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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.

Panaca within Lincoln County

Population over time

2 figures

Panaca 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.

YearPeople Change
2010963
2020870-93 (-10%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 16 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.

Photographs

2 photographs, 2022

Taken 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.

An old but still functioning garage and repair shop in the Southeast Nevada town of Panaca
An old but still functioning garage and repair shop in the Southeast Nevada town of Panaca
Highsmith, Carol M, 2022. Library of Congress
Roadside sign welcoming travelers to Nevada in the southeast corner of that western state at the Utah border, near Panaca
Roadside sign welcoming travelers to Nevada in the southeast corner of that western state at the Utah border, near Panaca
Highsmith, Carol M, 2022. Library of Congress

Fires near this place

57 since 1992

Regional 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
Natural38
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Arson/incendiarism6
Debris and open burning2
Smoking1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
9 September 2004Naturalunder an acreEly District OfficeDELMUERANC
9 September 1996Naturalunder an acreEly District OfficeBLACKHILL
8 September 1996Naturalunder an acreEly District OfficeEAGLE
5 September 1999Smokingunder an acreEly District OfficeKELLY
4 September 2001Naturalunder an acreEly District OfficeBLACK HILL
1 September 2003Naturalunder an acreEly District OfficeLEE
30 August 1998Natural3.0 acresEly District OfficePANACA
22 August 2013Naturalunder an acreEly District OfficeMEADOW

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lincoln 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 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Volcanic Ash DepositVolcanic Materials, SilicaPast ProducerAsh
White Sands Placer ClaimPumicePast Producer
Morgan and Bush Diatomite DepositDiatomitePast ProducerSedimentary
Panaca Diatomaceous Earth DepositDiatomitePast Producer
Panaca Warm SpringGeothermalProducer
Unnamed WellGeothermalProducer
Dorothy ClaimUraniumOccurrence
Pay Zone ClaimUraniumOccurrence
White Cloud ProspectUraniumProspect

Every working recorded in Lincoln County

Storms near this place

9 since 2005

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
September 2022Flash FloodPanaca$2,000Hwy 93 was flooded at Lincoln Co mile markers 105 and 109.
March 2023FloodPanaca$1,000Highway 319 was closed from Highway 93 to Panaca due to flooding of the Meadow Valley Wash.
August 2022Thunderstorm WindPanaca$1,000A large tree was blown down.
September 2011Flash FloodPanaca$1,000Water and debris flowed across Highway 93.
October 2010Flash FloodPanaca$1,000Debris was washing across Highway 93 at mile marker 109.
August 2013Flash FloodPanaca-Six inches of water flowed across Main Street in Panaca. Flooding also caused significant damage to crops on several farms west of Panaca.
August 2005Flash FloodPanaca-Meadow Valley Wash overflowed between Panaca and Caliente.
June 2015HailPanaca-no account filed
July 2013HailPanaca-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Lincoln 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
Bullionville (historical)1.3 miles16
Cold Spring3.3 miles16
Delmues (historical)6.5 miles16
Flat Nose8.5 miles16
Princeton (historical)8.6 miles19
Ninemile Rocks8.7 miles14
Prince8.8 miles19
Caselton Heights9.7 miles19

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 PanacaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q376311The 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.