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Photograph of Point Reyes Lighthouse
Photograph by Frank Schulenburg, CC BY-SA 4.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Point Reyes Light Station

Built in 1870. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991. 12 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1947.

From the record

“The Point Reyes Lighthouse, also known as Point Reyes Light or the Point Reyes Light Station, is a lighthouse in the Gulf of the Farallones on Point Reyes in Point Reyes National Seashore, located in Marin County, California, United States.”

Wikipedia article Point Reyes Lighthouse, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 50 National Register listings published here for Marin County · listed in 1991 · category: District · built in 1870.

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

The listing

  • Address. Point Reyes National Seashore, Point Reyes, 94937
  • When was it listed? September 1991
  • Category. district
  • Also known as. Light Stations of California MPS
  • Census division. Northwest Marin
  • When was it built? 1870
  • National Register reference number. 91001100 - 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

10 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Point Reyes Light Station between 1998 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
Fireworks1
Equipment and vehicle use1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Natural1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Point Reyes Light Station: 1 past producer, 1 occurrence, 1 unknown. None of them 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 LocationSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unnamed LocationGemstoneOccurrence

Every working recorded in Marin County

Maps showing this location

12 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

3 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 Lifeboat Rescue Station, 19272.4 miles1985
Point Reyes Naval Radio Compass Station3.0 miles2018
RCA Point Reyes Receiving Station7.8 miles2018

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 91001100 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.