Toland, Texas

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Sweetwater census division. It lies in ZIP code area 79561. The Survey maps it on the Chalk Peak quadrangle.

Toland within Nolan 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.

1893 USGS Sweetwater quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
1954 USGS Big Spring quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1957 USGS Merkel quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1958 USGS Big Spring quadrangle1:250000
1984 USGS Chalk Peak quadrangle1:24000
1985 USGS Sweetwater quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

117 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 117 fires within 5 miles of Toland between 2005 and 2020, burning about 2,684 acres in total. 9 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
Equipment and vehicle use	52
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	26
Debris and open burning	18
Natural	9
Power generation/transmission/distribution	8
Railroad operations and maintenance	3
Smoking	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
7 September 2011	Equipment and vehicle use	5.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	263 1/2 GRASS FIRE
7 September 2009	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	264CM GRASS FIRE
3 September 2011	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	264 GRASS FIRE
3 September 2005	Equipment and vehicle use	5.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
29 September 2011	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	262 CENTER MEDIAN
29 September 2011	Natural	75 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	SLITER FIRE
21 September 2011	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	BOYD FIRE
21 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	TRENT MESA FIRE 2

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Nolan 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Grimes	1.7 miles	14
Herndon	4.0 miles	14
Tesco	5.8 miles	14
Nolan	13.1 miles	14
Sweetwater	13.6 miles	13
Orient	14.2 miles	12
Shaufler	15.6 miles	13
Avenger Village	16.2 miles	13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1379169. 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.