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Toledo, Iowa

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Toledo Township. It lies in ZIP code area 52342. It stands on Minnow Creek. The Survey maps it on the Tama quadrangle. 2,369 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 906 feet above sea level.

Toledo within Tama County

On record in Toledo

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 5 records

Population over time

2 figures

Toledo grew from 2,341 to 2,369 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
20102,341
20202,369+28 (+1%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 8 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 Toledo between 1992 and 2020, burning about 3,439 acres in total. None started naturally. 49 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 burning142
Missing data/not specified/undetermined111
Arson/incendiarism49
Equipment and vehicle use7
Misuse of fire by a minor7
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Recreation and ceremony3
Fireworks3
Smoking3
Firearms and explosives use1
Other causes1

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
4 September 1999Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresSac and Fox AgencyTRANSFORM
25 September 2012Equipment and vehicle use1.5 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
23 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSac and Fox Agency3024 F AVE
15 September 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreSac and Fox AgencyDAVENPORT
3 August 2019Fireworks3.0 acresSac and Fox Agency163 CIRCLE
26 August 2004Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreSac and Fox AgencyF AVE WIRE
25 August 2011Debris and open burningunder an acreSac and Fox AgencyLINCOLN
2 August 2013Smoking3.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Tama 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 Toledo: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Manatt's Sand and Gravel, Inc.Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Tama County

Storms near this place

40 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Toledo in 40 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 17 thunderstorm wind, 11 heavy rain, 8 hail, 1 lightning. 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 1998Thunderstorm WindToledo$1,000,000no account filed
July 2011Thunderstorm WindToledo$300,000A 180 foot radio tower was snapped with many trees down.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindToledo$200,000Trees and power lines down all over the place.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindToledo$150,000Barn and brick silo flattened. Many trees down, some 3 feet in diameter.
May 2008FloodToledo$100,000Numerous roads were under water around the county.
August 2000LightningToledo$60,000no account filed
July 1995Thunderstorm WindToledo$20,000no account filed
July 2010Flash FloodToledo$10,000An inch of rain fell in under an hour, causing minor flash flooding.
June 2008HailToledo$10,000Winds were also estimated at 60 to 70 MPH.
August 2004Thunderstorm WindToledo$10,000no account filed
May 2003HailToledo$10,000no account filed
June 2025Thunderstorm WindToledo$5,000Delayed report of power pole damage north of Montour.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindToledo$5,000Trees were blown down in Toledo.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindToledo$5,000no account filed
June 2009Thunderstorm WindToledo$3,000Trees down in the area, and the corn was blown down.
May 1997HailToledo$3,000no account filed
May 1996Thunderstorm WindToledo$3,000no account filed
June 2014Thunderstorm WindToledo$2,000Four to five inch diameter walnut tree branches were blown down by high wind.
June 2008HailToledo$2,000no account filed
June 2005Thunderstorm WindToledo$2,000no account filed
June 2008Thunderstorm WindToledo$1,000Toledo Fire Department reports wind gusting to 60 MPH about 2 miles north of Toledo.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindToledo-Local law enforcement reported trees down in Meskwaki area.
May 2024Heavy RainToledo-Coop observer reported 24 hr heavy rainfall of 3.33 inches.
June 2020Heavy RainToledo-Public measured 2.7 inches of rain. Beginning time estimated by radar.
August 2020Thunderstorm WindToledo-Emergency manager reported wind gusts over 70 mph and that a tree fell on the office.
August 2020Thunderstorm WindToledo-A coop observer reported a 60 by 90 foot machine shed completely demolished. Neighbors empty grain bins were blown across highway 63. Several large trees are snapped or uprooted. A 78 mph wind gust was reported before the weather station gave out.
June 2019Heavy RainToledo-Coop observer reported heavy rainfall of 2.28 inches. Beginning and ending times estimated from radar.
May 2019HailToledo-Emergency manager reported golf ball hail at Highway 63 and 275th St.
September 2018Heavy RainToledo-Coop observer recorded heavy rainfall of 3.07 inches over the last 24 hours. Due to database entry limitation, beginning time coded as midnight CST.
September 2016Heavy RainToledo-Coop observer reported heavy rainfall of 2.02 inches.
December 2015Heavy RainToledo-Coop observer reported heavy rainfall of 2.48 inches over the last 48 hours/storm total so far.
August 2014Heavy RainToledo-Rainfall during the past 24 hours was 2.02 inches.
May 2013Heavy RainToledo-Twenty four hour rainfall total of 1.47 inches.
May 2013Heavy RainToledo-Rainfall since midnight was 3.92 inches.
June 2013Heavy RainToledo-Rainfall total for the previous 24 hours ending 0600 CST was 1.89 inches.
July 2010Heavy RainToledo-Rainfall of 1.36 inches received from KWWL.
April 2006Tornado (F0)Toledo-Tornado touched down briefly in open fields northeast of Tama. No damage occurred.
May 2023HailToledo-no account filed
June 2010HailToledo-no account filed
October 1998HailToledo-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Tama 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
Tama2.0 miles8
Mesquakie Indian Settlement3.6 miles8
Gladstone4.7 miles8
Potter5.8 miles8
Long Point6.0 miles8
Montour7.4 miles8
Helena7.5 miles8
Garwin8.6 miles9

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 ToledoAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1918024The 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 462271. 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.