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One of 50 National Register listings published here for Marin County · listed in 2018 · category: Building.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Point Reyes Naval Radio Compass Station
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2018. 12 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1916.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
- Address. 23250 Sir Francis Drake Blvd., Inverness, 94937
- When was it listed? June 2018
- Category. building
- Census division. Northwest Marin
- National Register reference number. 100002619 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Then and now
1916 to 1995The ground this property stands on, surveyed 79 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
Fires near this property
18 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 18 fires within 5 miles of Point Reyes Naval Radio Compass Station between 1992 and 2020, burning about 8 acres in total. 1 started naturally. None 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 |
|---|---|
| Recreation and ceremony | 10 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4 |
| Fireworks | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Natural | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 1992 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Point Reyes National Seashore | JOHNSONS |
| 4 September 2007 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Point Reyes National Seashore | SOUTH BEACH LOG |
| 27 September 2020 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 5.6 acres | Point Reyes National Seashore | LIGHT |
| 12 September 2017 | Natural | under an acre | Point Reyes National Seashore | A RANCH |
| 11 September 2011 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Point Reyes National Seashore | NORTH BEACH 2 |
| 8 August 1998 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Point Reyes National Seashore | NORTHBEACH |
| 5 August 2002 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Point Reyes National Seashore | ATT |
| 30 August 1998 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Point Reyes National Seashore | N2 BEACH |
Mines and quarries near this property
4 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Point Reyes Naval Radio Compass Station: 1 past producer, 1 occurrence, 1 unknown, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Gemstone, 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.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Unknown | ||
| Unnamed Location | Gemstone | Occurrence | ||
| Sulsan Bay Dredge | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Unnamed Location | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Storms near this property
3 since 2019Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Inverness, the town this property stands in, in 3 storm reports in 2019: 3 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| February 2019 | Flood | Inverness | - | Roadway flooding Sr Francis Drake Blvd and Mount Vision Fire Rd. |
| February 2019 | Flood | Inverness | - | Sir Francis Drake Blvd by Vision Rd is flooded and currently impassable, Pierce Point Rd by Keohe Beach Trailhead is also flooded. |
| February 2019 | Flood | Inverness | - | Roads between Inverness and Point Reyes are closed due to flooding. |
Maps showing this location
12 surveysUnited States Geological Survey topographic sheets whose coverage includes this point. Matched by taking the coordinate the National Park Service records for this property, then testing that coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet.
- 1916 USGS Point Reyes quadrangle1:48000
- 1916 USGS Point Reyes quadrangle1:62500
- 1918 USGS Point Reyes quadrangle1:62500 - 6 printings
- 1947 USGS Santa Rosa quadrangle1:250000
- 1949 USGS Santa Rosa quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
- 1953 USGS Drakes Bay quadrangle1:24000 - 8 printings
- 1954 USGS Point Reyes quadrangle1:62500 - 5 printings
- 1958 USGS Santa Rosa quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
- 1962 USGS Santa Rosa quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Santa Rosa quadrangle1:250000
- 1983 USGS Napa quadrangle1:100000
- 1995 USGS Drakes Bay quadrangle1:24000
Listed places nearby
4 within 8 milesOther 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Point Reyes Light Station | 3.0 miles | 1991 |
 | Point Reyes Lifeboat Rescue Station, 1927 | 3.0 miles | 1985 |
| RCA Point Reyes Receiving Station | 4.8 miles | 2018 | |
| Point Reyes Peninsula Dairy Ranches Historic District | 5.8 miles | 2018 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100002619 in Record Group 79. |
| Marin County | All 50 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.