Panola, Illinois
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1995. It stands in Panola Township. It lies in ZIP code area 61738. It stands on Little Panther Creek. The Survey maps it on the Benson quadrangle. 47 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 737 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresPanola grew from 45 to 47 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 | 45 | |
| 2020 | 47 | +2 (+4%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 12 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.
- 1955 USGS Minonk quadrangle1:62500
- 1958 USGS Peoria quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1961 USGS Peoria quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS Peoria quadrangle1:250000
- 1983 USGS Benson quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Peoria quadrangle1:100000
- 1989 USGS Peoria quadrangle1:100000
- 1990 USGS Peoria quadrangle1:250000
- 1995 USGS Benson quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
2 since 2010Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Panola in 2010, burning about 6 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 |
|---|---|
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 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 April 2010 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | 51021 |
| 14 October 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | 141066 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
2 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Panola: 1 unknown, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Phosphorus-Phosphates, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| El Paso Fertilizer Co. | Phosphorus-Phosphates | Unknown | ||
| Panola Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Storms near this place
6 since 2013Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Panola in 6 storm reports between 2013 and 2023: 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 1 hail, 1 flash 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2020 | Tornado (EF0) | Panola | $20,000 | A tornado touched down 1.1 miles southwest of Panola at 1:54 PM CDT. The tornado tracked northeastward through the small community of Panola damaging the roof of an outbuilding, cracking a window in a house, and knocking down several tree branches before dissipating 2.3 miles northeast of Panola at 1:59 PM CDT. |
| May 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Panola | $2,000 | A tree was blown down. |
| September 2019 | Flash Flood | Panola | - | Excessive rainfall of 4 to 9 inches created flash flooding near Roanoke. Ten inches of water flowed across Highway 116 just west of Roanoke as ditches flooded and overflowed. Several families near Roanoke were evacuated from their homes due to rising water. |
| May 2014 | Tornado (EF0) | Panola | - | A landspout tornado touched down in a field 1.9 miles NNE of El Paso at 1:40 PM CDT. The tornado was on the ground for 10 minutes before dissipating at 1:50 PM CDT. No damage was reported. |
| May 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Panola | - | no account filed |
| April 2017 | Hail | Panola | - | 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.
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 Panola | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2193133 | 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 415345. 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.








