BlockEl Toro, Texas
10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the Vanderbilt census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77957. The Survey maps it on the Edna quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 10 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1952 USGS Edna quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1953 USGS Beeville quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Beeville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1960 USGS Beeville quadrangle1:250000
- 1984 USGS Port Lavaca quadrangle1:100000
- 1995 USGS Edna quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
15 since 2009Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 15 fires within 5 miles of El Toro between 2009 and 2020, burning about 5,556 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 8 |
| Debris and open burning | 4 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17 March 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS FIRES IH 35 N M/M 119 |
| 5 February 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | 234 |
| 3 February 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | CR 101/59 NORTH-JACKSON CO. |
| 28 February 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3,500 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | FM 234 & CR 105 |
| 28 February 2011 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | AIRPORT FIRE FEEDER RD |
| 28 February 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2,000 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | HWY 59/JACKSON CO. CR 317 |
| 14 February 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | CR 112 |
| 5 November 2010 | Debris and open burning | 25 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | CR 101 FIRE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
1 since 2025Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names El Toro in 1 storm report in 2025: 1 funnel cloud. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2025 | Funnel Cloud | El Toro | - | A trained storm spotter reported a funnel cloud just south of El Toro along US-59. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Matilda | 1.6 miles | 10 | |
| Edna | 3.8 miles | 10 | |
| Manson | 5.7 miles | 9 | |
| Mount Olive | 8.2 miles | 8 | |
| Navidad | 8.8 miles | 8 | |
| Vanderbilt | 9.8 miles | 9 | |
| Red Bluff | 10.5 miles | 9 | |
| La Salle | 11.0 miles | 9 |
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.
| Wikidata item Q116534727 | The 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 1379708. 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.