Built in 1913. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.
From the record
“The Ruby Theater is a small movie theater located in Chelan, Washington. Built in 1914, it was named after Ruby Potter, the step-daughter of its manager, Frank Potter.”
Wikipedia article Ruby Theater (Chelan, Washington), CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 46 National Register listings published here for Chelan County · listed in 1991 · category: Building · built in 1913.
Also known as. Movie Theaters in Washington State MPS
Census division. Chelan
When was it built? 1913
National Register reference number.91001495- 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
52 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 52 fires within 5 miles of Ruby Theater
between 1992 and 2020, burning about 101,066 acres in total. 20 started naturally. 1 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
20
Debris and open burning
10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
8
Other causes
4
Recreation and ceremony
3
Fireworks
2
Misuse of fire by a minor
1
Power generation/transmission/distribution
1
Equipment and vehicle use
1
Firearms and explosives use
1
Arson/incendiarism
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
4 September 1992
Arson/incendiarism
5.0 acres
Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters
not named
18 September 2020
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
under an acre
Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters
UNION 3
13 September 1996
Natural
175 acres
Spokane District
DEER MTN
6 August 1999
Natural
under an acre
Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters
not named
5 August 2003
Natural
440 acres
Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest
THE BUTTE
5 August 2003
Natural
under an acre
Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters
not named
3 August 1999
Natural
168 acres
Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters
UNION VALLEY
17 August 2018
Natural
under an acre
Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
20 workings within 5 miles of Ruby Theater: 15 past producers, 3 occurrences, 1 unknown, 1 prospect.
None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Gold, Pumice, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Chelan, the town this property stands in, in 18 storm reports between 1997 and 2022: 10 hail, 3 wildfire, 2 flash flood, 1 lightning.
The reports record 6 injuries. 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.
Lightning sparked a large fire at Twenty five mile creek on Lake Chelan. Over 6300 acres of forest land have burned. The fire was allowed to burn out and will not be officially out until mid October.
The "Rex Creek Complex" of fires resulted from numerous lightning strikes early on the morning of August 12. One vacation home on the north shore of Lake Chelan was destroyed in the first day of the fires' existence. Over half of the acres burned in this complex of fires were on federally-designated wilderness land. The fire burned until late September, scorching over 50,000 acres.
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
5 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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