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

Mukilteo Light Station

Built in 1905. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.

From the record

“The Mukilteo Light is an operational navigation aid located on the east side of Possession Sound at Mukilteo, Snohomish County, Washington, in the United States. It is owned and operated by the City of Mukilteo as part of Mukilteo Lighthouse Park.”
Wikipedia article Mukilteo Light, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 52 National Register listings published here for Snohomish County · listed in 1977 · category: Building · built in 1905.

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 8 structuress, 5 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Address. 608 Front St., Mukilteo, 98275
When was it listed? October 1977
Category. building
Census division. Everett
When was it built? 1905
National Register reference number. 77001360 - 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

9 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Mukilteo Light Station between 1992 and 2016, burning about 2 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	3
Debris and open burning	2
Smoking	2
Fireworks	1
Natural	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
8 September 1999	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
10 September 2005	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
28 August 1992	Smoking	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
27 August 2009	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	SOUTH BEACH
21 August 1997	Natural	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
14 July 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	CULTUS BAY
11 July 2015	Smoking	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	CULTUS BAY
29 June 2008	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	TIFFANY RD

Every fire recorded in Snohomish County

Mines and quarries near this property

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Mukilteo Light Station: 8 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
Lowell Brick Co	Clay	Past Producer
Everett Pit & Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Gedney Hat Island Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unnamed Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unnamed Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unnamed Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unnamed Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Unnamed Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unnamed Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Snohomish 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
Point Elliott Treaty Monument	0.2 miles	2004
Floral Hall	4.1 miles	1990
Rucker House	4.2 miles	1975
Rucker Hill Historic District	4.3 miles	1989
Monte Cristo Hotel	4.9 miles	1976
U.S. Post Office and Customshouse	4.9 miles	1976

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 77001360 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Snohomish County	All 52 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.