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Photograph of Point Reyes Lifeboat Station
Photograph by Evan1007, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Point Reyes Lifeboat Rescue Station, 1927

A National Historic Landmark. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985. 11 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1947.

From the record

“Point Reyes Lifeboat Station, also known as Point Reyes Lifeboat Rescue Station, is a historic coastal rescue station, located on the Drake's Bay side of Point Reyes in northern California, United States. It was built in 1927 by the United States Lifesaving Service to replace a previous station dating from 1888.”

Wikipedia article Point Reyes Lifeboat Station, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 50 National Register listings published here for Marin County · listed in 1985 · category: District · a National Historic Landmark.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

  • Address. Drake's Bay, Point Reyes National Seashore, Inverness, 94937
  • When was it listed? November 1985
  • Category. district
  • Census division. Northwest Marin
  • National Register reference number. 85002756 - 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

11 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Point Reyes Lifeboat Rescue Station, 1927 between 1996 and 2020, burning about 7 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 ceremony5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Fireworks1
Equipment and vehicle use1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Natural1

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
4 September 2007Recreation and ceremonyunder an acrePoint Reyes National SeashoreSOUTH BEACH LOG
27 September 2020Power generation/transmission/distribution5.6 acresPoint Reyes National SeashoreLIGHT
12 September 2017Naturalunder an acrePoint Reyes National SeashoreA RANCH
8 August 1998Recreation and ceremonyunder an acrePoint Reyes National SeashoreNORTHBEACH
30 August 1998Recreation and ceremonyunder an acrePoint Reyes National SeashoreN2 BEACH
16 August 2014Fireworksunder an acrePoint Reyes National SeashoreCHIMMENY
27 June 2002Recreation and ceremonyunder an acrePoint Reyes National SeashoreS BEACH 2
18 April 2019Equipment and vehicle useunder an acrePoint Reyes National SeashoreLIGHTHOUSE

Every fire recorded in Marin County

Mines and quarries near this property

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Point Reyes Lifeboat Rescue Station, 1927: 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenUnknown
Unnamed LocationGemstoneOccurrence
Sulsan Bay DredgeSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Unnamed LocationSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Marin County

Storms near this property

3 since 2019

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
February 2019FloodInverness-Roadway flooding Sr Francis Drake Blvd and Mount Vision Fire Rd.
February 2019FloodInverness-Sir Francis Drake Blvd by Vision Rd is flooded and currently impassable, Pierce Point Rd by Keohe Beach Trailhead is also flooded.
February 2019FloodInverness-Roads between Inverness and Point Reyes are closed due to flooding.

Every storm recorded in Marin County

Maps showing this location

11 surveys

United States Geological Survey topographic sheets whose coverage includes this point. Matched by taking the middle of the area the National Park Service maps for this listing, then testing that coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet.

Listed places nearby

4 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
Point Reyes Light Station2.4 miles1991
Point Reyes Naval Radio Compass Station3.0 miles2018
RCA Point Reyes Receiving Station7.1 miles2018
Point Reyes Peninsula Dairy Ranches Historic District7.3 miles2018

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 85002756 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Marin CountyAll 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.