Photograph of Lincoln Theatre — Photograph by Carl Waluconis, CC BY-SA 4.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Lincoln Theater and Commercial Block

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.

From the record

One of 33 National Register listings published here for Skagit County · listed in 1987 · category: Building.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. 301--329 Kincaid St. & 710--740 First St., Mt. Vernon, 98273
When was it listed? November 1987
Category. building
Census division. Mount Vernon
Architectural style. Renaissance Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 87001987 - 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

28 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 28 fires within 5 miles of Lincoln Theater and Commercial Block between 1992 and 2020, burning about 17 acres in total. None 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
Recreation and ceremony	10
Fireworks	7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4
Debris and open burning	4
Arson/incendiarism	2
Smoking	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
19 September 1992	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
5 August 1998	Recreation and ceremony	5.0 acres	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
27 August 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
26 August 2017	Recreation and ceremony	1.2 acres	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	BIG ROCK
24 August 2002	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
17 August 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	ROTTEN DOG
14 August 2003	Arson/incendiarism	1.5 acres	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
5 July 2011	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Washington State Fire Marshal's Office	GUNDERSON

Every fire recorded in Skagit County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 42 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 42 workings within 5 miles of Lincoln Theater and Commercial Block: 15 unknowns, 12 producers, 7 occurrences, 6 past producers. 12 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Nickel, Gold, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone, Dimension. 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
Big Lake	Graphite, Chromium	Occurrence
Burlington	Asbestos	Past Producer
Cornelius Magnesite,Nickel-Gold Dep	Magnesite, Nickel, Gold	Prospect
Mount Vernon	Chromium, Nickel, Gold	Occurrence
Mount Vernon	Nickel, Gold, Magnesite	Occurrence
Mount Vernon Deposit	Nickel, Gold, Silver, Chromium	Prospect	1936
Nookachamp Creek	Diatomite	Occurrence
Tilon	Clay	Past Producer
Wind River	Gemstone	Producer
Burlington	Stone	Occurrence

Every working recorded in Skagit 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

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
President Hotel	0.2 miles	2010
Skagit City School	3.6 miles	1977
Burlington Carnegie Library	4.1 miles	1982
Bethsaida Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church Parsonage	5.2 miles	1990
US Post Office-Sedro Woolley Main	7.5 miles	1991
La Conner Historic District	7.5 miles	1974

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 87001987 in Record Group 79.
Skagit County	All 33 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.