Toledo, Kansas

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Toledo Township. It lies in ZIP code area 66801. It stands on East Buckeye Creek. The Survey maps it on the Plymouth quadrangle.

Toledo within Chase County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 18 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.

1888 USGS Emporia quadrangle1:125000
1894 USGS Emporia quadrangle1:125000, 7 printings
1955 USGS Hutchinson quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Plymouth quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1959 USGS Hutchinson quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1985 USGS Emporia quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1989 USGS Plymouth quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

16 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Toledo between 2000 and 2020, burning about 1,518 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	8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7
Recreation and ceremony	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
11 September 2000	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	65 acres	Flint Hills National Wildlife Refuge	EMPOR AST
5 April 2015	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Kansas Forest Service	1500031
4 April 2015	Debris and open burning	27 acres	Kansas Forest Service	25
10 April 2015	Debris and open burning	40 acres	Kansas Forest Service	27
1 April 2015	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Kansas Forest Service	22
9 March 2015	Debris and open burning	80 acres	Kansas Forest Service	6
6 March 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Kansas Forest Service	not named
30 March 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Kansas Forest Service	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Chase 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
Saffordville	1.9 miles	19
Ellinor	3.6 miles	19
Gladstone	8.5 miles	16
Strong City	9.0 miles	14
Cottonwood Falls	9.7 miles	12
Neva	13.1 miles	14
Bazaar	13.5 miles	12
Rockland	14.5 miles	14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 477280. 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.