Toluca, Texas

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 2002. It stands in the Southeast Hidalgo census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78579. The Survey maps it on the Progreso quadrangle.

Toluca within Hidalgo County

On record in Toluca

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Rancho Tolucalisted 1983 · 0.1 miles away

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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.

1953 USGS Brownsville quadrangle1:250000
1956 USGS Brownsville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1956 USGS Port Isabel quadrangle1:250000
1956 USGS Progreso quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1962 USGS Brownsville quadrangle1:250000
1992 USGS Harlingen quadrangle1:100000
2002 USGS Progreso quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

87 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 87 fires within 5 miles of Toluca between 1995 and 2019, burning about 876 acres in total. None started naturally. 23 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 burning	47
Arson/incendiarism	23
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	16
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
27 September 2005	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge	OTHL CANAL
22 September 2011	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge	LA COMA 2
12 September 2011	Debris and open burning	13 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	11-675
9 August 2015	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge	1015
31 August 2011	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge	LA COMA
29 August 2006	Smoking	2.0 acres	Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge	SMOKEY JOE'S
24 August 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge	RUBEN
24 August 2002	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	South Texas Refuge Complex	WHITEWING

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hidalgo 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
B and P Bridge Colonia	0.4 miles	11
Progreso Lakes	0.8 miles	11
La Frontera Colonia	1.5 miles	11
Todd Colonia Number 3	1.6 miles	11
Todds Colonia Number 2	1.6 miles	11
Oriente Colonia	1.6 miles	11
Progreso	1.6 miles	11
Todds Colonia Number 1	1.7 miles	11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1388203. 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.