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Tolo, Oregon

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Medford census division. It lies in ZIP code area 97502. It stands on Bear Creek. The Survey maps it on the Sams Valley quadrangle. It stands 1,171 feet above sea level.

Tolo within Jackson 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

297 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 297 fires within 5 miles of Tolo between 1992 and 2020, burning about 649 acres in total. 29 started naturally. 30 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
Equipment and vehicle use80
Missing data/not specified/undetermined40
Debris and open burning35
Arson/incendiarism30
Natural29
Recreation and ceremony18
Smoking16
Power generation/transmission/distribution15
Fireworks11
Other causes9
Misuse of fire by a minor9
Railroad operations and maintenance5

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 2004Railroad operations and maintenance12 acresMedford UnitRR MP 449.5
8 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMedford DistrictMAPLE LANE
8 September 1992Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMedford UnitTOUVILLE PARK
7 September 1996Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMedford UnitWILLOW SPRINGS
6 September 1998Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreMedford UnitPP#12182
6 September 1998Power generation/transmission/distribution6.0 acresMedford UnitPP B10190
6 September 1994Missing data/not specified/undetermined65 acresMedford UnitBLACKWELL ROAD
6 September 1993Smokingunder an acreMedford UnitGOLD HILL

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jackson County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 200 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 200 workings within 5 miles of Tolo: 111 past producers, 43 producers, 28 occurrences, 16 prospects. 43 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Gold, Silver, Stone. 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
Blanche ClaimGold, Copper, SilverOccurrenceChalcopyrite, Gold, Pyrite, Quartz
Blanche ClaimGold, Silver, CopperProspect
Braden MineGold, Silver, Copper, Lead, ArsenicProducerChalcopyrite, Galena, Gold, Pyrite
Braden MineGold, Silver, Lead, Copper, ArsenicPast Producer
DunrominGold, Silver, LeadProducerGalena, Gold, Pyrite
Dunromin MineGold, Silver, LeadPast Producer
Gold Hill MineGold, Platinum, MolybdenumPast Producer1857
Gold Hill PocketGold, Molybdenum, PGEPast Producer
Gold Ray GraniteGranite, ClayPast ProducerClay
Gold Ray GraniteGranite, Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Jackson County

Storms near this place

2 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Tolo in 2 storm reports between 2010 and 2012: 1 hail, 1 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
December 2012FloodTolo-The Rogue River at Gold Ray exceeded flood stage during this interval. It crested at 12.23 feet at 02/1245 PST.
August 2010HailTolo-This spotter also reported 0.80 inches of rain.

Every storm recorded in Jackson 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
Seven Oaks2.8 miles23
Table Rock3.6 miles23
Gold Hill4.2 miles16
Central Point4.4 miles23
Dardanelles4.6 miles16
Sams Valley4.6 miles23
Four Corners5.2 miles23
White City6.0 miles24

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 ToloAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7814471The 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 1136834. 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.