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Talmo, Georgia

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the West Jackson census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30575. It stands on Banigan Branch. The Survey maps it on the Pendergrass quadrangle. 257 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 915 feet above sea level.

Talmo within Jackson County

On record in Talmo

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 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Talmo grew from 180 to 257 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
2010180
2020257+77 (+43%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 12 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

156 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 156 fires within 5 miles of Talmo between 1992 and 2017, burning about 371 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 33 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 burning83
Arson/incendiarism33
Equipment and vehicle use11
Misuse of fire by a minor8
Smoking7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Recreation and ceremony4
Natural4

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
8 September 1996Naturalunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 2003Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 1993Debris and open burning5.2 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
26 September 1999Arson/incendiarism11 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
26 September 1999Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
26 September 1999Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
25 September 2016Debris and open burning8.2 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2017-JACKSON-003
25 September 2012Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2013-HALL-002

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jackson County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Talmo: 1 producer, 1 past producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Gainsville QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Hall County QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Storms near this place

6 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Talmo in 6 storm reports between 2003 and 2020: 5 thunderstorm wind, 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2010HailTalmo$370,000The public observed golf ball-sized hail in northern Jefferson county. Radar data suggests that hail of similar size likely fell across areas from Talmo to just north of Jefferson.
August 2007Thunderstorm WindTalmo$35,000A storm spotter reported that a chicken house was destroyed from a thunderstorm downburst or microburst in the Talmo area. One tree was down about halfway between Jefferson and Nicholson, and another tree fell on a vehicle on Georgia Highway 11, Winder-Jefferson Highway near the Barrow county line. No injuries were reported from this incident.
August 2020Thunderstorm WindTalmo$5,000The Jackson County Emergency Manager reported trees and power lines blown down from Thistlewood Drive in Talmo to Hog Mountain Road east of Pendergrass.
June 2013Thunderstorm WindTalmo$2,500The Jackson County 911 Center reported that numerous trees and power lines were blown down county wide.
July 2003Thunderstorm WindTalmo$1,000The Jackson county 911 center reported that a few trees were blown down.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindTalmo-The public reported a wind gust of 61 MPH measured on a home weather station on Mountain Creek Church Road.

Every storm recorded in Jackson 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
Fairview1.8 miles12
Pond Fork (historical)2.0 miles12
Thurmack2.4 miles12
Pendergrass2.8 miles12
Goochville3.4 miles15
Ednaville4.7 miles15
Holly Springs5.6 miles12
Holders5.7 miles12

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 TalmoAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3019078The 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 323901. 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.