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.
Population over time
2 figuresTalmage 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 99 | |
| 2020 | 78 | -21 (-21%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 15 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1891 USGS Clay Center quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
- 1955 USGS Manhattan quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1956 USGS Manhattan quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Manhattan quadrangle1:250000
- 1965 USGS Manchester quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Clay Center quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
9 since 2016Regional 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 burning | 9 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 March 2016 | Debris and open burning | 20 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 12 |
| 4 March 2017 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Clay County | 8 |
| 24 March 2017 | Debris and open burning | 6.0 acres | Clay County | 15 |
| 21 March 2017 | Debris and open burning | 25 acres | Clay County | 14 |
| 18 March 2017 | Debris and open burning | 15 acres | Clay County | 10 |
| 20 February 2017 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Clay County | 7 |
| 18 February 2017 | Debris and open burning | 10 acres | Clay County | 6 |
| 18 February 2016 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 6 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
20 since 1996Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2007 | Flash Flood | Talmage | $100,000 | A 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 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Talmage | $1,000 | Trained 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 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Talmage | $500 | Strong winds tore off a few shingles of a residence near Talmage. |
| June 2019 | Flash Flood | Talmage | - | Water was reported over several roadways. |
| August 2013 | Flash Flood | Talmage | - | 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 2011 | Funnel Cloud | Talmage | - | Spotter reported funnel cloud north of Abilene. |
| June 2024 | Hail | Talmage | - | no account filed |
| April 2016 | Hail | Talmage | - | no account filed |
| May 2015 | Hail | Talmage | - | no account filed |
| March 2009 | Hail | Talmage | - | no account filed |
| May 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Talmage | - | no account filed |
| May 2003 | Hail | Talmage | - | no account filed |
| August 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Talmage | - | no account filed |
| July 2003 | Hail | Talmage | - | no account filed |
| May 2002 | Hail | Talmage | - | no account filed |
| May 2002 | Hail | Talmage | - | no account filed |
| May 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Talmage | - | no account filed |
| July 1996 | Hail | Talmage | - | no account filed |
| July 1996 | Hail | Talmage | - | no account filed |
| July 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Talmage | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Buckeye | 5.2 miles | 14 | |
| Manchester | 5.9 miles | 15 | |
| Abilene | 7.8 miles | 16 | |
| Sand Spring | 8.2 miles | 17 | |
| Moonlight | 8.5 miles | 15 | |
| Solomon | 9.3 miles | 17 | |
| Detroit | 9.7 miles | 17 | |
| Sutphen | 11.0 miles | 15 |
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 Talmage | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q7680239 | The 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.





