Wilkinson-Swem Building

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.

From the record

One of 154 National Register listings published here for Jackson County · listed in 1982 · category: Building.

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. 217 E. Main St., Medford, 97501
When was it listed? August 1982
Category. building
Census division. Medford
National Register reference number. 82003727 - 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

106 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 106 fires within 5 miles of Wilkinson-Swem Building between 1992 and 2020, burning about 928 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 10 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
Equipment and vehicle use	34
Debris and open burning	16
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	13
Arson/incendiarism	10
Power generation/transmission/distribution	10
Natural	8
Fireworks	5
Recreation and ceremony	4
Smoking	4
Other causes	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	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 2017	Smoking	under an acre	Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters	SOUTH STAGE 4760
8 September 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Medford District	N ROXY
5 September 2007	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Medford Unit	S. STAGE
26 September 2006	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Medford Unit	CHERRY LANE
22 September 2008	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Medford Unit	DARK HOLLOW
21 September 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	633 acres	Medford Unit	DEER RIDGE
2 September 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Medford Unit	3645 PIONEER
18 September 2008	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Medford Unit	GLORY C

Every fire recorded in Jackson County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 35 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 35 workings within 5 miles of Wilkinson-Swem Building: 25 past producers, 8 producers, 1 occurrence, 1 prospect. 8 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Gold. 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
Blue Bucket	Gold	Occurrence	Vein
Blue Bucket	Gold	Prospect
Brownsboro Pit & Plant	Stone	Past Producer
Brownsboro Pit & Plant	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Demoss	Stone	Past Producer
Demoss Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Gravel Pit	Stone	Past Producer
Jay's Pit	Stone	Past Producer
Jay's Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Middle Fork Rogue Pit	Stone	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Jackson County

Storms near this property

15 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Medford, the town this property stands in, in 15 storm reports between 1995 and 2015: 10 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind. 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
July 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	South Medford	-	The Mail Tribune newspaper and the police scanner indicated that numerous trees were knocked down in the Medford area. Some fell into power lines, causing multiple power outages. Other fell into vehicles and homes. Lightning also was the suspected cause of at least one structure fire.
July 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Medford	-	A member of the public reported trees down at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.
June 2012	Hail	Medford	-	This warning was issued based on radar reports. A threshold VIL density for 1 inch hail was determined with ground truth earlier in the day and this warning was issued based on radar returns exceeding that threshold. Therefore it is assumed that this storm produced 1 inch or larger hail at some point in its lifespan.
August 2010	Hail	Medford	-	This employee also reported 0.96 inches of rain.
August 2010	Hail	Medford	-	Reported by Scott Lewis at KDRV television station.
August 2010	Hail	Medford	-	A trained spotter 1 mile from the airport on Merriman Road reported hail that dented the roof of his car. He also measured 0.20 inches of rain.
August 2003	Hail	Medford	-	Spotter JA40 in northeast Medford reported 3/4 inch hail and heavy rain.
August 2003	Hail	Medford	-	Thai Bistro reported 3/4 inch hail covering ground at Stevens and Biddle.
August 2003	Hail	Medford	-	Spotter JA61 in northeast Medford reported 3/4 inch hail.
July 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Medford	-	See below.
August 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Medford	-	Spotter reported one tree and lots of limbs blown down.
August 2010	Hail	Medford	-	no account filed
July 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Medford	-	no account filed
July 1995	Hail	Medford	-	no account filed
July 1995	Hail	Medford	-	no account filed

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
Tayler-Phipps Building	under 500 feet	1990
Sparta Building	under 500 feet	1992
Medford Central Firehall	under 500 feet	1996
Medford Downtown Historic District	0.1 miles	1998
Medford Southern Pacific Railroad Passenger Depot	0.1 miles	1996
Barnum Hotel	0.2 miles	1984

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 82003727 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.