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Talmage, Utah

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Roosevelt census division. It lies in ZIP code area 84073. The Survey maps it on the Talmage quadrangle. It stands 6,834 feet above sea level.

Talmage within Duchesne County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 18 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

69 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 69 fires within 5 miles of Talmage between 1992 and 2020, burning about 258 acres in total. 46 started naturally. 1 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
Natural46
Missing data/not specified/undetermined18
Debris and open burning2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Arson/incendiarism1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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 2001Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsMTN. HOME ROAD FIRE
8 September 2005Naturalunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsDRY FARM
7 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsBONITA
4 September 2007Naturalunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsCHRISTENSEN
4 September 1994Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsMT. HOME
22 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.9 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsBONETA CENTRAL
2 September 2016Naturalunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsPOTTER
2 September 2012Naturalunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsSTEAMBOUT II

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Duchesne County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 23 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 23 workings within 5 miles of Talmage: 19 past producers, 2 producers, 2 occurrences. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Uranium. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Blue Sky #1UraniumProducer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerUnconsolidated Sediments
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerUnconsolidated Sediments
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerUnconsolidated Sediments
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerUnconsolidated Sediments
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerUnconsolidated Sediments
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Duchesne 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
Mountain Home4.6 miles18
Boneta4.7 miles17
Utahn4.8 miles18
Altamont7.6 miles17
Mount Emmons8.1 miles17
Altonah8.3 miles18
Bluebell11.2 miles17
Upalco11.9 miles17

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 Q7680240The 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 1433175. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.