Rivoli Theatre

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001. 12 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1909.

From the record

“The Rivoli Theatre in South Fallsburg, New York, United States is located at the intersection of NY 42 and Laurel Avenue. It was built in 1923, renovated in the late 1930s and remains almost intact from that period.”
Wikipedia article Rivoli Theatre (South Fallsburg, New York), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 79 National Register listings published here for Sullivan County · listed in 2001 · 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. Jct. of NY 42 and Laurel Ave., South Fallsburg, 12779
When was it listed? January 2001
Category. building
Town. Fallsburg town
National Register reference number. 00001691 - 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

221 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 221 fires within 5 miles of Rivoli Theatre between 1992 and 2020, burning about 239 acres in total. 15 started naturally. 19 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
Smoking	70
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	62
Arson/incendiarism	19
Debris and open burning	17
Natural	15
Equipment and vehicle use	11
Power generation/transmission/distribution	10
Recreation and ceremony	6
Misuse of fire by a minor	6
Other causes	5

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
26 September 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
24 September 2016	Smoking	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
24 September 2014	Smoking	1.2 acres	Fire Department of New York	N/A
23 September 2010	Smoking	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
21 September 2007	Smoking	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
11 September 2008	Smoking	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
10 September 2002	Recreation and ceremony	2.0 acres	New York Forest Rangers	not named
1 September 2010	Smoking	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Every fire recorded in Sullivan County

Mines and quarries near this property

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Rivoli Theatre: 3 producers, 1 past producer. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Goodwin Sand and Gravel, Inc.	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Maston Lake Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Maston Lake Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Monticello Black Top Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Sullivan County

Maps showing this location

12 surveys

United States Geological Survey topographic sheets whose coverage includes this point. Matched by taking the coordinate the National Park Service records for this property, then testing that coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet.

1909 USGS Monticello quadrangle1:62500
1911 USGS Monticello quadrangle1:62500 - 6 printings
1943 USGS Monticello quadrangle1:62500 - 3 printings
1943 USGS Monticello quadrangle1:125000
1944 USGS Monticello quadrangle1:62500
1950 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000
1953 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1962 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1965 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1966 USGS Monticello quadrangle1:24000 - 3 printings
1986 USGS Monticello quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings

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
South Fallsburg Hebrew Association Synagogue	0.7 miles	2000
Glen Wild Methodist Church	3.4 miles	1984
Ohave Shalom Synagogue	3.4 miles	2000
Bennett Family House	3.8 miles	2001
Broadway Historic District	3.9 miles	2020
Rialto Theatre	4.0 miles	2001

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 00001691 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Sullivan County	All 79 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.