Photograph by National Park Service photo by Candace Clifford, 2000, Public domain. Via
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Grays Harbor Light Station
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.
From the record
“The Grays Harbor Lighthouse is a lighthouse located on Point Chehalis on the southern side of the entrance to Grays Harbor, Westport, Grays Harbor County, Washington, in the United States.”
Wikipedia article Grays Harbor Light, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 22 National Register listings published here for Grays Harbor County · listed in 1977 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.77001333- 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
25 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 25 fires within 5 miles of Grays Harbor Light Station
between 1992 and 2018, burning about 35 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
9
Fireworks
5
Debris and open burning
4
Smoking
3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
2
Other causes
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
17 September 2017
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
under an acre
Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters
PLUM ST
12 September 1993
Recreation and ceremony
under an acre
Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters
not named
10 September 1999
Recreation and ceremony
under an acre
Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters
not named
28 August 1993
Recreation and ceremony
under an acre
Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters
not named
26 August 1995
Arson/incendiarism
under an acre
Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters
not named
20 August 2010
Recreation and ceremony
under an acre
Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters
BIG STUMP
19 August 2014
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
2.0 acres
Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters
TWIN HARBORS
18 August 1998
Debris and open burning
under an acre
Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
5 workings within 5 miles of Grays Harbor Light Station: 3 occurrences, 2 past producers.
None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Titanium, Metal, Zirconium, Iron, Gold, Platinum, Gold, Titanium. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Westport, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports between 1997 and 2002: 1 tornado, 1 storm surge/tide.
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.
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.
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.
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