Built in 1887. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.
From the record
“The Dofflemyer Point Lighthouse is a U.S. lighthouse in Boston Harbor, Washington, and was one of the first in the state of Washington to be automated. It sits at the northeastern entrance to Budd Inlet north of Olympia.”
Wikipedia article Dofflemyer Point Light, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 68 National Register listings published here for Thurston County · listed in 1995 · category: Structure · built in 1887.
Also known as. Maritime Related Resources of Budd Inlet MPS
Census division. Olympia
When was it built? 1887
National Register reference number.93001339- 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
59 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 59 fires within 5 miles of Dofflemyer Point Light
between 1992 and 2020, burning about 17 acres in total. None 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
26
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
13
Recreation and ceremony
10
Fireworks
3
Smoking
2
Other causes
2
Misuse of fire by a minor
2
Equipment and vehicle use
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
9 September 2018
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
under an acre
Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters
GALLAGHER COVE
6 September 1993
Debris and open burning
under an acre
Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters
not named
21 September 1999
Debris and open burning
under an acre
Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters
not named
16 September 1994
Debris and open burning
under an acre
Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters
not named
14 September 1999
Debris and open burning
3.0 acres
Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters
not named
12 September 2011
Recreation and ceremony
under an acre
Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters
GULL HARBOR
11 September 1993
Other causes
under an acre
Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters
not named
9 August 2000
Debris and open burning
under an acre
Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
3 workings within 5 miles of Dofflemyer Point Light: 3 past producers.
None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Olympia, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports between 2001 and 2006: 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.
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.
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.
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