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Photograph of Anacapa Island Light
Photograph by United States Coast Guard, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Anacapa Island Light Station

Built in 1912. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991. 6 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1949.

From the record

“Anacapa Island Lighthouse is a lighthouse in California, United States, on the entrance to Santa Barbara Channel, California. Constructed in 1912, it was the last major light station built on the west coast.”

Wikipedia article Anacapa Island Light, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 39 National Register listings published here for Ventura County · listed in 1991 · category: District · built in 1912.

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

The listing

  • Address. Anacapa Island, Channel Islands National Park, Oxnard
  • When was it listed? September 1991
  • Category. district
  • Also known as. Light Stations of California MPS
  • Census division. Oxnard
  • When was it built? 1912
  • National Register reference number. 91001101 - 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

1 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Anacapa Island Light Station in 1994, burning under an acre in total. None 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
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
12 June 1994Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreChannel Islands National ParkANACAPA

Every fire recorded in Ventura County

Storms near this property

3 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Oxnard, the town this property stands in, in 3 storm reports between 1999 and 2025: 1 flood, 1 flash flood, 1 tornado. 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 2025Tornado (EF0)Oxnard-An EF0 tornado with gusts up to 85 MPH developed across southeastern section of the city of Oxnard. The tornado damaged 12 mobile homes in two different mobile home parks (Country Club Mobile Estates and Ocean-Aire Mobile Home Estates). There was loss of shingles and roof coverings, shattered windows and toppled fences.
December 2023Flash FloodOxnard-Flash flooding was reported around the intersection of Saviers Road and Elm Street in Port Hueneme.
April 1999FloodOxnard-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Ventura County

Maps showing this location

6 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 91001101 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Ventura CountyAll 39 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.
  • 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.