Panacea, 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. It lies near Hopkins Island. The Survey maps it on the Sopchoppy quadrangle. 735 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 7 feet above sea level.
Then and now
1940 to 1988The 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.


Compare 1940 against another survey:
On record in Panacea
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 1 record
Panacea Mineral Springslisted 2022
Population over time
2 figuresPanacea fell from 816 to 735 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 | 816 | |
| 2020 | 735 | -81 (-10%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 14 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.
- 1940 USGS Arran quadrangle1:62500
- 1943 USGS Arran quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1954 USGS Tallahassee quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1959 USGS Tallahassee quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Tallahassee quadrangle1:250000
- 1972 USGS Sopchoppy quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1979 USGS Tallahassee quadrangle1:100000
- 1988 USGS Tallahassee quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
148 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 148 fires within 5 miles of Panacea between 1992 and 2020, burning about 7,379 acres in total. 24 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 burning | 46 |
| Natural | 24 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 20 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 17 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 12 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 12 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 5 |
| Smoking | 4 |
| Other causes | 4 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Fireworks | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 September 2007 | Smoking | 1.9 acres | Florida Forest Service | (65) DRIFTWOOD DR FIRE |
| 28 September 2000 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | St. Marks National Wildlife Refuge | RD 321 |
| 26 September 2016 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | MASHES SAND 2 (65) |
| 24 September 2014 | Natural | 1.3 acres | St. Marks National Wildlife Refuge | PURIFY BAY FIRE |
| 20 August 1993 | Natural | 7.0 acres | St. Marks National Wildlife Refuge | JOE |
| 2 August 1999 | Debris and open burning | 2.6 acres | St. Marks National Wildlife Refuge | BOTTOMS |
| 12 August 2006 | Fireworks | under an acre | National Forests in Florida | LOBSTER |
| 8 July 2007 | Debris and open burning | 53 acres | St. Marks National Wildlife Refuge | SMITH ROAD FIRE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
3 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Panacea: 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Millender Trucking & Land Clearing - Millender Mine | Sand | Unknown | Sand | |
| Panacea Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Wakulla Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
8 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Panacea in 8 storm reports between 1993 and 2022: 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 tornado, 1 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Panacea | - | A few trees were blown down in the Bottom Road area. |
| July 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Panacea | - | The public estimated wind gusts near 60 mph on the north end of Panacea. |
| August 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Panacea | - | A tree was blown down on Hardee Road. |
| May 2012 | Hail | Panacea | - | Dime sized hail was reported on Dickson Bay Road. |
| August 2012 | Heavy Rain | Panacea | - | The broadcast media relayed a viewer report of 3.62 inches of rain since 10 am in Panacea. |
| December 2009 | Flood | Panacea | - | Flooding was reported across Bottoms Road from U.S. Highway 98 to Normans Way. Water was up to one foot deep. |
| August 2007 | Hail | Panacea | - | Penny size hail was reported on U.S. Highway 98 near the Ochlockonee Bay. |
| October 1993 | Tornado (F0) | Panacea | - | A waterspout touched down in the Okhlocknee River and moved ashore ripping the roof off a vacation home and damaging a screen porch. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Panacea Park | 0.8 miles | 14 | |
| Skipper | 1.6 miles | 14 | |
| Medart | 3.1 miles | 14 | |
| Buckhorn | 4.0 miles | 14 | |
| Surf | 4.0 miles | 17 | |
| Spring Creek | 4.4 miles | 14 | |
| Tully | 4.6 miles | 14 | |
| Ashmore | 5.5 miles | 14 |
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 Panacea | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q5306283 | 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 306195. 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.







