Talent Elementary School

Built in 1899. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2012.

From the record

One of 154 National Register listings published here for Jackson County · listed in 2012 · category: Building · built in 1899.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. 206 Main St., Talent, 97540
When was it listed? March 2012
Category. building
Census division. Ashland
When was it built? 1899
National Register reference number. 12000080 - 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

129 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 129 fires within 5 miles of Talent Elementary School between 1992 and 2020, burning about 3,362 acres in total. 38 started naturally. 7 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
Natural	38
Equipment and vehicle use	30
Debris and open burning	20
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	9
Arson/incendiarism	7
Power generation/transmission/distribution	6
Recreation and ceremony	5
Other causes	4
Fireworks	4
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Smoking	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	1
Firearms and explosives use	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
8 September 2020	Arson/incendiarism	3,200 acres	Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters	ALMEDA
8 September 1992	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Medford Unit	TALENT AVE
7 September 2011	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Medford Unit	PP#D 12209
5 September 2001	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Medford Unit	GRIFFIN CREEK
26 September 2007	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Medford Unit	GRIFFIN CRK #2
26 September 2000	Firearms and explosives use	under an acre	Medford Unit	TURKEY CANNON
23 September 2006	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Medford Unit	FRANK HILL
22 September 2009	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Medford Unit	TERRI DR.

Every fire recorded in Jackson County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 70 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 70 workings within 5 miles of Talent Elementary School: 33 past producers, 15 occurrences, 11 prospects, 10 producers. 10 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Tungsten. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Ashland Mine	Gold, Silver, Copper, Lead	Past Producer	1886, 1901
Burdic Group	Gold, Manganese	Occurrence	Pyrolusite
Burris Prospect	Copper, Gold, Manganese	Occurrence	Chalcopyrite, Pyrite, Rhodonite
Burris Prospect	Gold, Manganese, Copper	Prospect	1958
Casey	Gold, Silver, Lead	Occurrence	Vein
Casey	Gold, Silver, Lead	Prospect
Columbine Claim	Gold, Copper, Silver, Manganese	Occurrence	Chalcopyrite, Gold, Marcasite, Pyrite
Double Jack	Silver, Gold, Copper, Lead	Past Producer	1870
Double Jack Mine	Gold, Silver, Copper, Lead, Sand and Gravel, Construction	Occurrence
Forty - Nine Diggings	Gold, Mercury	Past Producer	Placer

Every working recorded in Jackson County

Storms near this property

2 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Talent, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports between 2005 and 2013: 2 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
August 2013	Hail	Talent	-	An orchardist from a orchard near Talent reported a 50% loss of the pear crop due to hail damage. Estimated hail size was 0.5 to 1.0 inches judging from holes in the ground. The monetary value of the loss is not known.
May 2005	Hail	Talent	-	A spotter 2WSW Talent reported .75 inch hail with a thunderstorm.

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

6 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
Malmgren Garage	0.2 miles	2024
Hanscom Hall	0.3 miles	1996
Beeson-Foss Ranch	1.0 miles	1999
Patrick F. McManus House	2.3 miles	1978
Wagner Creek School	2.4 miles	1992
George A. Hover House	2.9 miles	1980

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 12000080 in Record Group 79.
Jackson County	All 154 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.