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.
Population over time
2 figuresPanama 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 256 | |
| 2020 | 235 | -21 (-8%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 14 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.
- 1897 USGS Lincoln quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
- 1955 USGS Lincoln quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
- 1957 USGS Lincoln quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Lincoln quadrangle1:250000
- 1965 USGS Firth quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Lincoln quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
38 since 2007Regional 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 burning | 27 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 6 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 1 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20 September 2010 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 29 August 2012 | Misuse of fire by a minor | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 19 August 2019 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 29 July 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 14 June 2013 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 13 June 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 10 June 2018 | Debris and open burning | 10 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 10 June 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | 10 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
17 since 1996Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 1996 | Flash Flood | Panama | $1,500,000 | no account filed |
| August 2000 | Lightning | Panama | $15,000 | A 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 2020 | Flood | Panama | - | Trained spotter reported the creek in the area was out of its bank. |
| April 2012 | Flash Flood | Panama | - | 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 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Panama | - | Thunderstorm winds estimated at close to 60 mph blew the walls out of a machine shed. |
| April 2017 | Hail | Panama | - | no account filed |
| April 2017 | Hail | Panama | - | no account filed |
| May 2015 | Hail | Panama | - | no account filed |
| September 2010 | Hail | Panama | - | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Hail | Panama | - | no account filed |
| September 2008 | Hail | Panama | - | no account filed |
| March 2007 | Hail | Panama | - | no account filed |
| May 2005 | Hail | Panama | - | no account filed |
| June 2004 | Hail | Panama | - | no account filed |
| June 2003 | Hail | Panama | - | no account filed |
| September 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Panama | - | no account filed |
| May 1996 | Flash Flood | Panama | - | 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 Panama | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q3287934 | 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 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.





