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Talmage, Iowa

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1951 and the latest in 1993. It stands in Jones Township. It lies in ZIP code area 50254. It stands on Threemile Creek. The Survey maps it on the Lorimor South quadrangle.

Talmage within Union County

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

19 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 19 fires within 5 miles of Talmage between 2007 and 2020, burning about 289 acres in total. 1 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
Debris and open burning11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Natural1

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
11 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 June 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
22 April 2014Debris and open burning15 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 April 2013Debris and open burning4.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
11 April 2014Debris and open burning25 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
11 April 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
1 April 2015Debris and open burning100 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
1 April 2015Debris and open burning20 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Union County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Talmage: 4 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Afton-Lacena PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Spring Valley LakeSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Thayer PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Thayer QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Union County

Storms near this place

5 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Talmage in 5 storm reports between 2007 and 2023: 2 hail, 1 flash flood, 1 funnel cloud, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
August 2007Flash FloodTalmage$50,000Highway P64 was completely covered in water south of Thayer.
April 2012HailTalmage$10,000no account filed
June 2023Thunderstorm WindTalmage-Public reported measured wind gusts to 63 mph, including damaged and downed tree branches.
June 2021HailTalmage-Trained spotter report of two inch hail.
June 2008Funnel CloudTalmage-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Union 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
Afton Junction (historical)0.9 miles11
Thayer3.2 miles11
Shepard (historical)3.4 miles8
Monette4.5 miles11
Afton4.6 miles11
Lorimor7.7 miles11
Arispe7.8 miles8
Shannon City11.8 miles8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 464771. 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.