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San Juan Island, Lime Kiln Light Station

Built in 1914. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.

From the record

“The Lime Kiln Light is a functioning navigational aid located on Lime Kiln Point overlooking Dead Man's Bay on the western side of San Juan Island, San Juan County, Washington, in the United States. It guides ships through the Haro Straits and is part of Lime Kiln Point State Park, which offers tours during summer months.”
Wikipedia article Lime Kiln Light, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 21 National Register listings published here for San Juan County · listed in 1978 · category: Site · built in 1914.

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

The listing

Address. W of Friday Harbor on CR 1, Friday Harbor, 98250
When was it listed? December 1978
Category. site
Census division. San Juan Island
When was it built? 1914
National Register reference number. 78002771 - 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

53 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 53 fires within 5 miles of San Juan Island, Lime Kiln Light Station between 1995 and 2019, burning about 33 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
Debris and open burning	19
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	8
Recreation and ceremony	8
Equipment and vehicle use	7
Smoking	4
Fireworks	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	3
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
5 September 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	BIG ROCK SJI
19 September 1995	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	San Juan Island National Historical Park	MAINT
7 August 1998	Equipment and vehicle use	4.0 acres	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
31 August 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	SUNDSTROM
3 August 1999	Natural	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
24 August 1998	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
20 August 2003	Smoking	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
20 August 2001	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named

Every fire recorded in San Juan 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 San Juan Island, Lime Kiln Light Station: 7 occurrences, 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Limestone, General. 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
Cowell Quarry	Limestone, General	Past Producer
Deadman Bay Deposits	Limestone, General	Occurrence
Hannah Area Outcrop A	Limestone, General	Occurrence
Hannah Area Outcrop B	Limestone, General	Occurrence
Lawson Cave Deposit	Limestone, General	Occurrence
Mitchell Bay Quarry	Limestone, General	Past Producer
Mount Dallas Deposits	Limestone, General	Occurrence
Welch Deposit	Limestone, General	Occurrence
Young Hill East Deposit	Limestone, General	Occurrence

Every working recorded in San Juan County

Storms near this property

2 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Friday Harbor, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports between 2012 and 2015: 1 funnel cloud, 1 heavy rain. 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
September 2015	Heavy Rain	Friday Harbor	$10,000	The rain culminated in a rushing torrent of water down the sidewalks and pooling on First Street. Cars were up to their bumpers in water, and about five inches of rain water pooled in Kings Market, which had to close temporarily in order to remove the water.
December 2012	Funnel Cloud	Friday Harbor	-	An unconfirmed funnel cloud lasting less than a minute was spotted on the west side of San Juan Island.

Every storm recorded in San Juan 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

5 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
San Juan Lime Company-Cowell's	0.4 miles	2007
American and English Camps, San Juan Island	3.5 miles	1966
San Juan County Courthouse	6.3 miles	1984
Roche Harbor	6.5 miles	1977
San Juan Island National Historic Site	7.2 miles	1966

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 78002771 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
San Juan County	All 21 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.
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.