Photograph of Casino Star Theatre — Photograph by P. Kent Fairbanks, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Casino Theatre

Built in 1912 (Beaux-Arts). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.

From the record

“The Casino Theatre, is a theater in Gunnison, Utah, United States, that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It is the oldest functioning theater in Utah as it was built in 1912.”
Wikipedia article Casino Theatre (Gunnison, Utah), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 83 National Register listings published here for Sanpete County · listed in 1989 · category: Building · built in 1912, Beaux-Arts.

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. 78 S. Main St., Gunnison, 84634
When was it listed? September 1989
Category. building
Census division. Gunnison
When was it built? 1912
Architectural style. Beaux-Arts
National Register reference number. 89001416 - 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

34 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 34 fires within 5 miles of Casino Theatre between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,183 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 2 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	12
Natural	8
Debris and open burning	4
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Recreation and ceremony	2
Arson/incendiarism	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Fireworks	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
11 September 1992	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	JOHANSEN CONSTRUCTION
8 August 1995	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	SUGAR FACTORY LANE
7 August 1995	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	SANPITCH RIVER
6 August 1998	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	LUND FIRE
30 August 2020	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Central Area	DOVER RD
28 August 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	CUFC 16
25 August 2011	Natural	under an acre	Richfield Field Office	MAY EAST
23 August 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	HANSEN LANE

Every fire recorded in Sanpete County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 27 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 27 workings within 5 miles of Casino Theatre: 18 past producers, 8 occurrences, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Dimension, Gypsum-Anhydrite, Stone. 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
Gunnison Limestone Prospects	Stone	Past Producer
Mayfield Gypsum Deposit	Gypsum-Anhydrite	Occurrence
Mayfield Gypsum Deposit	Gypsum-Anhydrite	Past Producer
Gunnison Limestone Prospects	Stone, Dimension	Occurrence	Limestone
Gunnison Sec. 35 Quarry	Stone, Dimension	Past Producer	Calcite
Gunnison Sec. 5 Quarry	Stone, Dimension	Occurrence	Calcite
East Centerfield Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Gravel
Gravel Hills Deposit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Gunnison Sand Deposit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Occurrence
Gunnison Sand Deposit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Occurrence

Every working recorded in Sanpete County

Storms near this property

4 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Gunnison, the town this property stands in, in 4 storm reports between 1997 and 2001: 1 flood, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 1 flash flood. 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
May 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Gunnison	$50,000	no account filed
June 1997	Flood	Gunnison	$20,000	Heavy rain caused flooding at the state prison in Gunnison causing some damage. A nearby spotter measured 1.38" of rain on this date.
July 2001	Flash Flood	Gunnison	$2,000	A flash flood occurred in Lone Cedar Canyon, southwest of Gunnison. A County road was washed out in several places, and about 60 acres of hay was damaged.
May 2000	Tornado (F0)	Gunnison	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Sanpete 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
Oberg-Metcalf House	under 500 feet	1997
James and Caroline M. Metcalf House	0.8 miles	1998
Centerfield School and Meetinghouse	2.1 miles	2000

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 89001416 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Sanpete County	All 83 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.
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.