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Toler, Kentucky

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the South Williamson census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41514. It lies near Churchouse Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Williamson quadrangle. It stands 679 feet above sea level.

Toler within Pike County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 23 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

200 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 200 fires within 5 miles of Toler between 1992 and 2020, burning about 18,279 acres in total. None started naturally. 55 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 burning67
Arson/incendiarism55
Missing data/not specified/undetermined30
Fireworks30
Recreation and ceremony8
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
29 September 2007Debris and open burning5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
25 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresWest Virginia Division of Forestrynot named
22 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryGOODY
13 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryLOFTIS MANSION
13 August 2008Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
13 August 2007Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresWest Virginia Division of Forestrynot named
17 June 2007Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
19 May 1997Debris and open burningunder an acreWest Virginia Division of ForestrySYCAMORE CK.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pike County

Storms near this place

4 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Toler in 4 storm reports between 2005 and 2022: 2 flood, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood. 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
March 2020FloodToler$10,000Emergency Management reported standing water on low lying portions of Toler Road northeast of Belfry. Two homes ended up with water in their basements.
August 2012FloodToler$1,000A few back roads remained under water in the Belfry and Toler communities but the water was receding at the time of this report.
January 2022Flash FloodToler-KY-319 in the community of Toler is impassable due to flood waters.
August 2005Thunderstorm WindToler-Trees down.

Every storm recorded in Pike 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
Hardy1.2 miles24
Aflex1.5 miles22
Belfry1.5 miles19
Burnwell1.6 miles22
Stringtown1.7 miles22
Leckieville1.8 miles23
Narrows Branch (historical)1.9 miles24
Goody1.9 miles23

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 TolerAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7814213The 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 505319. 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.