Army Theatre

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.

From the record

One of 14 National Register listings published here for Dawes County · listed in 1988 · category: Building.

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

The listing

Address. Fort Robinson State Park, Crawford, 69339
When was it listed? July 1988
Category. building
Also known as. Opera House Buildings in Nebraska 1867-1917 MPS
Precinct. Precinct 10
National Register reference number. 88000930 - 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

32 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 32 fires within 5 miles of Army Theatre between 1997 and 2020, burning about 45 acres in total. 16 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
Natural	16
Railroad operations and maintenance	4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3
Fireworks	3
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Debris and open burning	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2

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
28 September 2007	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
24 September 2018	Natural	1.0 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
20 September 2007	Power generation/transmission/distribution	1.0 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
16 September 1997	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Nebraska National Forest	QUONSET
1 September 2003	Natural	under an acre	Nebraska National Forest	CHIMNEY
1 September 2003	Natural	9.0 acres	Nebraska National Forest	MIDDLE
1 September 2003	Natural	9.2 acres	Nebraska National Forest	SOUTH
30 August 2003	Natural	under an acre	Nebraska National Forest	FORK

Every fire recorded in Dawes County

Storms near this property

60 of 63 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Crawford, the town this property stands in, in 63 storm reports between 1994 and 2023: 51 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind, 3 funnel cloud, 2 tornado. The reports record 1 injury. 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 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Crawford	1 hurt, $100,000	Estimated 70 mph thunderstorm winds uprooted some trees and knockedout power in Crawford.
August 1996	Lightning	Crawford	$400,000	no account filed
June 1998	Hail	Crawford	$6,500	A storm produced walnut size hail in Crawford.
July 2023	Hail	Crawford	-	Report received of dented cars and 1.25 inch hail.
August 2023	Hail	Crawford	-	Spotter reported quarter sized hail 11 miles north of Crawford.
August 2021	Hail	Crawford	-	Trained spotter reported quarter sized hail in Crawford.
August 2021	Hail	Crawford	-	Trained spotter measured ping pong ball sized hail in Crawford.
June 2020	Hail	Crawford	-	Large hail damaged resident's windows and neighbor's car.
June 2018	Hail	Crawford	-	Quarter to half dollar size hail was observed just west of Chadron State Park.
July 2017	Hail	Crawford	-	Half dollar size hail was observed.
June 2016	Hail	Crawford	-	Quarter size hail was reported 11 miles north of Crawford.
June 2016	Hail	Crawford	-	Quarter to half dollar size hail was reported seven miles southeast of Crawford.
June 2015	Hail	Crawford	-	Golf ball size hail was observed at Crawford.
June 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Crawford	-	Wind gusts were estimated at 60 mph at Crawford.
June 2014	Hail	Crawford	-	Quarter size hail was observed in Crawford.
July 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Crawford	-	Wind gusts of 60 mph were estimated in Crawford.
August 2014	Hail	Crawford	-	Penny to quarter size hail covered the ground south of Crawford.
September 2014	Heavy Rain	Crawford	-	A spotter measured 4.51 inches of rain.
August 2013	Hail	Crawford	-	Quarter size hail was reported north of Crawford.
September 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Crawford	-	An estimated wind gust of 60 mph was reported north of Crawford.
May 2013	Hail	Crawford	-	Penny to quarter size hail was reported eight miles southeast of Crawford.
May 2013	Hail	Crawford	-	Nickel to quarter size hail was reported.
May 2013	Funnel Cloud	Crawford	-	The Chadron warning point relayed 15 reports of funnel clouds north of Crawford.
May 2013	Tornado (EF0)	Crawford	-	The Chadron Warning Point received three reports of a tornado on the ground north of Crawford. No damage was reported.
May 2012	Hail	Crawford	-	Quarter sized hail was reported.
July 2011	Hail	Crawford	-	Hail was accompanied by heavy rain and gusty wind.
July 2011	Hail	Crawford	-	Dime to quarter size hail.
June 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Crawford	-	The public reported tree limbs blown down.
August 2009	Hail	Crawford	-	Hail was reported from 1/2 up to 1 inch in diameter over the area.
June 2009	Hail	Crawford	-	Hail from 3/4 to 1 inch in diameter was reported.
April 2008	Hail	Crawford	-	Hail from 1.25 to 1.75 inches in diameter fell between Crawford and Whitney, Nebraska.
July 2007	Hail	Crawford	-	Nickel to Quarter sized hail reported in Crawford.
July 2005	Hail	Crawford	-	1 inch to 1.75 inch diameter hail reported.
July 2004	Tornado (F0)	Crawford	-	Brief touchdown over open rangeland.
July 1999	Hail	Crawford	-	3/4 inch hail reported 9 miles south of Crawford, NE
June 1999	Hail	Crawford	-	Nickel size hail reported 11 miles north of Crawford, NE
July 2020	Hail	Crawford	-	no account filed
June 2020	Hail	Crawford	-	no account filed
June 2019	Hail	Crawford	-	no account filed
June 2019	Hail	Crawford	-	no account filed
June 2019	Hail	Crawford	-	no account filed
June 2019	Hail	Crawford	-	no account filed
May 2018	Hail	Crawford	-	no account filed
July 2011	Hail	Crawford	-	no account filed
May 2011	Hail	Crawford	-	no account filed
July 2011	Funnel Cloud	Crawford	-	no account filed
July 2010	Hail	Crawford	-	no account filed
May 2010	Hail	Crawford	-	no account filed
May 2010	Hail	Crawford	-	no account filed
April 2008	Hail	Crawford	-	no account filed
June 2008	Hail	Crawford	-	no account filed
March 2007	Hail	Crawford	-	no account filed
June 2007	Hail	Crawford	-	no account filed
May 2005	Hail	Crawford	-	no account filed
July 2004	Hail	Crawford	-	no account filed
June 2003	Hail	Crawford	-	no account filed
June 2002	Hail	Crawford	-	no account filed
May 2000	Hail	Crawford	-	no account filed
May 2000	Hail	Crawford	-	no account filed
July 2000	Hail	Crawford	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Dawes 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

3 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
Fort Robinson and Red Cloud Agency	0.9 miles	1966
Co-operative Block Building	3.0 miles	1985
US Post Office-Crawford	3.1 miles	1992

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 88000930 in Record Group 79.
Dawes County	All 14 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.
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.