within Wakulla County

Then and now

1940 to 1988

The same ground, surveyed 48 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Panacea Park, surveyed 1988
Topographic sheet of Panacea Park, surveyed 1940

Compare 1940 against another survey:

On record in Panacea Park

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 14 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

154 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 154 fires within 5 miles of Panacea Park between 1992 and 2020, burning about 7,402 acres in total. 23 started naturally. 13 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 burning48
Natural23
Missing data/not specified/undetermined22
Railroad operations and maintenance19
Arson/incendiarism13
Equipment and vehicle use13
Other causes5
Recreation and ceremony4
Smoking3
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Fireworks1

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
5 September 2007Smoking1.9 acresFlorida Forest Service(65) DRIFTWOOD DR FIRE
28 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSt. Marks National Wildlife RefugeRD 321
26 September 2016Debris and open burning1.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceMASHES SAND 2 (65)
24 September 2014Natural1.3 acresSt. Marks National Wildlife RefugePURIFY BAY FIRE
20 August 1993Natural7.0 acresSt. Marks National Wildlife RefugeJOE
2 August 1999Debris and open burning2.6 acresSt. Marks National Wildlife RefugeBOTTOMS
12 August 2006Fireworksunder an acreNational Forests in FloridaLOBSTER
8 July 2007Debris and open burning53 acresSt. Marks National Wildlife RefugeSMITH ROAD FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Wakulla County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Panacea Park: 2 past producers, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Sand. 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
Millender Trucking & Land Clearing - Millender MineSandUnknownSand
Panacea PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Wakulla PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Wakulla County

Storms near this place

2 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Panacea Park in 2 storm reports between 2012 and 2020: 1 heavy rain, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
April 2020Thunderstorm WindPanacea Park-Station PRWF1 measured a wind gust of 59 knots.
August 2012Heavy RainPanacea Park-A 24 hour rainfall total of 3.02 inches was recorded at RAWS site PRWF1.

Every storm recorded in Wakulla 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
Panacea0.8 miles14
Skipper2.4 miles14
Surf3.3 miles17
Medart3.8 miles14
Buckhorn3.8 miles14
Spring Creek5.2 miles14
Sopchoppy5.2 miles14
Tully5.3 miles14

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.

Wikidata item Q122572046The 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 306196. 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.

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.