Photograph of Point No Point Light — Photograph by Jan Tik, CC BY 2.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Point No Point Light Station

Built in 1879. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.

From the record

“Point No Point Light is an operational aid to navigation on the northeastern tip of the Kitsap Peninsula on the west side of Puget Sound, at Point No Point where Admiralty Inlet joins Puget Sound, near the small community of Hansville, Kitsap County, in the U.S. state of Washington. Point No Point Light is considered the oldest lighthouse on Puget Sound and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.”
Wikipedia article Point No Point Light (Washington), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 23 National Register listings published here for Kitsap County · listed in 1978 · category: Building · 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 2 buildingss, 1 site, 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
Address. E of Hansville, Hansville, 98340
When was it listed? August 1978
Category. building
Census division. Kingston
When was it built? 1879
National Register reference number. 78002758 - 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

11 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Point No Point Light Station between 1994 and 2016, burning about 2 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 were 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	5
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Arson/incendiarism	2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1
Debris and open burning	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
6 September 2012	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	DRIFTWOOD
30 September 1994	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
31 August 2005	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	LITTLE BOSTON
3 August 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
26 August 1994	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
19 August 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	SWEDE
16 August 2005	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
28 July 2005	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named

Every fire recorded in Kitsap 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

1 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.

Photograph	Property	Distance	Listed
	Port Gamble Historic District	4.8 miles	1966

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 78002758 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Kitsap County	All 23 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.