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Walkers Orange County Theater

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. 20 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1896.

From the record

“The New Walker Theatre is a historic former movie theater on Main Street in Santa Ana, California. Opened in 1924, it came under new management as the Fox Walker Theatre in 1925 and later operated as the West Coast Theatre.”

Wikipedia article New Walker Theatre, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 136 National Register listings published here for Orange County · listed in 1982 · category: Building.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · 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. 308 N. Main St., Santa Ana, 92701
  • When was it listed? February 1982
  • Category. building
  • Census division. Anaheim-Santa Ana-Garden Grove
  • National Register reference number. 82002224 - 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.

Then and now

1896 to 1983

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 87 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Walkers Orange County Theater, surveyed 1983
Topographic sheet covering Walkers Orange County Theater, surveyed 1896

Fires near this property

299 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 299 fires within 5 miles of Walkers Orange County Theater between 1998 and 2020, burning about 6,238 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 38 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined180
Arson/incendiarism38
Equipment and vehicle use24
Smoking21
Misuse of fire by a minor20
Debris and open burning11
Natural3
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
6 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOrange County Fire Authoritynot named
6 September 2009Debris and open burning1.0 acresCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
30 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOrange County Fire Authoritynot named
30 September 2006Debris and open burning1.0 acresCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
28 September 2005Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
28 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
28 September 2005Misuse of fire by a minor1.0 acresCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
27 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named

Every fire recorded in Orange County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 13 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 13 workings within 5 miles of Walkers Orange County Theater: 11 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Mercury, Clay, Calcium. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Los Angeles Pressed Brick Co.ClayPast Producer
Red Hill MineMercury, Barium-BaritePast Producer
Santa Ana PlantCalciumProducer
Red Hill MineMercuryPast Producer1927
Cunningham and SonSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Garden Grove Sand & Gravel Co.Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
L. O. SwartzbaughSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Orange County Rock Co., Inc.Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Orange Plant 14Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Orange County

Storms near this property

8 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Santa Ana, the town this property stands in, in 8 storm reports between 1997 and 2023: 3 flood, 3 flash flood, 1 heavy rain, 1 funnel cloud. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
December 1998Heavy RainSanta Ana$140,000no account filed
February 2004Flash FloodSanta Ana$25,000no account filed
February 2023FloodSanta Ana-Heavy rain led to flooding early in the morning on February 25 across inland Orange County, centered around the community of Costa Mesa. The Department of Highways reported flooding at the Bristol Street on-ramp on I-405 with vehicles stuck in the floodwaters; street flooding leading to road closures and stranded vehicles; and SR-173 and Campus Drive had 1-2 feet of water in two lanes.
March 2023FloodSanta Ana-Very heavy rainfall occurred across inland Orange County from the evening on March 14 through the morning on March 15. Rainfall of 1.50-2.50 fell. An MPing report of street and road flooding resulting in road closures and stranded vehicles was reported near Santa Ana early in the morning on March 15.
December 2022Flash FloodSanta Ana-Swiftwater rescue in the Santa Ana River at Garden Grove Blvd. The area received 0.5 to 1 inch of rain at the time of rescue. An adult male was successfully rescued but taken to the hospital. The main IVT frontal band moved through Southern California 7-10 AM.
September 2015Flash FloodSanta Ana-A male and a female were in a flood control channel and had to be rescued by the Orange County Fire Department when they were caught off guard by the quickly rising water.
December 1999Funnel CloudSanta Ana-no account filed
September 1997FloodSanta Ana-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Orange County

Maps showing this location

20 surveys

United States Geological Survey topographic sheets whose coverage includes this point. Matched by taking the coordinate the National Park Service records for this property, then testing that coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet.

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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Odd Fellows Hallunder 500 feet1983
Santa Ana City Hallunder 500 feet1982
Rankin Buildingunder 500 feet1983
Builders Exchange Buildingunder 500 feet1982
Spurgeon Blockunder 500 feet1979
Downtown Santa Ana Historic Districts (North, Government/Institutional and South, Retail)under 500 feet1984

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 82002224 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Orange CountyAll 136 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.