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

West Point Light Station

Built in 1881. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.

From the record

“The West Point Light, also known as the Discovery Park Lighthouse, is an active aid to navigation on Seattle, Washington's West Point, which juts into Puget Sound and marks the northern extent of Elliott Bay. The lighthouse is similar in design to the Point No Point Light and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.”
Wikipedia article West Point Light, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 324 National Register listings published here for King County · listed in 1977 · category: Structure · built in 1881.

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 3 buildingss, 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
Address. W of Fort Lawton, Fort Lawton, 98199
When was it listed? August 1977
Category. structure
Census division. Seattle
When was it built? 1881
National Register reference number. 77001336 - 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.

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 West Point Light Station: 1 producer. All of them still produce. 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
	Island Pit N-2	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in King 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 Lawton	1.0 miles	1978
ADVENTURESS	1.8 miles	1989
Gas Works Park	1.9 miles	2013
Magnolia Public Library	2.0 miles	2015
Ballard Avenue Historic District	2.5 miles	1976
Fire Station No. 18	2.5 miles	1973

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 77001336 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
King County	All 324 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.
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.