Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993.
From the record
“The Central Theater was built in Ely, Nevada from 1939 to 1941. The Art Deco style cinema was built by Percy and Warren Hull after they were denied permission to expand Ely's Capital Theater, which opened in 1916.”
Wikipedia article Central Theater, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 21 National Register listings published here for White Pine County · listed in 1993 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.93000691- 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
91 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 91 fires within 5 miles of Central Theater
between 1992 and 2020, burning about 12,072 acres in total. 52 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
52
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
27
Recreation and ceremony
6
Railroad operations and maintenance
4
Fireworks
2
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
60 workings within 5 miles of Central Theater: 39 past producers, 11 unknowns, 5 occurrences, 2 producers.
4 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Copper, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Silver. 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
Ely, the town this property stands in, in 7 storm reports between 1998 and 2022: 4 flash flood, 2 tornado, 1 hail.
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.
Spotter reported via Facebook, that water running over US Highway 50, about 2 miles SE of Ruth. The observer sent a photo and estimated the water was about 6 to 12 inches over the road. Some sand and silt were noted in the photo as well.
A brief weak tornado touched down over Mosier Canyon , about 5 miles southeast of downtown Ely. No damage was reported as this occurred over open country.
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.
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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