Talent is a city in Jackson County, Oregon, United States.

A. P. Tallent, an East Tennessee native who settled in Oregon in the 1870s, platted the city in the 1880s.

He wanted to name it Wagner but was overruled by postal officials, who preferred Talent, dropping one of the L's.

Earlier names for the settlement were Eden District and Wagner Creek.

[5] On September 8, 2020, roughly a third of Talent, along with neighboring Phoenix and parts of Medford and Ashland, were destroyed by the Almeda Drive Fire.

[13] A separate criminal investigation into the origin point of the Almeda Drive Fire in Ashland is ongoing.

[13] According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 1.33 square miles (3.44 km2), all of it land.

This is toward the southern end of the Rogue River Valley, near the Siskiyou Mountains and the border with California.

[15] Wagner was the name of a family of pioneer settlers who lived here before Talent became a city.

[16] This region experiences warm to hot and dry summers, with average temperatures above 81.6 °F (27.6 °C).