Photograph of Smith Island Light — Photograph by Unknown, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Smith Island Light Station

Built in 1858. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.

From the record

One of 15 National Register listings published here for Island County · listed in 1978 · category: Site · built in 1858.

Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 site as contributing to the listing.
Address. N of Port Townsend, Port Townsend
When was it listed? April 1978
Category. site
Census division. North Whidbey Island
When was it built? 1858
National Register reference number. 78002746 - 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.

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.

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 78002746 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Island County	All 15 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.