Talmo Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.

From the record

One of 14 National Register listings published here for Jackson County · listed in 1997 · category: District.

Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Address. Roughly along Main St., Kinney Ave., and A.J. Irvin Rd., Talmo, 30575
When was it listed? September 1997
Category. district
Census division. West Jackson
National Register reference number. 97000960 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Fires near this property

156 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 156 fires within 5 miles of Talmo Historic District between 1992 and 2017, burning about 371 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 33 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	83
Arson/incendiarism	33
Equipment and vehicle use	11
Misuse of fire by a minor	8
Smoking	7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6
Recreation and ceremony	4
Natural	4

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
8 September 1996	Natural	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
4 September 2003	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
29 September 1993	Debris and open burning	5.2 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
26 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	11 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
26 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
26 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
25 September 2016	Debris and open burning	8.2 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2017-JACKSON-003
25 September 2012	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2013-HALL-002

Every fire recorded in Jackson County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Talmo Historic District: 1 producer, 1 past producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Gainsville Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
	Hall County Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer

Storms near this property

6 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Talmo, the town this property stands in, in 6 storm reports between 2003 and 2020: 5 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
June 2010	Hail	Talmo	$370,000	The public observed golf ball-sized hail in northern Jefferson county. Radar data suggests that hail of similar size likely fell across areas from Talmo to just north of Jefferson.
August 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Talmo	$35,000	A storm spotter reported that a chicken house was destroyed from a thunderstorm downburst or microburst in the Talmo area. One tree was down about halfway between Jefferson and Nicholson, and another tree fell on a vehicle on Georgia Highway 11, Winder-Jefferson Highway near the Barrow county line. No injuries were reported from this incident.
August 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Talmo	$5,000	The Jackson County Emergency Manager reported trees and power lines blown down from Thistlewood Drive in Talmo to Hog Mountain Road east of Pendergrass.
June 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Talmo	$2,500	The Jackson County 911 Center reported that numerous trees and power lines were blown down county wide.
July 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Talmo	$1,000	The Jackson county 911 center reported that a few trees were blown down.
June 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Talmo	-	The public reported a wind gust of 61 MPH measured on a home weather station on Mountain Creek Church Road.

Every storm recorded in Jackson County

Map coverage status

No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.

Listed places nearby

4 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Property	Distance	Listed
Braselton Historic District	5.8 miles	2001
Holder Plantation	6.2 miles	1990
Hoschton Depot	6.5 miles	2000
Hillcrest-Allen Clinic and Hospital	7.0 miles	1985

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 97000960 in Record Group 79.
Jackson County	All 14 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
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.
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.