Sand Island Light

Built in 1838. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.

From the record

“Sand Island Light, also known as Sand Island Lighthouse, is a decommissioned lighthouse located at the southernmost point of the state of Alabama, United States, near Dauphin Island, at the mouth of Mobile Bay. It is located roughly 3 mi (4.8 km) offshore from the primary Mobile Bay entrance, bounded on the east by Mobile Point and on the west by Dauphin Island.”
Wikipedia article Sand Island Light (Alabama), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 61 National Register listings published here for Baldwin County · listed in 1975 · category: Structure · built in 1838, by Paul J. Pelz.

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 structure as contributing to the listing.
Address. SW of Fort Morgan off Mobile Point, Fort Morgan
When was it listed? November 1975
Category. structure
When was it built? 1838
Architect. Paul J. Pelz
National Register reference number. 75000305 - 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

5 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Sand Island Light between 1995 and 2018, burning about 35 acres in total. None 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
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Recreation and ceremony	1
Fireworks	1
Arson/incendiarism	1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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
29 September 1995	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Bon Secour National Wildlife Refuge	FTMORGANRV
27 August 2011	Arson/incendiarism	30 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	109 BIENVILLE BLVD., AL
2 August 1998	Recreation and ceremony	3.0 acres	Bon Secour National Wildlife Refuge	F+MGNCAMP
13 July 2012	Fireworks	1.0 acres	Bon Secour National Wildlife Refuge	FORT MORGAN FIREWORKS
5 January 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	20180105-3

Every fire recorded in Baldwin County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Sand Island Light: 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Titanium, Metal, Zirconium. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Dauphine Island Offshore Sands	Titanium, Metal, Zirconium	Occurrence	Placer

Every working recorded in Baldwin 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

2 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.

Photograph	Property	Distance	Listed
	Fort Morgan Casemates	3.2 miles	1966
	U.S.S. TECUMSEH	3.4 miles	1975

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 75000305 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Baldwin County	All 61 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.