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Panama, Nebraska

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1897 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Panama precinct. It lies in ZIP code area 68419. The Survey maps it on the Firth quadrangle. 235 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,394 feet above sea level.

Panama within Lancaster County

Population over time

2 figures

Panama fell from 256 to 235 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
2010256
2020235-21 (-8%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 14 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

38 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 38 fires within 5 miles of Panama between 2007 and 2020, burning about 171 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
Debris and open burning27
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Equipment and vehicle use2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
20 September 2010Debris and open burning1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
29 August 2012Misuse of fire by a minor1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
19 August 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
29 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
14 June 2013Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
13 June 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
10 June 2018Debris and open burning10 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
10 June 2018Equipment and vehicle use10 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lancaster County

Storms near this place

17 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Panama in 17 storm reports between 1996 and 2020: 10 hail, 3 flash flood, 2 thunderstorm wind, 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
May 1996Flash FloodPanama$1,500,000no account filed
August 2000LightningPanama$15,000A Building that was used for storage was struck by lightning and destroyed. The lightning strike occurred sometime late on 8/25/00 or early 08/26/00.
June 2020FloodPanama-Trained spotter reported the creek in the area was out of its bank.
April 2012Flash FloodPanama-Heavy rain caused flash flooding over a bridge on Highway 43 east of Firth. There was a report of 3.75 inches of rain in the area from storms this day. Damage was apparently minimal.
March 2009Thunderstorm WindPanama-Thunderstorm winds estimated at close to 60 mph blew the walls out of a machine shed.
April 2017HailPanama-no account filed
April 2017HailPanama-no account filed
May 2015HailPanama-no account filed
September 2010HailPanama-no account filed
June 2008HailPanama-no account filed
September 2008HailPanama-no account filed
March 2007HailPanama-no account filed
May 2005HailPanama-no account filed
June 2004HailPanama-no account filed
June 2003HailPanama-no account filed
September 1998Thunderstorm WindPanama-no account filed
May 1996Flash FloodPanama-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Lancaster 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
Pella (historical)3.2 miles14
Holland4.3 miles14
Bennet5.7 miles15
Hickman6.5 miles15
Firth6.8 miles14
Roca8.8 miles15
Hanlon9.5 miles15
Cheney9.9 miles15

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 PanamaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3287934The 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 831963. 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.

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.