Photograph of Point Wilson Light — Photograph by Joe Mabel, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Point Wilson Lighthouse

Built in 1879. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1971.

From the record

“The Point Wilson Light is an active aid to navigation located adjacent to Fort Worden State Park near Port Townsend, Jefferson County, Washington. It is one of the most important navigational aids in the state, overlooking the entrance to Admiralty Inlet, the waterway connecting the Strait of Juan de Fuca and Puget Sound.”
Wikipedia article Point Wilson Light, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 75 National Register listings published here for Jefferson County · listed in 1971 · category: Structure · built in 1879.

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. On a point of land between Juan de Fuca Strait and Admiralty Inlet, Port Townsend, 98368
When was it listed? March 1971
Category. structure
Census division. Discovery Bay-Port Townsend
When was it built? 1879
National Register reference number. 71000870 - 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

19 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 19 fires within 5 miles of Point Wilson Lighthouse between 1992 and 2014, burning about 13 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	11
Debris and open burning	2
Fireworks	2
Arson/incendiarism	1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1
Other causes	1
Smoking	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 1992	Arson/incendiarism	2.1 acres	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
17 September 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	MALAMUTE LANE
13 September 1992	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
1 September 2010	Fireworks	1.0 acres	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	EBEY'S BLUFF
9 August 1997	Recreation and ceremony	1.2 acres	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
5 August 1994	Recreation and ceremony	2.0 acres	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
5 August 1992	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
2 August 1994	Recreation and ceremony	2.0 acres	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named

Every fire recorded in Jefferson 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 Point Wilson Lighthouse: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
	Libbey-Didco Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Jefferson County

Storms near this property

1 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Port Townsend, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 1999: 1 lightning. 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 1999	Lightning	Port Townsend	$15,500	A house was struck by lightning, causing structural and electrical damage.

Every storm recorded in Jefferson 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 Worden Building 502	0.6 miles
Fort Worden Building 305 (Historic Quartermasters Office & Storehouse)	0.9 miles
Thomas Fitzgerald House	1.0 miles	1985
Gagen-Sherlock House	1.2 miles	1982
Andrew Stegerwald House	1.2 miles	1985
House at 30 Tremont Street	1.3 miles	1985

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 71000870 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Jefferson County	All 75 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.