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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.

Panora within Guthrie County

Population over time

2 figures

Panora 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.

YearPeople Change
20101,124
20201,091-33 (-3%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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

4 since 2009

Regional 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/undetermined4

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
16 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined45 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 April 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined105 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
28 April 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined80 acresIowa Wetland Management DistrictBAYS BRANCH
15 November 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIowa Wetland Management DistrictWINTERS

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Guthrie County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Monteith PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Spring Brook PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Guthrie County

Storms near this place

31 since 1998

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2002Thunderstorm WindPanora$150,000no account filed
June 2007Flash FloodPanora$100,000no account filed
April 2002HailPanora$25,000no account filed
April 2004HailPanora$20,000no account filed
April 2002HailPanora$20,000no account filed
June 2011LightningPanora$15,000no account filed
May 2004HailPanora$15,000no account filed
July 2002Thunderstorm WindPanora$15,000no account filed
July 2002Thunderstorm WindPanora$15,000no account filed
April 2009Flash FloodPanora$10,000Water reported over 195th Street.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindPanora$10,000Tree damage also reported.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindPanora$10,000Tree damage also reported.
June 2015HailPanora$10,000no account filed
April 2004HailPanora$10,000no account filed
July 2000Thunderstorm WindPanora$10,000no account filed
June 2010Flash FloodPanora$5,000Seely 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 2015HailPanora$5,000no account filed
June 2015HailPanora$5,000no account filed
April 2004HailPanora$5,000no account filed
June 2010HailPanora$3,000Four inches of rain also reported.
April 2002HailPanora$3,000no account filed
April 2006Thunderstorm WindPanora$2,000no account filed
April 2001Thunderstorm WindPanora$2,000no account filed
June 2005Thunderstorm WindPanora$1,000no account filed
June 2015HailPanora-Emergency Manager reported 1.75 inch hail along highway 44.
September 2008HailPanora-no account filed
September 2008HailPanora-no account filed
May 2005HailPanora-no account filed
April 2004HailPanora-no account filed
July 2003Thunderstorm WindPanora-no account filed
June 1998HailPanora-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Guthrie 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
Lake Panorama2.0 miles11
Monteith5.4 miles11
Yale5.9 miles10
Fanslers6.3 miles11
Dale6.7 miles11
Morrisburgh (historical)6.8 miles11
Glendon7.0 miles11
Guthrie Center7.5 miles9

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 PanoraAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1926254The 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.