Toledo, Georgia

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1918 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the St. George census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31562. It stands on Harris Creek. The Survey maps it on the Toledo quadrangle.

Toledo within Charlton County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 12 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.

1918 USGS Moniac quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1942 USGS Moniac quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1954 USGS Valdosta quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Valdosta quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Valdosta quadrangle1:250000
1966 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1980 USGS Okefenokee Swamp quadrangle1:100000
1994 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

180 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 180 fires within 5 miles of Toledo between 1992 and 2020, burning about 9,031 acres in total. 87 started naturally. 15 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
Natural	87
Debris and open burning	43
Arson/incendiarism	15
Equipment and vehicle use	12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10
Railroad operations and maintenance	8
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Other causes	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Smoking	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
29 September 2009	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
22 September 2001	Natural	1.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named
20 September 2018	Natural	4.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	CYPRESS 92 (45)
2 September 2012	Natural	9.6 acres	Florida Forest Service	POWERLINE 2 (45)
14 September 2018	Natural	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2019CHARLTON002
11 September 2013	Natural	7.2 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2014-CHARLTON-003
9 August 2000	Natural	22 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2001-CHARLTON-011
8 August 1998	Natural	1.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Saint George

Every fire recorded in Charlton County

Storms near this place

1 since 2019

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Toledo in 1 storm report in 2019: 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
March 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Toledo	$500	A tree was blown down across Highway 121 near mile marker 7. The cost of damage was unknown, but it was estimated for Storm Data inclusion.

Every storm recorded in Charlton 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Saint George	8.0 miles	13
Stanley Landing	8.2 miles	11
Clarking	9.0 miles	13
Boggy	9.4 miles	11
Traders Hill	10.0 miles	11
Ferry Landing	10.2 miles	11
Moniac	12.2 miles	11
Oakdale	13.2 miles	11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 326555. 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.