Photograph of Port Aransas Light Station — Photograph by Jon Lebkowsky, CC BY-SA 2.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Aransas Pass Light Station

Built in 1855. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.

From the record

“Aransas Pass Light Station also called Lydia Ann Lighthouse is an historic light station in Aransas County, Harbor Island, just outside the city limits of Port Aransas, Texas, behind San Jose and Mustang Islands, that protects a natural gulf pass to Aransas and Corpus Christi Bays.”
Wikipedia article Aransas Pass Light Station, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 6 National Register listings published here for Aransas County · listed in 1977 · category: District · built in 1855.

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

The listing

Address. N of Port Aransas on Harbor Island, Port Aransas
When was it listed? August 1977
Category. district
Census division. Rockport
When was it built? 1855
National Register reference number. 77001423 - 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

5 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Aransas Pass Light Station between 2009 and 2015, burning about 30 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/undetermined	3
Equipment and vehicle use	2

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 August 2015	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	NATIONAL SEA SHORE
2 August 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	HARBOR ISLAND
29 July 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	HABOR ISLAND 2
3 April 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	20 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	705 AVE G
18 April 2009	Equipment and vehicle use	3.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	SAND CASTLE STREET PORT ARANSAS

Every fire recorded in Aransas 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 77001423 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Aransas County	All 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.
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.