Talmage is a village in Otoe County, Nebraska, United States.

[4] According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of 0.16 square miles (0.41 km2), all land.

[5] The town is located southeast of Lincoln and south of Omaha, lying just west of Nebraska Highway 67.

The Missouri Pacific Railroad's Kansas City-Omaha line construction reached the area by 1881.

The town was platted on March 7, 1882, on land donated by local farmer Clark Puffer.

About 14.7% of families and 18.8% of the population were below the poverty line, including 26.7% of those under the age of eighteen and 14.5% of those sixty-five or over.

[11] In 2007 Nemaha Valley merged into Johnson County Central Public Schools.