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Toulon, Nevada

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1931 and the latest in 1987. It stands in the Lovelock census division. The Survey maps it on the Toulon Peak quadrangle. It stands 3,927 feet above sea level.

Toulon within Pershing County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 17 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 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Toulon between 2001 and 2020, burning about 1,219 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 1 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Equipment and vehicle use4
Debris and open burning1
Arson/incendiarism1
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Natural1

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
7 September 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWinnemucca District OfficeMM 92
29 September 2002Arson/incendiarism1,162 acresWinnemucca District OfficeTOULON
25 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWinnemucca District OfficeMM 95
11 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWinnemucca District OfficeTOULAN
20 August 2001Debris and open burningunder an acreWinnemucca District OfficeMM92
23 July 2017Natural33 acresWinnemucca District OfficeMM 94
8 June 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined19 acresWinnemucca District OfficeMM 91
16 June 2007Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreWinnemucca District OfficeTOULON

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pershing County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 32 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 32 workings within 5 miles of Toulon: 12 past producers, 11 unknowns, 7 occurrences, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Tungsten, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Silver, Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Copper King MineTungsten, Copper, Molybdenum, Iron, Manganese, Silver, UraniumOccurrence1906, 1952
St AnthonyAntimony, SeleniumUnknown
Toulon MillTungsten, Antimony, Gold, Lead, SilverPast Producer
Clay PitClayOccurrence
Granite PointPerliteUnknown
Perlite DepositPerliteOccurrence
Pumice DepositPumiceOccurrence
Ted Saylor MineAntimonyProducer
ToulonClayUnknown
TrinityPumiceUnknown

Every working recorded in Pershing County

Storms near this place

5 since 2019

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Toulon in 5 storm reports between 2019 and 2025: 5 thunderstorm wind. 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
July 2025Thunderstorm WindToulon-Peak outflow gust at TORNV 9.8 NE Trinity Junction.
August 2025Thunderstorm WindToulon-Mesonet station 9.8 northeast of Trinity Junction.
September 2025Thunderstorm WindToulon-Nevada Department of Transportation mesonet station TORNV 9.8 miles NE of Trinity Junction. This station also recorded a 62 mph thunderstorm wins gust 6:19 PM.
June 2021Thunderstorm WindToulon-Isolated thunderstorms produced strong winds in Pershing County with areas of blowing dust.
August 2019Thunderstorm WindToulon-NDOT mesonet station 10 miles north-northeast of Trinity Junction recorded a 64 mph wind gust from the outflow of a nearby thunderstorm on 8 August 1457PST.

Every storm recorded in Pershing 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
Toy (historical)3.5 miles17
Browns Station (historical)3.6 miles17
Granite Point4.1 miles17
Perth8.3 miles17
Lovelock12.1 miles16
Kodak16.5 miles16
Colado18.4 miles16
Clarksville (historical)19.0 miles16

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 ToulonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q22060850The 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 845714. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.