Panora, Iowa
11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 1993. It stands in Cass Township. It lies in ZIP code area 50216. The Survey maps it on the Panora quadrangle. 1,091 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,076 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresPanora fell from 1,124 to 1,091 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 | 1,124 | |
| 2020 | 1,091 | -33 (-3%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 11 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.
- 1952 USGS Panora quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1954 USGS Omaha quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Omaha quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Omaha quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1982 USGS Panora quadrangle1:24000
- 1984 USGS Guthrie Center quadrangle1:100000
- 1993 USGS Guthrie Center quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
4 since 2009Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Panora between 2009 and 2020, burning about 230 acres in total. None started naturally. None was 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 16 August 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 45 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 3 April 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 105 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 28 April 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 80 acres | Iowa Wetland Management District | BAYS BRANCH |
| 15 November 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Iowa Wetland Management District | WINTERS |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
4 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Panora: 3 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Monteith Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Spring Brook Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
31 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Panora in 31 storm reports between 1998 and 2015: 17 hail, 10 thunderstorm wind, 3 flash flood, 1 lightning. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Panora | $150,000 | no account filed |
| June 2007 | Flash Flood | Panora | $100,000 | no account filed |
| April 2002 | Hail | Panora | $25,000 | no account filed |
| April 2004 | Hail | Panora | $20,000 | no account filed |
| April 2002 | Hail | Panora | $20,000 | no account filed |
| June 2011 | Lightning | Panora | $15,000 | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Hail | Panora | $15,000 | no account filed |
| July 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Panora | $15,000 | no account filed |
| July 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Panora | $15,000 | no account filed |
| April 2009 | Flash Flood | Panora | $10,000 | Water reported over 195th Street. |
| July 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Panora | $10,000 | Tree damage also reported. |
| July 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Panora | $10,000 | Tree damage also reported. |
| June 2015 | Hail | Panora | $10,000 | no account filed |
| April 2004 | Hail | Panora | $10,000 | no account filed |
| July 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Panora | $10,000 | no account filed |
| June 2010 | Flash Flood | Panora | $5,000 | Seely Creek was out of its banks near the confluence of the South Raccoon. A few roads were inundated a few feet by the rising water. |
| June 2015 | Hail | Panora | $5,000 | no account filed |
| June 2015 | Hail | Panora | $5,000 | no account filed |
| April 2004 | Hail | Panora | $5,000 | no account filed |
| June 2010 | Hail | Panora | $3,000 | Four inches of rain also reported. |
| April 2002 | Hail | Panora | $3,000 | no account filed |
| April 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Panora | $2,000 | no account filed |
| April 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Panora | $2,000 | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Panora | $1,000 | no account filed |
| June 2015 | Hail | Panora | - | Emergency Manager reported 1.75 inch hail along highway 44. |
| September 2008 | Hail | Panora | - | no account filed |
| September 2008 | Hail | Panora | - | no account filed |
| May 2005 | Hail | Panora | - | no account filed |
| April 2004 | Hail | Panora | - | no account filed |
| July 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Panora | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Hail | Panora | - | no account filed |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lake Panorama | 2.0 miles | 11 | |
| Monteith | 5.4 miles | 11 | |
| Yale | 5.9 miles | 10 | |
| Fanslers | 6.3 miles | 11 | |
| Dale | 6.7 miles | 11 | |
| Morrisburgh (historical) | 6.8 miles | 11 | |
| Glendon | 7.0 miles | 11 | |
| Guthrie Center | 7.5 miles | 9 |
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 Panora | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1926254 | 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 460010. 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.






