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One of 10 National Register listings published here for Wakulla County · listed in 2022 · category: Site.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Panacea Mineral Springs
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2022. 8 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1940.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 7 structuress as contributing to the listing.
- Address. Coastal Hwy., US 98, Panacea, 32346
- When was it listed? November 2022
- Category. site
- Census division. West Wakulla
- National Register reference number. 100008423 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Then and now
1940 to 1954The ground this property stands on, surveyed 14 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
Fires near this property
148 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 148 fires within 5 miles of Panacea Mineral Springs between 1992 and 2020, burning about 7,386 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 | 18 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 12 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 12 |
| Smoking | 4 |
| Other causes | 4 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 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 |
Mines and quarries near this property
3 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Panacea Mineral Springs: 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 property
8 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Panacea, the town this property stands in, 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. |
Maps showing this location
8 surveysUnited States Geological Survey topographic sheets whose coverage includes this point. Matched by taking the coordinate the National Park Service records for this property, then testing that coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet.
- 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
Listed places nearby
3 within 8 milesOther National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.
| Photograph | Property | Distance | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Sopchoppy Depot | 6.3 miles | 2017 |
 | Sopchoppy High School Gymnasium, Old | 6.3 miles | 1990 |
 | Sopchoppy School | 6.5 miles | 2001 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100008423 in Record Group 79. |
| Wakulla County | All 10 listed properties in this county. |
Provenance
- Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
- Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
- How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
- 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.