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.
Population over time
2 figuresToluca 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 1,414 | |
| 2020 | 1,340 | -74 (-5%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 11 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1934 USGS Wenona quadrangle1:48000
- 1934 USGS Wenona quadrangle1:62500
- 1939 USGS Wenona quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Aurora quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1961 USGS Aurora quadrangle1:250000
- 1983 USGS Varna quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Kewanee quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
16 since 2013Regional 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 burning | 9 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 4 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 28 September 2014 | Equipment and vehicle use | 15 acres | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | 1400170 |
| 26 September 2016 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | 1600095 |
| 26 September 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | 1600094 |
| 22 September 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | 180083.1 |
| 6 April 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | 1300058 |
| 20 April 2014 | Debris and open burning | 51 acres | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | MASLOWSKI |
| 18 April 2014 | Debris and open burning | 30 acres | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | 1400068 |
| 11 April 2014 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | 1400060 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
18 since 1996Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Toluca | $900,000 | Strong thunderstorm winds derailed approximately 30 train cars about 1.5 miles east of Toluca in Marshall County. |
| May 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Toluca | $65,000 | A 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 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Toluca | $25,000 | Numerous trees and power lines were blown down in Toluca. |
| May 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Toluca | $8,000 | Power lines were blown down in Toluca. |
| July 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Toluca | - | Tree limbs were blown down and a fence was destroyed. |
| June 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Toluca | - | A power pole was leaning. |
| June 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Toluca | - | A large tree was blown over in Toluca. |
| April 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Toluca | - | Numerous trees, power poles and power lines blown down. |
| May 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Toluca | - | Several trees and tree limbs were blown down in Toluca and Wenona. |
| October 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Toluca | - | A tree was blown over onto a car in Toluca, causing moderate damage. No injuries were reported. |
| May 2018 | Hail | Toluca | - | no account filed |
| May 2018 | Hail | Toluca | - | no account filed |
| August 2012 | Hail | Toluca | - | no account filed |
| May 2006 | Hail | Toluca | - | no account filed |
| March 2005 | Hail | Toluca | - | no account filed |
| July 2004 | Hail | Toluca | - | no account filed |
| April 2003 | Hail | Toluca | - | no account filed |
| April 1996 | Hail | Toluca | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Custer | 2.6 miles | 11 | |
| Evans | 2.9 miles | 13 | |
| Pattonsburg | 5.2 miles | 11 | |
| Varna | 5.5 miles | 11 | |
| La Rose | 5.6 miles | 11 | |
| Wenona | 5.6 miles | 13 | |
| Porterfield | 5.9 miles | 11 | |
| Wilbern | 10.8 miles | 18 |
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 Toluca | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q577518 | The 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.






