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Toulon, Kansas

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1896 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Big Creek Township. The Survey maps it on the Victoria quadrangle.

Toulon within Ellis County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 14 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

46 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 46 fires within 5 miles of Toulon between 2015 and 2020, burning about 38 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 2 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined14
Equipment and vehicle use10
Smoking7
Debris and open burning6
Natural2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Fireworks2
Arson/incendiarism2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
9 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service15-0153
26 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service1635
21 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service1597
11 September 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreEllis County1566
31 August 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreEllis County1498
4 July 2018Fireworksunder an acreKansas Forest Service1309
4 July 2018Fireworksunder an acreKansas Forest Service1310
4 July 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreEllis County1164

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ellis County

Storms near this place

2 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Toulon in 2 storm reports between 2014 and 2021: 1 heavy rain, 1 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
September 2014Heavy RainToulon-Rainfall of 4.00 inches was reported.
May 2021HailToulon-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Ellis 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
Munjor3.1 miles16
Hays4.9 miles16
Victoria5.0 miles14
Catharine5.4 miles15
Walker8.8 miles15
Antonino9.3 miles14
Emmeram9.4 miles15
Yocemento10.4 miles15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 484728. 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.