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.
Population over time
3 figuresTalty 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 1,028 | |
| 2010 | 1,535 | +507 (+49%) |
| 2020 | 2,500 | +965 (+63%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 12 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.
- 1954 USGS Dallas quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1956 USGS Kaufman quadrangle1:62500
- 1958 USGS Dallas quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS Forney South quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1986 USGS Dallas quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
Fires near this place
236 since 2005Regional 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 burning | 102 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 43 |
| Smoking | 39 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 33 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 9 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 5 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 3 |
| Natural | 1 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2011 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 6525 IH 20 |
| 9 September 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 4 September 2011 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | FM 2578 |
| 3 September 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | 275 |
| 3 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | DALLAS EAST |
| 29 September 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | GREEN |
| 27 September 2012 | Smoking | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | EAST SPUR |
| 26 September 2009 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 13000 FM 148 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
17 since 1996Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Talty | 1 hurt, $10,000 | A wind gust caused an 18 wheeler to lose control and roll over on eastbound I-20 over the FM 1641 overpass. |
| May 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Talty | $200,000 | Large, 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 2023 | Hail | Talty | $50,000 | Broadcast media reported golf ball sized hail near the intersection of FM 1641 and Helms Trail in Talty, TX. |
| April 2023 | Hail | Talty | $50,000 | A public report indicated golf ball sized hail about 4 miles northeast of Crandall, TX. |
| August 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Talty | $35,000 | The 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 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Talty | $10,000 | Fire and rescue reported roof damage to a home, and a carport displaced 3 miles south of Lawrence. |
| June 2023 | Hail | Talty | $7,000 | Two inch hail was reported via social media in Talty. |
| October 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Talty | $5,000 | Emergency management reported a house under construction being blown down in the Heartland community just south of I-20. |
| May 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Talty | $5,000 | no account filed |
| March 2025 | Hail | Talty | - | Facebook photo showed large amounts of pea to quarter sized fell near Terrell. |
| March 2025 | Hail | Talty | - | Reported via mPING southeast of Forney. |
| May 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Talty | - | A trained spotter reported a wind gust of 63 MPH about 4 miles east-southeast of Forney, TX. |
| March 2023 | Hail | Talty | - | no account filed |
| March 2023 | Hail | Talty | - | no account filed |
| April 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Talty | - | no account filed |
| May 2021 | Hail | Talty | - | no account filed |
| January 1996 | Tornado (F1) | Talty | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Heartland | 3.7 miles | 12 | |
| Lone Star | 4.1 miles | 10 | |
| Union Valley | 4.6 miles | 10 | |
| Lawrence | 4.7 miles | 10 | |
| Wilson | 5.0 miles | 10 | |
| Gastonia | 5.0 miles | 11 | |
| Post Oak Bend City | 5.2 miles | 10 | |
| Post Oak Bend | 5.3 miles | 10 |
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 Talty | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q981975 | 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 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.




