Toyahvale, Texas
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1894 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Balmorhea census division. It lies in ZIP code area 79718. It lies near Moore Tank Draw. The Survey maps it on the Toyahvale quadrangle. It stands 3,323 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 12 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.
- 1894 USGS Fort Davis quadrangle1:125000
- 1897 USGS Fort Davis quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
- 1954 USGS Fort Stockton quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Fort Stockton quadrangle1:250000
- 1972 USGS Toyahvale quadrangle1:24000
- 1973 USGS Fort Stockton quadrangle1:250000
- 1985 USGS Fort Davis quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
2 since 2015Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Toyahvale between 2015 and 2017, burning about 10 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 | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25 June 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | MCCOY AIRSTRIP FIRE |
| 18 April 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | HWY 17 GRASS FIRE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
1 since 2007Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Toyahvale in 1 storm report in 2007: 1 hail. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2007 | Hail | Toyahvale | - | no account filed |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pueblo Vitoria | 1.7 miles | 12 | |
| Balmorhea | 3.6 miles | 12 | |
| Saragosa | 8.7 miles | 9 | |
| Cuatro Caminos | 12.0 miles | 12 | |
| Verhalen | 16.3 miles | 9 | |
| Collier | 18.9 miles | 9 | |
| Seven Heart Crossing | 19.6 miles | 8 | |
| Gozar | 20.0 miles | 8 |
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 Toyahvale | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q7830566 | 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 1370067. 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.






