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Photograph of Egyptian Theatre
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Egyptian Theater

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993.

From the record

“The Egyptian Theatre in Delta, Colorado, United States, is an Egyptian Revival movie house. The 425-seat theater opened in 1928 at the height of the fashion for thematically-designed cinemas.”

Wikipedia article Egyptian Theatre (Delta, Colorado), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 16 National Register listings published here for Delta County · listed in 1993 · category: Building.

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

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. 452 Main St., Delta, 81416
  • When was it listed? July 1993
  • Category. building
  • Census division. Delta
  • Architectural style. Egyptian Revival architecture
  • National Register reference number. 93000575 - 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

249 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 249 fires within 5 miles of Egyptian Theater between 2011 and 2020, burning about 13 acres in total. None started naturally. None was 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/undetermined246
Equipment and vehicle use3

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
4 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State HeadquartersDELTA
27 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreDelta County Fire Protection District #1N/A
22 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreDelta County Fire Protection District #1UNKNOWN
21 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreDelta County Fire Protection District #1UNKNOWN
17 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreDelta County Fire Protection District #1UNKNOWN
16 September 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreDelta County Fire Protection District #1UNKNOWN
14 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreDelta County Fire Protection District #1UNKNOWN
6 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreDelta County Fire Protection District #1N/A

Every fire recorded in Delta County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 24 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 24 workings within 5 miles of Egyptian Theater: 9 past producers, 8 unknowns, 5 occurrences, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Gypsum-Anhydrite. 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
Chipeta MillGypsum-AnhydritePast Producer
Delta County PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Delta Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Delta County

Storms near this property

21 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Delta, the town this property stands in, in 21 storm reports between 1993 and 2009: 4 thunderstorm wind, 4 funnel cloud, 3 hail, 3 flood. 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
May 1993Thunderstorm WindDelta$500,000Strong thunderstorm winds destroyed a mobile home in Peach Valley, east of Delta. No one was injured. Time estimated.
July 2006Flash FloodDelta$40,000no account filed
October 2001LightningDelta$28,000no account filed
September 2002Flash FloodDelta$25,000no account filed
September 2002Tornado (F1)Delta$25,000no account filed
May 2001Thunderstorm WindDelta$20,000no account filed
August 2000LightningDelta$3,000no account filed
March 2001FloodDelta$2,000no account filed
June 2009Heavy RainDelta-Heavy rainfall caused street flooding in the southern part of the town of Delta, including the area around 12th and Main Street.
August 2006Heavy RainDelta-no account filed
June 2005Thunderstorm WindDelta-no account filed
August 2003Funnel CloudDelta-no account filed
August 2003Funnel CloudDelta-no account filed
September 2002Funnel CloudDelta-no account filed
August 2001FloodDelta-no account filed
August 2001HailDelta-no account filed
July 2001HailDelta-no account filed
July 2001FloodDelta-no account filed
July 2000HailDelta-no account filed
July 1998Funnel CloudDelta-no account filed
June 1996Thunderstorm WindDelta-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Delta 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

5 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
First Methodist Episcopal Church of Deltaunder 500 feet1991
US Post Office and Federal Building-Delta Main0.1 miles1986
Delta County Bank Building0.1 miles1993
Garnethurst0.4 miles1995
Delta Municipal Light & Power Plant0.6 miles2024

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 93000575 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Delta CountyAll 16 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.