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Rialto Theater

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.

From the record

“The Rialto Theater in Deer Lodge, Montana was built in 1921 with 720 seats. The Beaux Arts style theater featured extensive painted murals, artistic plaster designs, and a painted stage backgrounds.”
Wikipedia article Rialto Theater (Deer Lodge, Montana), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 20 National Register listings published here for Powell County · listed in 1998 · 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. 418 Main St., Dear Lodge, 59722
When was it listed? February 1998
Category. building
Census division. Deer Lodge
Architectural style. Beaux-Arts
National Register reference number. 98000124 - 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

14 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Rialto Theater between 1992 and 2018, burning about 70 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
Railroad operations and maintenance	4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Debris and open burning	2
Recreation and ceremony	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Smoking	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
24 September 2018	Railroad operations and maintenance	4.2 acres	Grant-Kohrs Ranch National Historic Site	RAILROAD II
6 August 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4.0 acres	Southwestern Land Office	not named
31 August 1998	Railroad operations and maintenance	1.5 acres	Southwestern Land Office	FRONTAGE ROAD
31 July 2006	Equipment and vehicle use	2.8 acres	Southwestern Land Office	not named
22 July 2007	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Grant-Kohrs Ranch National Historic Site	GRAVEL PIT FIRE
2 July 2012	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	Grant-Kohrs Ranch National Historic Site	RAILROAD 2
2 July 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7.0 acres	Grant-Kohrs Ranch National Historic Site	RAILROAD 3-6
12 July 1992	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Southwestern Land Office	BECK

Every fire recorded in Powell County

Mines and quarries near this property

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Rialto Theater: 5 occurrences, 1 unknown, 1 producer, 1 prospect. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Pumice, Silver, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Manganese. 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
Champion Tailings Mine	Silver	Unknown
Deer Lodge Manganese	Manganese	Prospect
Mastodon Sand and Gravel	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Mullan Gulch Pumice Deposit	Pumice	Occurrence	Pumice
South Deer Lodge Pumice Deposit	Pumice	Occurrence	Pumice
Taylor Creek Ash	Pumice	Occurrence
Unnamed Pumice	Pumice	Occurrence
Unnamed Pumice	Pumice	Occurrence

Every working recorded in Powell 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
Deer Lodge Central Business Historic District	0.1 miles	2008
William E. Coleman House	0.3 miles	1979
Robworth Apartments	0.3 miles	2023
Deer Lodge American Women's League Chapter House	0.4 miles	1982
Nick J. Bielenberg House	0.4 miles	1979
Trask Hall	0.5 miles	1982

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 98000124 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Powell County	All 20 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.