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Photograph of Battery Point Light
Photograph by Kathleen Franklin from Marysville, CA, USA, CC BY 2.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Cresent City Lighthouse

Built in 1856. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. 10 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1929.

From the record

“Battery Point Light is a lighthouse in Crescent City, California, United States. It is registered as a California Historical Landmark, and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as "Crescent City Lighthouse".”

Wikipedia article Battery Point Light, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 6 National Register listings published here for Del Norte County · listed in 1983 · category: Building · built in 1856.

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 3 structuress, 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. A St., Battery Point Island, Crescent City
  • When was it listed? September 1983
  • Category. building
  • Census division. Crescent City
  • When was it built? 1856
  • National Register reference number. 83001177 - 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.

Then and now

1929 to 1983

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 54 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Cresent City Lighthouse, surveyed 1983
Topographic sheet covering Cresent City Lighthouse, surveyed 1929

Fires near this property

463 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 463 fires within 5 miles of Cresent City Lighthouse between 1992 and 2020, burning about 216 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 28 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 ceremony207
Missing data/not specified/undetermined128
Debris and open burning38
Arson/incendiarism28
Equipment and vehicle use24
Misuse of fire by a minor22
Smoking8
Fireworks4
Natural3
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreHumboldt-Del Norte UnitMICHAGIN
8 September 2007Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreRedwood National and State ParksENDERTS BEACH #8
8 September 2004Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreHumboldt-Del Norte UnitBURTSCHELL
7 September 2008Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreRedwood National and State ParksCRESCENT BEACH 14
7 September 2008Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreRedwood National and State ParksCRESCENT BEACH 13
7 September 1998Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresHumboldt-Del Norte UnitCREEK
6 September 2015Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreHumboldt-Del Norte UnitHUMBOLDT RD / HODGE AVE
6 September 2008Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreRedwood National and State ParksCRESCENT BEACH 12

Every fire recorded in Del Norte County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 15 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 15 workings within 5 miles of Cresent City Lighthouse: 6 producers, 4 occurrences, 4 past producers, 1 unknown. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Gold, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Platinum. 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
Crescent City BeachGold, Platinum, Titanium, Metal, Iron, ChromiumProducer1855, 1914
Crescent City Beach DepositsChromium, IronOccurrence
Uvaldon V MillerClayProducer
Elk Valley Quarry #1Stone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Elk Valley Quarry #2Stone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Elk Valley Pit and MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Rellim Redwood CoSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
SarinaGold, PlatinumPast Producer
Smith River Pit and MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Yates Beach MineGold, PlatinumUnknown

Every working recorded in Del Norte County

Storms near this property

8 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Crescent City, the town this property stands in, in 8 storm reports between 1996 and 2022: 2 wildfire, 2 heavy rain, 1 tornado, 1 rip current. The reports record 1 death. 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
March 2001Rip CurrentCrescent City1 killedA youth visiting the beach with a group from Ashland, Oregon was swept of a rock at Preston Island by a large wave. Currents then carried the youth about 100 yards offshore where deputies lost visual contact.
February 2017Heavy RainCrescent City$600,000Culvert failures between mile post 20 and 28 along Highway 101.
February 2017Heavy RainCrescent City$200,000Culvert failures along Highway 101 from mile post 26 to 27.
November 2022HailCrescent City$5,000Auto accident due to hail covered roads. No injuries.
January 1996Tornado (F0)Crescent City$1,000no account filed
December 2002Funnel CloudCrescent City-Spotters reported numerous cold air funnels over the Pacific Ocean near Crescent City.
July 2002WildfireCrescent City-no account filed
August 2002WildfireCrescent City-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Del Norte County

Maps showing this location

10 surveys

United 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.

Listed places nearby

1 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 PropertyDistance Listed
BROTHER JONATHAN (Shipwreck Site)0.6 miles2002

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 83001177 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Del Norte CountyAll 6 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.