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Panama, Missouri

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Osage Township. It lies in ZIP code area 64779. The Survey maps it on the Rich Hill quadrangle.

Panama within Vernon County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 17 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.

In the county-history sources

4,836 words on this township

History of Vernon County, Missouri : Past and Present, Including an Account of the Cities, Towns and Villages of the County, published 1911 names this settlement in its chapter on Osage Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

Panama, a coal mining town located on section 29, range 37, township 31, was a prosperous community owfing to the extra thickness of the local veins of coal. But after these had been thoroughly worked and some bad fires had swept over the town it had a setback, though at the present time it is quite a shippingpoint and new discoveries of oil and other natural products have been made ; there is considerable interest being taken in this part of the county.

Passage source: History of Vernon County, Missouri : Past and Present, Including an Account of the Cities, Towns and Villages of the County, published 1911.

Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.

Read the whole chapter on Osage Township.

Fires near this place

9 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Panama between 2011 and 2020, burning about 166 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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 burning3
Arson/incendiarism2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Equipment and vehicle use1
Smoking1

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
29 March 2020Smoking2.4 acresMissouri Department of Conservation190343-00703-03292020-1410
13 March 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined12 acresMissouri Department of Conservation176443-00748-03132018-1850
4 February 2017Debris and open burning10 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
21 February 2017Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
16 February 2017Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
10 February 2017Debris and open burning25 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
1 November 2011Debris and open burning30 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
31 January 2017Arson/incendiarism70 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Vernon County

Mines and quarries near this place

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Panama: 8 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Unknown - Ls.Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - Ls.Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Williamson Quarry No.4Stone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Unknown - S&GSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown - S&GSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown - S&GSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown - S&GSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown - S&GSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown - S&GSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Vernon 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
Carbon Center1.8 miles17
Arthur2.5 miles17
Horton5.0 miles19
Metz5.8 miles20
Blaine6.9 miles20
Ketterman7.1 miles19
Rock8.2 miles19
Rocky Ford (historical)8.5 miles17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 729942. 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.