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One of 33 National Register listings published here for Skagit County · listed in 2024 · category: District.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Burrows Island Light Station
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2024.
The listing
- Address. Far western shore of Burrows Island, Anacortes
- When was it listed? August 2024
- Category. district
- Also known as. Light Stations of the United States MPS
- Census division. Anacortes
- National Register reference number. 100010694 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
39 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 39 fires within 5 miles of Burrows Island Light Station between 1992 and 2020, burning about 35 acres in total. 1 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 |
|---|---|
| Recreation and ceremony | 17 |
| Smoking | 8 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 6 |
| Debris and open burning | 3 |
| Other causes | 2 |
| Natural | 1 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 1 |
| Fireworks | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 September 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Northwest Region-Department of Natural Resources | GINNETT RD |
| 2 September 1997 | Natural | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
| 17 September 1998 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
| 11 September 2012 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | LAKE PASS |
| 3 August 1997 | Other causes | under an acre | Puget Sound Agency | USCHURCH |
| 29 August 2011 | Smoking | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | HEART LAKE |
| 29 August 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | MT. ERIE |
| 27 August 2017 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | MT. ERIE |
Mines and quarries near this property
10 of 23 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 23 workings within 5 miles of Burrows Island Light Station: 10 occurrences, 6 past producers, 3 producers, 2 prospects. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Copper, Stone, Silver, Gold, Copper. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Anacortes | Chromium, Platinum | Occurrence | Chromite | |
| Fidalgo Island | Copper, Gold | Prospect | ||
| Island Mine | Copper, Magnesite, Iron | Occurrence | ||
| Mountain Home | Manganese | Occurrence | ||
| Mountain Home Claim | Copper, Manganese | Occurrence | Bementite, Chalcopyrite, Copper, Pyrite | |
| Reef Point | Magnesite | Producer | ||
| Stephens | Copper, Silver, Gold | Past Producer | ||
| Anacopper | Silver, Gold, Copper | Occurrence | Copper, Gold | |
| Anacortes Quarry and Mill | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| City of Anacortes | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer |
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 milesOther 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 | Property | Distance | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
 | LA MERCED | 3.8 miles | 1990 |
 | Anacortes Public Library | 5.1 miles | 1977 |
 | Causland Park | 5.2 miles | 1981 |
 | Wilson Hotel | 5.3 miles | 2004 |
 | Fraternal Order of Eagles Hall-Anacortes | 5.4 miles | 2019 |
 | W. T. PRESTON (snagboat) | 5.5 miles | 1972 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100010694 in Record Group 79. |
| Skagit County | All 33 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.