Panaca, Nevada
16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 1978. It stands in the Pioche census division. It lies in ZIP code area 89042. It lies near The Little Hogback. The Survey maps it on the Panaca quadrangle. 870 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 4,728 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresPanaca fell from 963 to 870 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 | 963 | |
| 2020 | 870 | -93 (-10%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 16 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.
- 1885 USGS Pioche quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1886 USGS Pioche quadrangle1:250000
- 1921 USGS Ely Range quadrangle1:48000
- 1921 USGS NW 1/4 Panaca quadrangle1:48000
- 1954 USGS Caliente quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
- 1959 USGS Caliente quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1970 USGS Panaca quadrangle1:24000
- 1978 USGS Caliente quadrangle1:100000
Photographs
2 photographs, 2022Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.
Highsmith, Carol M, 2022. Library of Congress
Highsmith, Carol M, 2022. Library of Congress
Fires near this place
57 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 57 fires within 5 miles of Panaca between 1992 and 2019, burning about 1,867 acres in total. 38 started naturally. 6 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 |
|---|---|
| Natural | 38 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 9 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 6 |
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2004 | Natural | under an acre | Ely District Office | DELMUERANC |
| 9 September 1996 | Natural | under an acre | Ely District Office | BLACKHILL |
| 8 September 1996 | Natural | under an acre | Ely District Office | EAGLE |
| 5 September 1999 | Smoking | under an acre | Ely District Office | KELLY |
| 4 September 2001 | Natural | under an acre | Ely District Office | BLACK HILL |
| 1 September 2003 | Natural | under an acre | Ely District Office | LEE |
| 30 August 1998 | Natural | 3.0 acres | Ely District Office | PANACA |
| 22 August 2013 | Natural | under an acre | Ely District Office | MEADOW |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
9 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Panaca: 4 past producers, 2 occurrences, 2 producers, 1 prospect. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Uranium, Diatomite, Geothermal, Volcanic Materials, Silica. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Volcanic Ash Deposit | Volcanic Materials, Silica | Past Producer | Ash | |
| White Sands Placer Claim | Pumice | Past Producer | ||
| Morgan and Bush Diatomite Deposit | Diatomite | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Panaca Diatomaceous Earth Deposit | Diatomite | Past Producer | ||
| Panaca Warm Spring | Geothermal | Producer | ||
| Unnamed Well | Geothermal | Producer | ||
| Dorothy Claim | Uranium | Occurrence | ||
| Pay Zone Claim | Uranium | Occurrence | ||
| White Cloud Prospect | Uranium | Prospect |
Storms near this place
9 since 2005Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Panaca in 9 storm reports between 2005 and 2023: 5 flash flood, 2 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 2022 | Flash Flood | Panaca | $2,000 | Hwy 93 was flooded at Lincoln Co mile markers 105 and 109. |
| March 2023 | Flood | Panaca | $1,000 | Highway 319 was closed from Highway 93 to Panaca due to flooding of the Meadow Valley Wash. |
| August 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Panaca | $1,000 | A large tree was blown down. |
| September 2011 | Flash Flood | Panaca | $1,000 | Water and debris flowed across Highway 93. |
| October 2010 | Flash Flood | Panaca | $1,000 | Debris was washing across Highway 93 at mile marker 109. |
| August 2013 | Flash Flood | Panaca | - | Six inches of water flowed across Main Street in Panaca. Flooding also caused significant damage to crops on several farms west of Panaca. |
| August 2005 | Flash Flood | Panaca | - | Meadow Valley Wash overflowed between Panaca and Caliente. |
| June 2015 | Hail | Panaca | - | no account filed |
| July 2013 | Hail | Panaca | - | 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.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bullionville (historical) | 1.3 miles | 16 | |
| Cold Spring | 3.3 miles | 16 | |
| Delmues (historical) | 6.5 miles | 16 | |
| Flat Nose | 8.5 miles | 16 | |
| Princeton (historical) | 8.6 miles | 19 | |
| Ninemile Rocks | 8.7 miles | 14 | |
| Prince | 8.8 miles | 19 | |
| Caselton Heights | 9.7 miles | 19 |
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 Panaca | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q376311 | 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 847452. 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.







