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Photograph of St. George Reef Light
Photograph by USCG, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

St. George Reef Light Station

Built in 1892. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993. 6 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1929.

From the record

“George Reef Light is an inactive lighthouse built on North West Seal Rock, six miles (10 km) off the coast of northern California near Crescent City.”

Wikipedia article St. George Reef Light, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 6 National Register listings published here for Del Norte County · listed in 1993 · category: Structure · built in 1892.

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 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. NW Seal Rock, approximately 6 nautical mi. off coast from Point St. George, Crescent City
  • When was it listed? December 1993
  • Category. structure
  • Also known as. Light Stations of California MPS
  • Census division. Crescent City
  • When was it built? 1892
  • National Register reference number. 93001373 - 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 St. George Reef Light Station, surveyed 1983
Topographic sheet covering St. George Reef Light Station, surveyed 1929

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

6 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 93001373 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.
  • 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.