Point Bolivar Lighthouse

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.

From the record

“Point Bolivar Light is a historic lighthouse in Port Bolivar, Texas, that was built in 1872. It served for 61 years before being retired in 1933, when its function was replaced by a different light.”
Wikipedia article Point Bolivar Light, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 82 National Register listings published here for Galveston County · listed in 1977 · category: Structure.

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. TX 87, Port Bolivar, 77650
When was it listed? August 1977
Category. structure
Census division. Bolivar Peninsula
National Register reference number. 77001445 - 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 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Point Bolivar Lighthouse in 2012, burning about 150 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	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
14 November 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	150 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	BISCAYNE

Every fire recorded in Galveston County

Storms near this property

7 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Port Bolivar, the town this property stands in, in 7 storm reports between 1996 and 2014: 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 2 funnel cloud, 1 waterspout. 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
August 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Port Bolivar	$25,000	Newspaper reported damage to a bait camp at Sievers Cove.
September 2001	Flash Flood	Port Bolivar	$10,000	Flooding along Highway 87 on Bolivar Peninsula.
July 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Port Bolivar	$2,000	63 mph wind gust recorded by ferry operator.
July 2014	Funnel Cloud	Port Bolivar	-	A funnel cloud was sighted over Galveston Bay.
September 2007	Funnel Cloud	Port Bolivar	-	Funnel cloud sighted on the bay side of the Bolivar Peninsula.
July 2007	Flash Flood	Port Bolivar	-	One to two feet of water over Highway 87 causing road closure.
October 1996	Waterspout	Port Bolivar	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Galveston 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
Fort Travis	0.5 miles	2005
USS CAVALLA (submarine)	2.3 miles	2008
USS STEWART	2.3 miles	2007
ELISSA	2.3 miles	1978
Ashbel Smith Building	3.8 miles	1969
Merimax Building	3.8 miles	1985

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 77001445 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Galveston County	All 82 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.