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Talmage, Kansas

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Willowdale Township. It lies in ZIP code area 67410. The Survey maps it on the Manchester quadrangle. 78 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,211 feet above sea level.

Talmage within Dickinson County

Population over time

2 figures

Talmage fell from 99 to 78 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
201099
202078-21 (-21%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 15 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

9 since 2016

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Talmage between 2016 and 2017, burning about 84 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
Debris and open burning9

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
5 March 2016Debris and open burning20 acresKansas Forest Service12
4 March 2017Debris and open burning5.0 acresClay County8
24 March 2017Debris and open burning6.0 acresClay County15
21 March 2017Debris and open burning25 acresClay County14
18 March 2017Debris and open burning15 acresClay County10
20 February 2017Debris and open burning1.0 acresClay County7
18 February 2017Debris and open burning10 acresClay County6
18 February 2016Debris and open burning1.0 acresKansas Forest Service6

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Dickinson County

Storms near this place

20 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Talmage in 20 storm reports between 1996 and 2024: 10 hail, 6 thunderstorm wind, 3 flash flood, 1 funnel cloud. 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
May 2007Flash FloodTalmage$100,000A bridge in town that was recently built is currently 3 feet under water. On either side of the bridge, water is 15 to 20 feet deep. The town is isolated. Schools are cancelled.
August 2010Thunderstorm WindTalmage$1,000Trained spotters from across northern Dickinson county reported 60 to 70 mph wind gusts associated with a strong storm complex which moved over that area. near the town of Moonlight a 16 inch fig tree broke at the trunk about 2 feet from the ground. Tin from nearby outbuildings was also laying the front yard of the residence.
August 2003Thunderstorm WindTalmage$500Strong winds tore off a few shingles of a residence near Talmage.
June 2019Flash FloodTalmage-Water was reported over several roadways.
August 2013Flash FloodTalmage-Water rescue near highway 18 and fair rd. Vehicle drove into 2 to 3 feet of running water. The vehicle then became hung up on a stump...allowing rescuers to access the vehicle and perform the rescue.
April 2011Funnel CloudTalmage-Spotter reported funnel cloud north of Abilene.
June 2024HailTalmage-no account filed
April 2016HailTalmage-no account filed
May 2015HailTalmage-no account filed
March 2009HailTalmage-no account filed
May 2007Thunderstorm WindTalmage-no account filed
May 2003HailTalmage-no account filed
August 2003Thunderstorm WindTalmage-no account filed
July 2003HailTalmage-no account filed
May 2002HailTalmage-no account filed
May 2002HailTalmage-no account filed
May 1997Thunderstorm WindTalmage-no account filed
July 1996HailTalmage-no account filed
July 1996HailTalmage-no account filed
July 1996Thunderstorm WindTalmage-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Dickinson 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
Buckeye5.2 miles14
Manchester5.9 miles15
Abilene7.8 miles16
Sand Spring8.2 miles17
Moonlight8.5 miles15
Solomon9.3 miles17
Detroit9.7 miles17
Sutphen11.0 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 TalmageAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7680239The 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 476481. 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.