Navigation Structures at White Lake Harbor

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.

From the record

“The Navigation Structures at White Lake Harbor are a set of piers protecting the channel connecting Lake Michigan and White Lake, located at the end of Lau Road near Whitehall, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.”
Wikipedia article Navigation Structures at White Lake Harbor, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 14 National Register listings published here for Muskegon County · listed in 2000 · category: Structure.

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

The listing

Address. South End of Lau Rd., Whitehall, 49437
When was it listed? May 2000
Category. structure
Township. White River township
National Register reference number. 00000535 - 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

14 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Navigation Structures at White Lake Harbor between 1996 and 2019, burning about 85 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Arson/incendiarism	1
Recreation and ceremony	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
4 July 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	WHITE LAKE FIRE AUTHORITY 0000525 - 2018
2 July 2018	Debris and open burning	8.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	MUSKEGON 04
1 July 2018	Misuse of fire by a minor	2.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	MUSKEGON 02
2 May 2015	Recreation and ceremony	2.7 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	MUSKEGON 03 -
30 April 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	WHITE LAKE FIRE AUTHORITY 0000315 - 2018
25 April 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	WHITE LAKE FIRE AUTHORITY 0000408 - 2019
25 April 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	MONTAGUE FD 0000129 - 2018
22 April 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	WHITE LAKE FIRE AUTHORITY 0000394 - 2019

Every fire recorded in Muskegon County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Navigation Structures at White Lake Harbor: 1 past producer, 1 plant. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Fire Clay (Refractory), Titanium, Metal. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Whitehall Clay Pit	Fire Clay (Refractory)	Past Producer
	Whitehall Plant Ti	Titanium, Metal	Plant	1992

Every working recorded in Muskegon County

Storms near this property

14 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Whitehall, the town this property stands in, in 14 storm reports between 1995 and 2024: 7 thunderstorm wind, 6 hail, 1 flood. 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
April 2013	Flood	Whitehall	$5,000,000	Heavy rain caused significant flooding on rivers and streams across Muskegon county.
April 2020	Hail	Whitehall	$500,000	Hail up to one and three quarters inches in diameter was reported near Whitehall.
June 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Whitehall	$250,000	Wind gusts to near 70 mph downed numerous trees and power lines and caused considerable damage.
June 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Whitehall	$50,000	The media reported that a large tree fell on a house and that multiple trees were blown down in Whitehall.
August 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Whitehall	$25,000	A tree was blown down onto a mobile home and numerous tree limbs and power lines were blown down in Whitehall.
May 2001	Hail	Whitehall	$25,000	no account filed
July 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Whitehall	$15,000	no account filed
August 2003	Hail	Whitehall	$10,000	A report of three quarters inch hail was also received from Whitehall.
April 2006	Hail	Whitehall	$5,000	Broadcast media reported three quarters inch diameter hail in Whitehall.
August 2004	Hail	Whitehall	$5,000	Three quarters inch hail was reported by the broadcast media in Blue Lake township.
March 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Whitehall	$5,000	A tree was blown down 6 miles east of Whitehall, and another was blown down 6 miles south of Whitehall.
May 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Whitehall	$200	The broadcast media reported that multiple healthy trees were blown down four miles north of Twin Lake.
July 2008	Hail	Whitehall	-	Nickel sized hail was reported by an amateur radio operator in downtown Whitehall.
September 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Whitehall	-	A very large basswood tree was uprooted by winds that were estimated to be between 60 and 70 mph, at Lincoln Golf Course, located about halfway between Muskegon and Whitehall. The base of the tree trunk was at least three feet in diameter. The base of the uprooted tree roots and dirt measured 25 feet across. Very strong winds were reported throughout the county but other damage was minor.

Every storm recorded in Muskegon 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
	Lewis, John C. and Augusta (Covell), House	4.5 miles	2010

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 00000535 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Muskegon County	All 14 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.