Talmage, Nebraska
13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 1986. It stands in McWilliams precinct. It lies in ZIP code area 68448. It stands on North Fork Little Nemaha River. The Survey maps it on the Talmage quadrangle. 198 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 981 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresTalmage fell from 233 to 198 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 | 233 | |
| 2020 | 198 | -35 (-15%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 13 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.
- 1903 USGS Weeping Water quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
- 1929 USGS Weeping Water quadrangle1:125000
- 1955 USGS Lincoln quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
- 1957 USGS Lincoln quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Lincoln quadrangle1:250000
- 1966 USGS Talmage quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Lincoln quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
11 since 2002Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Talmage between 2002 and 2020, burning about 41 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 | 7 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 April 2002 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 30 April 2018 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 29 April 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.2 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 31 March 2020 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 16 March 2015 | Recreation and ceremony | 10 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 1 March 2020 | Debris and open burning | 4.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 22 February 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 21 February 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 14 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
10 since 2004Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Talmage in 10 storm reports between 2004 and 2026: 4 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 1 flood. 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 | $10,000 | Heavy rainfall of 1 to 3 inches produced flash flooding which briefly crossed some county roads near Talmage and Lorton including Highways 128 and 67. The flooding also caused the temporary loss of telephone service in Talmage due to a washout. |
| June 2010 | Flood | Talmage | $2,000 | Rainfall of 2 to 4 inches that fell during the evening of 6/20 caused flooding along Little Nemaha River and the North Fork of the Little Nemaha River from around Dunbar southeast through the Auburn area. The Little Nemaha near Auburn, just downstream in Nemaha county, crested at almost 27 feet during the evening of 6/21, flood stage is 22 feet. The river near Auburn was above flood stage from the morning of 6/21 until the morning of 6/22. The flooding along the North Fork of the Little Nemaha caused the evacuation of the houses of 11 people in the Dunbar area. County roads and farmland also experienced flooding. |
| April 2026 | Hail | Talmage | - | Delayed public report of hail estimated up to 1 inch in diameter in Talmage, NE. Time estimated with radar. |
| March 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Talmage | - | Trained spotter report of a tree and power lines down on 5th Street and Market in Talmage. Estimated wind gust of 60-70 mph, with the time of the damage estimated from radar. |
| July 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Talmage | - | Public reported an estimated wind gust of 60 mph. |
| June 2020 | Flash Flood | Talmage | - | Public reported flooding of roads and cropland around Talmage, with measured rain of at least 5 inches. |
| June 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Talmage | - | no account filed |
| March 2006 | Hail | Talmage | - | no account filed |
| April 2005 | Hail | Talmage | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Hail | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tangeman | 3.9 miles | 13 | |
| Cio (historical) | 4.5 miles | 13 | |
| Delta (historical) | 4.5 miles | 13 | |
| Lorton | 4.5 miles | 13 | |
| Paul | 8.0 miles | 11 | |
| Elberon | 9.0 miles | 11 | |
| Dunbar | 9.5 miles | 13 | |
| Syracuse | 12.4 miles | 13 |
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 Q524165 | 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 834026. 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.






