Photograph of Yaquina Bay Light — Photograph by Little Mountain 5, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Old Yaquina Bay Lighthouse

Built in 1871. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.

From the record

“The Yaquina Bay Light is a lighthouse that was built in 1871, soon after the founding of the city of Newport, Oregon, in the United States. It is located on the north side of Yaquina Bay.”
Wikipedia article Yaquina Bay Light, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 19 National Register listings published here for Lincoln County · listed in 1974 · category: Building · built in 1871.

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 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. Yaquina Bay State Park, Newport, 97365
When was it listed? May 1974
Category. building
Census division. Newport
When was it built? 1871
National Register reference number. 74001692 - 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

28 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 28 fires within 5 miles of Old Yaquina Bay Lighthouse between 1992 and 2018, burning about 10 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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 ceremony	13
Debris and open burning	7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4
Smoking	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Arson/incendiarism	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
3 September 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Toledo Unit	DAVIS SLOUGH
21 September 2014	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters	BIG CREEK FIRE
10 September 2012	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters	STATION FIRE
7 August 2017	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters	SURF FIRE
7 August 2014	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters	FRISBEE FIRE
22 August 2009	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Toledo Unit	NORTH THIEL
21 August 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Toledo Unit	AGATE BEACH FIRE
18 August 2017	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters	HIDDEN VALLEY FIRE

Every fire recorded in Lincoln County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 24 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 24 workings within 5 miles of Old Yaquina Bay Lighthouse: 12 past producers, 10 producers, 2 occurrences. 10 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Iron, Titanium, Metal, Chromium. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Big Creek Ilmenite	Iron, Zirconium, Titanium, Chromium	Occurrence
Big Creek-Yaquina Bay-Newport Placer	Iron, Titanium, Metal, Chromium	Occurrence	Chromite, Ilmenite
Agate Beach	Stone	Past Producer
Agate Beach Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Basalt Quarry	Stone	Past Producer
Blattner Creek Pit	Stone	Past Producer
Blattner Creek Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Iron Mountain Quarry	Stone	Past Producer
Iron Mountain Quarry	Stone	Past Producer
Iron Mountain Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer

Every working recorded in Lincoln County

Storms near this property

1 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Newport, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 1996: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
January 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Newport	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Lincoln 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Yaquina Bay Bridge No. 01820	0.3 miles	2005
Charles and Theresa Roper House	0.7 miles	1981
New Cliff House	1.0 miles	1986
Yaquina Head Lighthouse	3.7 miles	1993
Pacific Spruce Saw Mill Tenant Houses	6.2 miles	1999
St. John's Episcopal Church	6.3 miles	1990

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 74001692 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Lincoln County	All 19 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.