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Panola, Oklahoma

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Red Oak census division. It lies in ZIP code area 74578. It stands on Dry Creek. The Survey maps it on the Panola quadrangle. 73 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 643 feet above sea level.

Panola within Latimer County

On record in Panola

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 19 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

332 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 332 fires within 5 miles of Panola between 1992 and 2020, burning about 16,385 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 144 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
Arson/incendiarism144
Missing data/not specified/undetermined89
Debris and open burning52
Equipment and vehicle use25
Natural6
Recreation and ceremony5
Railroad operations and maintenance5
Smoking4
Misuse of fire by a minor2

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 2004Debris and open burning3.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestry20355
5 September 2002Misuse of fire by a minor8.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
4 September 2005Debris and open burning3.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestry20403
30 September 2005Arson/incendiarismunder an acreOklahoma Division of Forestry20432
29 September 1994Missing data/not specified/undetermined13 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
27 September 2002Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
27 September 2001Equipment and vehicle use80 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
23 September 2017Debris and open burning1.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Latimer County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Panola: 5 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Flagstone. 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 Sandstone PitFlagstonePast Producer
Unknown Sandstone PitFlagstonePast Producer
Unknown Sandstone PitFlagstonePast Producer
Unknown Sandstone PitFlagstonePast Producer
Unknown Sandstone PitFlagstonePast Producer

Every working recorded in Latimer County

Storms near this place

28 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Panola in 28 storm reports between 1994 and 2023: 14 thunderstorm wind, 9 hail, 3 tornado, 2 flash 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
May 1999Tornado (F1)Panola$40,000An F1 tornado touched down south of Panola and moved northeast to the Latimer-Haskell county line. Ths tornado continued to a point in extreme southern Haskell County about 2 miles south of Lequire. Near Panola, this tornado blew down large trees and power lines, and it caused roof damage. After Panola, the tornado primarily affected sparsely-populated hilly terrain.
April 2009HailPanola$20,000no account filed
June 2023HailPanola$15,000Ping pong ball size hail damaged homes and vehicles.
December 2021Thunderstorm WindPanola$15,000Strong thunderstorm wind damaged the roof of a mobile home.
June 2017Thunderstorm WindPanola$5,000Strong thunderstorm wind damaged a barn in Panola, and snapped numerous large tree limbs across the county.
June 1996Thunderstorm WindPanola$3,000no account filed
June 1996Thunderstorm WindPanola$100no account filed
April 1996Thunderstorm WindPanola$100no account filed
September 1996Thunderstorm WindPanola$100no account filed
May 2015Tornado (EF0)Panola-This tornado snapped large tree limbs as it moved north. Based on this damage, maximum estimated wind in the tornado was 75 to 85 mph.
September 2014Thunderstorm WindPanola-Strong thunderstorm wind snapped large tree limbs.
April 2014Thunderstorm WindPanola-Strong thunderstorm wind blew down large tree limbs.
May 2011Tornado (EF1)Panola-A tornado snapped or uprooted a number of large trees in the San Bois Mountains. This area was not reachable by road and thus was surveyed by a citizen on an ATV who found hundreds of trees downed in multiple directions. The exact beginning point and end point could not be accessed but this tornado was on the ground for at least 2.5 miles.
April 2011Thunderstorm WindPanola-Several large trees were uprooted by strong thunderstorm winds.
May 2011Flash FloodPanola-Law enforcement reported several roads across the county were closed due to high water.
May 2009Thunderstorm WindPanola-Thunderstorm winds estimated at 60 miles an hour blew down several large tree limbs.
April 2004Thunderstorm WindPanola-Thunderstorm winds estimated at 70 miles an hour blew down a few trees.
June 1999Flash FloodPanola-US Hwy 270 near Panola was flooded.
June 1995Thunderstorm WindPanola-,,,,,,,,Thunderstorm Winds (G52)
July 1994Thunderstorm WindPanola-Severe thunderstorms moved rapidly southeast across eastern Oklahoma during the late evening of July 1st and early morning of July 2nd and produced widespread damaging winds. Strong thunderstorm winds blew down a 90-foot tower just west of Sapulpa and blew down street signs and a 2-foot diameter tree in Bristow. A roof was also blown off a building in Bristow, where winds were estimated at 60 to 70 mph. Trees, power lines, and power poles were downed in Salina by 65-mph winds, and 65-mph winds in Beggs downed trees, signs, and large tree limbs. Power poles and large tree limbs were downed by 60-mph winds 3 miles east of Bernice, and power lines were downed by 60-mph winds in Quinton. Strong thunderstorm winds downed numerous large tree limbs just south of Okmulgee and at Panola. Thunderstorm winds gusted to 82 mph at the mesonet automated observing site in Foraker and to 78 mph at the mesonet automated observing site in Wynona. Thunderstorm winds gusted to 80 mph at Pawhuska, and to 75 mph 5 miles west of Pawhuska and 3 miles northwest of Coweta. Thunderstorm winds gusted to 60 to 70 mph at numerous other locations throughout eastern Oklahoma.
June 2017HailPanola-no account filed
April 2011HailPanola-no account filed
April 2004HailPanola-no account filed
March 2002HailPanola-no account filed
May 2001HailPanola-no account filed
April 1999HailPanola-no account filed
March 1997HailPanola-no account filed
April 1995Thunderstorm WindPanola-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Latimer 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
Lutie2.6 miles15
Wilburton5.1 miles15
Center Point5.5 miles15
Damon7.1 miles16
Red Oak7.2 miles19
Degnan7.5 miles15
Veterans Colony9.7 miles16
Denman10.0 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 PanolaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3476480The 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 1096396. 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.