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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.

Talmage within Otoe County

Population over time

2 figures

Talmage 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.

YearPeople Change
2010233
2020198-35 (-15%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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

11 since 2002

Regional 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 burning7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Recreation and ceremony1

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
4 April 2002Debris and open burning1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
30 April 2018Debris and open burning2.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
29 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.2 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
31 March 2020Debris and open burning1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
16 March 2015Recreation and ceremony10 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
1 March 2020Debris and open burning4.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
22 February 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
21 February 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined14 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Otoe County

Storms near this place

10 since 2004

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2007Flash FloodTalmage$10,000Heavy 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 2010FloodTalmage$2,000Rainfall 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 2026HailTalmage-Delayed public report of hail estimated up to 1 inch in diameter in Talmage, NE. Time estimated with radar.
March 2025Thunderstorm WindTalmage-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 2023Thunderstorm WindTalmage-Public reported an estimated wind gust of 60 mph.
June 2020Flash FloodTalmage-Public reported flooding of roads and cropland around Talmage, with measured rain of at least 5 inches.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindTalmage-no account filed
March 2006HailTalmage-no account filed
April 2005HailTalmage-no account filed
May 2004HailTalmage-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Otoe 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
Tangeman3.9 miles13
Cio (historical)4.5 miles13
Delta (historical)4.5 miles13
Lorton4.5 miles13
Paul8.0 miles11
Elberon9.0 miles11
Dunbar9.5 miles13
Syracuse12.4 miles13

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 Q524165The 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.