Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.
From the record
“Thompson's Opera House, previously known as Brown's Hall, Brown's Opera House and the Gem Theater, is a small theater building in Pioche, Nevada. The Opera House is a wood-frame building built in 1873, attached roughly to the adjoining brick Gem Theater, a 1937 masonry cinema.”
Wikipedia article Thompson's Opera House, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 8 National Register listings published here for Lincoln County · listed in 1984 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.84002074- 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
114 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 114 fires within 5 miles of Brown's Hall-Thompson's Opera House
between 1992 and 2020, burning about 3,439 acres in total. 95 started naturally. 6 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
Natural
95
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
12
Arson/incendiarism
6
Equipment and vehicle use
1
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
126 workings within 5 miles of Brown's Hall-Thompson's Opera House: 80 past producers, 20 occurrences, 20 prospects, 3 producers.
6 still produce. What was taken out: Lead, Silver, Silver, Lead, Zinc. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Pioche, the town this property stands in, in 17 storm reports between 1998 and 2022: 11 flash flood, 4 hail, 1 tornado, 1 thunderstorm wind.
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.
There was flash flooding in the Pioche and Panaca areas, including an eight mile stretch of Highway 322 east of Pioche. Highway 93 was starting to wash out near mile marker 113. At Cathedral Gorge State Park, a guardrail was taken out by flood water, and the campground was inundated with four feet of water.
Water entered the basement of a home in Pioche, damaging two bedrooms. Rocks and debris accumulated on several streets. 2.73 inches of rain fell in two hours.
The Lincoln County Sheriff reported a brief touchdown of a weak tornado in an open field between Pioche and Echo Canyon State Park. The tornado disturbed some irrigation pipes, but no significant damage was reported.
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
4 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.
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.
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