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Panola, Texas

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the De Berry-Deadwood census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75639. The Survey maps it on the Panola quadrangle. It stands 318 feet above sea level.

Panola within Panola County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 15 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

175 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 175 fires within 5 miles of Panola between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,164 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 14 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 burning77
Missing data/not specified/undetermined48
Arson/incendiarism14
Equipment and vehicle use13
Natural8
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Smoking3
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Recreation and ceremony2
Fireworks1
Other causes1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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 2013Debris and open burning50 acresTexas A & M Forest Service6304
9 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE LOS ALTOS
9 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined89 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 230
9 September 1998Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
8 September 2011Debris and open burning3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceRABBIT ROAD COMMAND
8 September 1999Natural10 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
6 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
4 September 2005Debris and open burning100 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 213

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Panola County

Storms near this place

14 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Panola in 14 storm reports between 1993 and 2023: 9 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 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
February 1993HailPanola$50,000Hail damaged some cars.
June 2023Thunderstorm WindPanola-Trees and power lines downed throughout Panola County.
June 2023Thunderstorm WindPanola-Several large trees downed across U.S. Highway 79 in the Panola area.
May 2022Thunderstorm WindPanola-Trees reported down in DeBerry.
July 2022Thunderstorm WindPanola-A tree was downed along Highway 79 near Bethany.
January 2020Thunderstorm WindPanola-Two small pine trees had their trunks snapped by straight line winds estimated near 70 mph.
October 2019Thunderstorm WindPanola-A tree was blown down onto power lines on County Road 328.
October 2019Thunderstorm WindPanola-Trees and power lines were downed in the Panola community.
March 2018HailPanola-Golfball size hail fell near the Deberry community.
October 2018Thunderstorm WindPanola-Several trees were downed on FM 9 in the Panola community.
November 2018Flash FloodPanola-Highway 79 was flooded and closed between County Road 328 and County Road 3371 near the DeBerry community.
April 1994HailPanola-Numerous trees were blown down by high winds.
June 1998Thunderstorm WindPanola-no account filed
April 1994HailPanola-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Panola 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
Bethany2.8 miles15
De Berry5.5 miles13
DeBerry5.5 miles13
Centennial9.2 miles17
Midyett9.4 miles17
Horton10.9 miles13
River Hill11.2 miles17
Grand Bluff14.6 miles13

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 Q7131450The 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 1343515. 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.

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.