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Toledo, Washington

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1941 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Toledo-Vader census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98591. It stands on Bill Creek. The Survey maps it on the Toledo quadrangle. 631 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 121 feet above sea level.

Toledo within Lewis County

Population over time

2 figures

Toledo fell from 725 to 631 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
2010725
2020631-94 (-13%)

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.

Fires near this place

43 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 43 fires within 5 miles of Toledo between 1992 and 2020, burning about 35 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 1 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
Debris and open burning23
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Smoking2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Arson/incendiarism1
Fireworks1
Natural1
Recreation and ceremony1

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 1994Naturalunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
7 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersNIKULA
3 September 1994Debris and open burningunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
25 September 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersTIN MAN
23 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
20 September 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersLONE YEW
17 September 1992Debris and open burningunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
17 September 1992Debris and open burning5.0 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lewis County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 17 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 17 workings within 5 miles of Toledo: 14 past producers, 2 occurrences, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Fire Clay (Refractory). 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
BuswellFire Clay (Refractory)Occurrence
Cowlitz RiverClayOccurrence
Askin PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Janisch Gravel Co. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Keating PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Miller BarSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Mulford PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Riverside Sand & Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
RushpitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Thompson PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Lewis County

Storms near this place

2 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Toledo in 2 storm reports between 2002 and 2004: 2 lightning. The reports record 1 injury. 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
May 2004LightningToledo1 hurtA man was seriously injured after being struck by lightning while working on a roof. His co-workers said there was just one lightning bolt, none before or after the one that struck the man.
August 2002LightningToledo$2,000Four cattle were killed when struck by lightning.

Every storm recorded in Lewis 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
Cowlitz1.3 miles11
Saint Urban5.8 miles15
Winlock6.0 miles11
Vader6.5 miles11
Marys Corner7.5 miles15
Evaline8.4 miles15
Ethel8.5 miles17
Klaus9.4 miles15

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 ToledoAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1515635The 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 1512731. 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.