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Panola, South Carolina

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Summerton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29125. It stands on Chapel Creek. The Survey maps it on the Pinewood quadrangle.

Panola within Clarendon County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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

327 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 327 fires within 5 miles of Panola between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,528 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 56 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
Debris and open burning132
Missing data/not specified/undetermined110
Arson/incendiarism56
Equipment and vehicle use19
Smoking4
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Recreation and ceremony1
Natural1

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
8 September 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 1999Arson/incendiarism35 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 1999Smoking4.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 2001Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
25 September 2010Smokingunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 2009Arson/incendiarism15 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clarendon County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Panola: 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay. 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
Hills-LabruceClayUnknownSedimentary

Every working recorded in Clarendon County

Storms near this place

4 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Panola in 4 storm reports between 2011 and 2023: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 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
June 2011Thunderstorm WindPanola$4,000Public reported several trees down around Governer Richardson road and Old River road.
May 2014Thunderstorm WindPanola$3,000Highway Patrol reported trees down at the St. Philips Church on Church Road.
September 2016Flash FloodPanola$1,000Reported flooding at Panola Road and Hardwood Drive.
August 2023Thunderstorm WindPanola-SCDOT reported a tree down on Panola Road.

Every storm recorded in Clarendon 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
Belser Crossroads3.2 miles15
Silver3.2 miles14
Summerton4.6 miles13
Rimini4.8 miles13
Saint Paul5.5 miles15
Paxville6.4 miles14
Davis Crossroads7.3 miles13
Halleytown7.7 miles14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1231625. 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.