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Panna Maria, Texas

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Gillett census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78144. It stands on Lake Slough. The Survey maps it on the Karnes City quadrangle.

Panna Maria within Karnes County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 9 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

132 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 132 fires within 5 miles of Panna Maria between 2005 and 2020, burning about 474 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 2 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
Equipment and vehicle use54
Debris and open burning35
Missing data/not specified/undetermined27
Power generation/transmission/distribution6
Smoking4
Arson/incendiarism2
Natural2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
29 September 2006Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
23 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceTXDOT US181/CR219
23 September 2006Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
22 September 2006Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
2 September 2008Debris and open burning5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
17 September 2008Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
13 September 2008Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
10 September 2006Debris and open burning10 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Karnes County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 12 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 12 workings within 5 miles of Panna Maria: 6 producers, 4 past producers, 2 occurrences. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Uranium, Molybdenum, Selenium. 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
Panna Maria East MineUranium, Molybdenum, SeleniumPast ProducerStratabound
Panna Maria West MineUranium, Molybdenum, SeleniumPast ProducerStratabound
Brysch PitUraniumProducer
Brysch ProspectUraniumOccurrenceStratabound
Ft Worth Natl PitUraniumProducer
Jaskinia ProspectUraniumOccurrenceStratabound
Kopecki MineUraniumPast ProducerStratabound
Kotzur MineUraniumPast ProducerStratabound
Kotzur PitUraniumProducer
Labus-MoczygembaUraniumProducer

Every working recorded in Karnes County

Storms near this place

2 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Panna Maria in 2 storm reports between 2000 and 2018: 1 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
April 2000HailPanna Maria$30,000Large hail, driven by strong winds, caused widespread damage to windows of homes and vehicles in and around Panna Maria. Damage was also reported to gardens and crops in the area.
February 2018Thunderstorm WindPanna Maria-A thunderstorm produced wind gusts estimated at 60 mph that blew down some power lines near Panna Maria.

Every storm recorded in Karnes 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
Mayo3.9 miles9
Helena3.9 miles9
Cestohowa4.1 miles10
Hobson4.7 miles9
Karnes City5.1 miles9
Falls City6.6 miles12
Pawelekville6.8 miles10
Harmony7.7 miles10

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 Panna MariaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4115369The 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 1364749. 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.