Topographical projection patterns from the entorhinal cortex (EC) to the CA1 region of the hippocampus have led to a hypothesis that the proximal pole of CA1 (pCA1) is spatially more selective than the distal pole of CA1 (dCA1). While earlier studies (Henriksen et al., 2010; Oliva et al., 2016) have shown evidence supporting this hypothesis, a recent study (Deshmukh, 2021) showed that this difference does not hold true under all experimental conditions. In a complex environment with distinct local texture cues on a circular track and global visual cues, pCA1 and dCA1 display comparable spatial selectivity. Correlated with the spatial selectivity differences, the earlier studies also showed differences in theta phase coding dynamics (theta phase precession and theta modulation) between pCA1 and dCA1 neurons. In this study, we show that there are no differences in theta phase coding dynamics between neurons in these two regions under the experimental conditions where pCA1 and dCA1 neurons are equally spatially selective. We also show that dCA1 local field potentials (LFPs) show higher power in the theta range compared to pCA1 LFPs. These findings challenge the established notion of dCA1 being inherently less spatially selective and theta modulated than pCA1 and suggest that theta-mediated activation of the CA1 sub-networks to represent space is more task-dependent than being primarily driven by EC inputs. We are building leaky integrate-and-fire models to test if non-theta and non-spatially modulated inputs can contribute to the enhanced theta phase coding dynamics of a neuron that primarily receives spatially tuned excitation and theta oscillatory inhibition.