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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.

Panacea 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, surveyed 1988
Topographic sheet of Panacea, surveyed 1940

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

Population over time

2 figures

Panacea 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.

YearPeople Change
2010816
2020735-81 (-10%)

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

148 since 1992

Regional 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 burning46
Natural24
Missing data/not specified/undetermined20
Railroad operations and maintenance17
Arson/incendiarism12
Equipment and vehicle use12
Recreation and ceremony5
Smoking4
Other causes4
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: 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

8 since 1993

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
January 2022Thunderstorm WindPanacea-A few trees were blown down in the Bottom Road area.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindPanacea-The public estimated wind gusts near 60 mph on the north end of Panacea.
August 2015Thunderstorm WindPanacea-A tree was blown down on Hardee Road.
May 2012HailPanacea-Dime sized hail was reported on Dickson Bay Road.
August 2012Heavy RainPanacea-The broadcast media relayed a viewer report of 3.62 inches of rain since 10 am in Panacea.
December 2009FloodPanacea-Flooding was reported across Bottoms Road from U.S. Highway 98 to Normans Way. Water was up to one foot deep.
August 2007HailPanacea-Penny size hail was reported on U.S. Highway 98 near the Ochlockonee Bay.
October 1993Tornado (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.

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
Panacea Park0.8 miles14
Skipper1.6 miles14
Medart3.1 miles14
Buckhorn4.0 miles14
Surf4.0 miles17
Spring Creek4.4 miles14
Tully4.6 miles14
Ashmore5.5 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.

Wikipedia article on PanaceaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5306283The 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.