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Atlas Theatre

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.

From the record

“The Atlas Theatre, also known as the Atlas Building, at 213 W. 16th St. in Cheyenne, Wyoming, was dating from 1887 and was built out as a theatre in 1908. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.”

Wikipedia article Atlas Theatre, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 60 National Register listings published here for Laramie County · listed in 1973 · category: Building.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · 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. 213 W. 16th St., Cheyenne, 82001
  • When was it listed? April 1973
  • Category. building
  • Census division. Cheyenne
  • National Register reference number. 73001933 - 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

301 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 301 fires within 5 miles of Atlas Theatre between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,022 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 3 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/undetermined101
Debris and open burning62
Fireworks36
Railroad operations and maintenance23
Misuse of fire by a minor20
Recreation and ceremony18
Equipment and vehicle use16
Smoking11
Natural9
Arson/incendiarism3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
8 September 2004Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreWyoming State Forestrynot named
30 September 2006Debris and open burningunder an acreWyoming State Forestrynot named
3 September 2006Smokingunder an acreWyoming State Forestrynot named
26 September 2020Natural100 acresWyoming State ForestryMULLEN FIRE
26 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWyoming State Forestrynot named
24 September 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresWyoming State Forestrynot named
24 September 2003Debris and open burningunder an acreWyoming State Forestrynot named
22 September 2018Power generation/transmission/distribution5.0 acresLaramie CountyROAD 124 FIRE

Every fire recorded in Laramie County

Mines and quarries near this property

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Atlas Theatre: 4 producers, 1 past producer. 4 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Mccard Pit No 1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Read Ready-Mix Pit & PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Teton Gravel & WashingSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Teton Pit #1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Yramius Paul Tracy RanchSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Laramie County

Storms near this property

60 of 438 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cheyenne, the town this property stands in, in 438 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 334 hail, 47 thunderstorm wind, 25 flash flood, 11 tornado. The reports record 1 injury. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 1994Thunderstorm WindCheyenne1 hurtMicroburst winds roared across central and eastern Laramie county, including the city of Cheyenne, producing damage and downing trees. One woman broke her arm when the winds knocked her off balance and to the ground. Major roof damage occurred at Cheyenne Central High School, while windows were blown out of the west side of a home in northeast Cheyenne. Winds in the northeast part of the city were estimated at 100 mph! A gust of 84 mph was clocked at the Cheyenne airport. Nineteen power poles were snapped off in east Cheyenne leaving hundreds of homes without power there for up to eight hours. Several homes under construction and barns in east Cheyenne were leveled by the winds. Funnel clouds were also reported by a sheriffs deputy as the storm moved through eastern Laramie county, but none touched down.
August 2002HailCheyenne$30,000,000Hail from 1 inch up to 2.75 inches in diameter fell over mainly the central and western parts of the city of Cheyenne, WY. Significant damage was reported to automobiles and roofs.
July 1996HailCheyenne$4,000,000no account filed
July 1996HailCheyenne$3,400,000no account filed
August 1996HailCheyenne$2,400,000no account filed
August 2025HailCheyenne$1,000,000Emergency manager reported base ball sized hail in Cheyenne.|Estimated property damage citywide from all reports with this event total at least $1 million per Laramie County EMA.
May 2007Thunderstorm WindCheyenne$30,000Strong microburst winds produced some damage to mainly the western side of Cheyenne, including a report of a trailer blown into a power pole. Some|damage to signage occurred along with damage to a dugout building at a local ballpark. Some hail up to 3/4 inch in diameter was also reported.
June 2003HailCheyenne$30,0001 1/2 to 2 inch diameter hail reported.
August 1996HailCheyenne$30,000no account filed
August 1996FloodCheyenne$30,000no account filed
June 2007HailCheyenne$25,000A slow moving severe thunderstorm produced hail from 1 to 1.75 inches in diameter along a track from south of Cheyenne to Hillsdale, Wyoming, about 16 miles east of Cheyenne. Some windows and skylights were broken in Hillsdale, WY.
June 1997HailCheyenne$25,000no account filed
June 2009HailCheyenne$20,000Hail from 1 to 1.75 inches in diameter fell northeast of Cheyenne, WY, damaging some roofs and cars.
May 2008Tornado (EF1)Cheyenne$20,000Tornado tracked over open country, but did destroy a pole barn.
July 2006Flash FloodCheyenne$20,000A thunderstorm produced very heavy rain over far western Laramie county. Floodwaters producedsevere wash-away damage to county roads 110 and 110-A near Happy Jack Road with water reported to have flowed almost a foot deep over Happy Jack Road.
June 1997HailCheyenne$20,000no account filed
August 1996HailCheyenne$20,000no account filed
August 1996HailCheyenne$20,000no account filed
July 1998HailCheyenne$15,000A storm produced quarter size hail 9 miles south of Cheyenne. The hail covered the ground and wind driven hail broke some automobile windshields.
July 1997HailCheyenne$10,000no account filed
July 1996FloodCheyenne$10,000no account filed
August 1996HailCheyenne$10,000no account filed
August 1996FloodCheyenne$10,000no account filed
July 1996Thunderstorm WindCheyenne$5,000no account filed
August 1996HailCheyenne$5,000no account filed
May 2010Thunderstorm WindCheyenne$4,000House had roof damage.
May 1998HailCheyenne$4,000A storm produced golf ball size hail 20 miles north of Cheyenne.
July 1998HailCheyenne$3,000Spotters reported quarter size hail on the Terry Bison Ranch 10 miles southwest of Cheyenne.
June 1997HailCheyenne$3,000Hail piled to a 4 inch depth.
May 2010Thunderstorm WindCheyenne$2,500Out building had roof removed.
May 2010HailCheyenne$2,000Windows on south side of house are broken.
July 2007Flash FloodCheyenne$2,000County road 109 washed out in 2 places with up to a foot of water across the road.
May 1998HailCheyenne$2,000A thunderstorm produced golf ball size hail along interstate 25, 22 miles north of Cheyenne.
June 1997Tornado (F1)Cheyenne$2,000Anticyclonic tornado touched near intersection of Four Mile Road and College Drive, destroying a storage shed.
May 1999Tornado (F0)Cheyenne$2,000no account filed
June 1997HailCheyenne$2,000no account filed
May 2010Thunderstorm WindCheyenne$1,000Three quarters of a mile of fence was pulled out of ground by strong thunderstorm winds.
May 2010Flash FloodCheyenne$1,000Flooding on access roads between Archer and Hillsdale at exits 370 and 377 of Interstate 80.
August 1997FloodCheyenne$1,000Two to three feet of water flooded intersections in southern Cheyenne.
August 1996HailCheyenne$1,000no account filed
May 2010HailCheyenne$900Strong winds overturned storage building. Also broke small trees, windows and screens.
May 2010Thunderstorm WindCheyenne$600Shop doors blown off. Wind gust measured by Davis Instruments equipment.
May 2010HailCheyenne$500Windshield broken.
August 1997Thunderstorm WindCheyenne$500Large cottonwood tree blown down at F.E. Warren Air Force Base.
July 1996Thunderstorm WindCheyenne$500no account filed
June 2025HailCheyenne-Public reported 1.00 to 1.25 inch diameter hail east of Cheyenne.
August 2025HailCheyenne-Mping report of ping pong ball sized hail.
August 2025HailCheyenne-Mping report of hen egg sized hail.
August 2025HailCheyenne-Public report of golf ball sized hail.
August 2025HailCheyenne-Mping report of ping pong ball sized hail.
August 2025HailCheyenne-Mping report of tennis ball sized hail.
July 2025Flash FloodCheyenne-Report from mPING of street flooding.
July 2025Flash FloodCheyenne-Emergency manager reported street flooding throughout entire drive up to Frontier Park.
July 2025Flash FloodCheyenne-Social media report of a car that stalled attempting to drive through the Ames underpass in downtown Cheyenne. Report states that there was a foot of water on the shallow side and 2 feet on the deep side.
June 2025HailCheyenne-Public reports quarter size hail.
August 2024Thunderstorm WindCheyenne-UPR site UP226, EMKAY reported this peak wind gust.
May 2023HailCheyenne-Received report from mPING.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindCheyenne-Roof damage to an apartment complex where a portion of the roof was blown off the structure.
July 2023HailCheyenne-Public reports of half dollar sized hail.
July 2023HailCheyenne-Public reports of half dollar sized hail.

Every storm recorded in Laramie 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 73001933 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Laramie CountyAll 60 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.