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Photograph of Daniel K. Inouye Kīlauea Point Lighthouse
Photograph by Stephanie Pilling, CC BY-SA 4.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Kilauea Point Lighthouse

Built in 1913 (bungalow). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.

From the record

“Inouye Point Lighthouse, also known as Light, is a lighthouse located on Point on the island of in the Point National Wildlife Refuge.”

Wikipedia article Point Lighthouse, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 39 National Register listings published here for Kauai County · listed in 1979 · category: Structure · built in 1913, bungalow.

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 5 buildingss, 2 structuress, 1 site as contributing to the listing.
  • Still standing. The Park Service records this property as extant.
  • Address. Kilauea Point National Wildlife Refuge, Kilauea, 96754
  • When was it listed? October 1979
  • Category. structure
  • Census division. Hanalei
  • When was it built? 1913
  • Architectural style. bungalow
  • National Register reference number. 79000759 - 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

38 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 38 fires within 5 miles of Kilauea Point Lighthouse between 2001 and 2012, burning about 23 acres 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined38

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
21 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Kaua'inot named
15 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Kaua'inot named
6 August 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Kaua'inot named
29 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Kaua'inot named
13 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Kaua'inot named
9 July 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Kaua'inot named
7 July 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Kaua'inot named
7 July 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresCounty of Kaua'inot named

Every fire recorded in Kauai County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Kilauea Point Lighthouse: 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Aluminum, Phosphorus-Phosphates, Iron, Silica, Titanium, Water, Free. 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
Northeast Kauai DepositAluminum, Phosphorus-Phosphates, Iron, Silica, Titanium, Water, FreeProspect1949

Every working recorded in Kauai County

Map coverage status

No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.

Listed places nearby

6 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
Kong Lung Store1.4 miles1993
Kilauea School1.7 miles1983
Kilauea Plantation Head Bookkeeper's House1.9 miles1993
Kilauea Plantation Head Luna's House1.9 miles1993
Kilauea Plantation Manager's House2.1 miles1993
Haraguchi Rice Mill4.9 miles1983

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 79000759 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Kauai 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.
  • 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.