In the 19th and early 20th centuries, blinking lights peppered the Texas coast from the Rio Grande to the Sabine River. Texas has boasted a greater variety of lighthouse types than any other state and still does, including brick masonry, cast-iron, screw-pile, and caisson styles. Although some Texas light towers succumbed to storms, shifting sands, or modernization, eight still stand along the Texas coast as sturdy remnants of a long past era.

Aransas Pass Light Station

Bolivar Point Light (P)

Halfmoon Reef Light (M)

Matagorda Island Light

Port Isabel Light

Sabine Bank Light

Lake Conroe Lighthouse

South Shore Harbor Light

Brazos River Lighthouse (D)

Brazos Santiago Lighthouse (D)

Clopper's Bar Light (lost)

East Shoal Light (D)

Fort Point Light (D)

Galveston Jetty Lighthouse (D)

Red Fish Bar and Bar Cut (D)

Saluria Light (D)

Swash Light (D)

West Shoal Light (D)

There have been other lights, most of which have been destroyed by hurricanes and subsequently not rebuilt.