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Talty, Texas

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Forney census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75160. It stands on Terry Creek. The Survey maps it on the Forney South quadrangle. 2,500 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 440 feet above sea level.

Talty within Kaufman County

Population over time

3 figures

Talty grew from 1,028 to 2,500 between 2000 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
20001,028
20101,535+507 (+49%)
20202,500+965 (+63%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 12 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

236 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 236 fires within 5 miles of Talty between 2005 and 2020, burning about 1,834 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 3 were 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 burning102
Missing data/not specified/undetermined43
Smoking39
Equipment and vehicle use33
Power generation/transmission/distribution9
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Arson/incendiarism3
Natural1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
9 September 2011Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service6525 IH 20
9 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
4 September 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFM 2578
3 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service275
3 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceDALLAS EAST
29 September 2019Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGREEN
27 September 2012Smoking1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceEAST SPUR
26 September 2009Debris and open burning5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service13000 FM 148

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Kaufman County

Storms near this place

17 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Talty in 17 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 8 thunderstorm wind, 8 hail, 1 tornado. The reports record 1 injury. 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 2016Thunderstorm WindTalty1 hurt, $10,000A wind gust caused an 18 wheeler to lose control and roll over on eastbound I-20 over the FM 1641 overpass.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindTalty$200,000Large, split trees and many downed branches were reported in the Lost Creek Estates neighborhood in Talty. Elsewhere around Talty, trees, roofs, and fences were damaged. A NWS survey of the area determined winds up to 85 mph caused the damage around Talty.
April 2023HailTalty$50,000Broadcast media reported golf ball sized hail near the intersection of FM 1641 and Helms Trail in Talty, TX.
April 2023HailTalty$50,000A public report indicated golf ball sized hail about 4 miles northeast of Crandall, TX.
August 2010Thunderstorm WindTalty$35,000The emergency manager reported roof and wall damage to one home on CR 213A and also 2 metal buildings in the same area were destroyed.
May 2025Thunderstorm WindTalty$10,000Fire and rescue reported roof damage to a home, and a carport displaced 3 miles south of Lawrence.
June 2023HailTalty$7,000Two inch hail was reported via social media in Talty.
October 2014Thunderstorm WindTalty$5,000Emergency management reported a house under construction being blown down in the Heartland community just south of I-20.
May 2022Thunderstorm WindTalty$5,000no account filed
March 2025HailTalty-Facebook photo showed large amounts of pea to quarter sized fell near Terrell.
March 2025HailTalty-Reported via mPING southeast of Forney.
May 2022Thunderstorm WindTalty-A trained spotter reported a wind gust of 63 MPH about 4 miles east-southeast of Forney, TX.
March 2023HailTalty-no account filed
March 2023HailTalty-no account filed
April 2022Thunderstorm WindTalty-no account filed
May 2021HailTalty-no account filed
January 1996Tornado (F1)Talty-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Kaufman 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
Heartland3.7 miles12
Lone Star4.1 miles10
Union Valley4.6 miles10
Lawrence4.7 miles10
Wilson5.0 miles10
Gastonia5.0 miles11
Post Oak Bend City5.2 miles10
Post Oak Bend5.3 miles10

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 TaltyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q981975The 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 1379137. 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.