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Toluca, Illinois

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1934 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Bennington Township. It lies in ZIP code area 61369. The Survey maps it on the Varna quadrangle. 1,340 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 689 feet above sea level.

Toluca within Marshall County

Population over time

2 figures

Toluca fell from 1,414 to 1,340 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
20101,414
20201,340-74 (-5%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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

16 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Toluca between 2013 and 2020, burning about 214 acres in total. None started naturally. None was 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 burning9
Equipment and vehicle use4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3

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
28 September 2014Equipment and vehicle use15 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources1400170
26 September 2016Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry Resources1600095
26 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry Resources1600094
22 September 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry Resources180083.1
6 April 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry Resources1300058
20 April 2014Debris and open burning51 acresIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesMASLOWSKI
18 April 2014Debris and open burning30 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources1400068
11 April 2014Debris and open burning5.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources1400060

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Marshall County

Storms near this place

18 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Toluca in 18 storm reports between 1996 and 2024: 10 thunderstorm wind, 8 hail. 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
May 2012Thunderstorm WindToluca$900,000Strong thunderstorm winds derailed approximately 30 train cars about 1.5 miles east of Toluca in Marshall County.
May 2009Thunderstorm WindToluca$65,000A collapsing thunderstorm produced a small swath of wind damage across parts of rural Marshall County near the small town of Rutland. Eyewitnesses reported what appeared to be a small gustnado within the areas of damaging wind. A barn and corn crib were badly damaged along County Rd 100N just west of I-39. A farmhouse at this location suffered minor roof and window damage and a gas tank was rolled by high winds. Some of the debris from the farm blew onto I-39.
August 2012Thunderstorm WindToluca$25,000Numerous trees and power lines were blown down in Toluca.
May 2012Thunderstorm WindToluca$8,000Power lines were blown down in Toluca.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindToluca-Tree limbs were blown down and a fence was destroyed.
June 2023Thunderstorm WindToluca-A power pole was leaning.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindToluca-A large tree was blown over in Toluca.
April 2006Thunderstorm WindToluca-Numerous trees, power poles and power lines blown down.
May 2000Thunderstorm WindToluca-Several trees and tree limbs were blown down in Toluca and Wenona.
October 2000Thunderstorm WindToluca-A tree was blown over onto a car in Toluca, causing moderate damage. No injuries were reported.
May 2018HailToluca-no account filed
May 2018HailToluca-no account filed
August 2012HailToluca-no account filed
May 2006HailToluca-no account filed
March 2005HailToluca-no account filed
July 2004HailToluca-no account filed
April 2003HailToluca-no account filed
April 1996HailToluca-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Marshall 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
Custer2.6 miles11
Evans2.9 miles13
Pattonsburg5.2 miles11
Varna5.5 miles11
La Rose5.6 miles11
Wenona5.6 miles13
Porterfield5.9 miles11
Wilbern10.8 miles18

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 TolucaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q577518The 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 419768. 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.