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Panola, Georgia

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1999. It stands in the Atlanta-Decatur census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30294. It stands on Snapfinger Creek. The Survey maps it on the Redan quadrangle.

Panola within DeKalb County

On record in Panola

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

Surveyed buildings and structures 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 23 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.

Photographs

1 photograph,

Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.

Latimer-Felton House, Atlanta Vicinity, Panola, Dekalb County, GA
Latimer-Felton House, Atlanta Vicinity, Panola, Dekalb County, GA
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress

Fires near this place

117 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 117 fires within 5 miles of Panola between 1992 and 2020, burning about 323 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 33 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 burning53
Arson/incendiarism33
Misuse of fire by a minor14
Smoking8
Equipment and vehicle use3
Natural3
Recreation and ceremony3

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
23 September 2020Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2021HENRY001
17 September 2019Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2020DEKALB001
15 September 1993Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
12 September 1993Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
10 September 1998Smoking1.3 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
24 August 1996Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
2 August 1993Arson/incendiarism2.8 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
19 August 1993Debris and open burning2.8 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in DeKalb County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Panola: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Granite. 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
North Georgia QuarryGraniteProducer

Every working recorded in DeKalb County

Storms near this place

3 since 2020

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Panola in 3 storm reports between 2020 and 2026: 3 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 WindPanola$8,000Trees and wires down at Brookstone Drive and Flakes Mill Road.
March 2026Thunderstorm WindPanola$1,000Emergency manager reports a tree down near the intersection of panola road and snapfinger road.
August 2024Thunderstorm WindPanola$1,000Tree down on home along 3800 block of brookstone way.

Every storm recorded in DeKalb 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
Miners Creek0.6 miles23
Cumberland Green1.6 miles23
Raiders Ridge1.7 miles23
Burlington1.9 miles23
Sheffield Woods2.0 miles23
Royal Oaks2.0 miles23
Stonehenge2.1 miles23
Dogwood Hills2.2 miles23

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 332599. 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.