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DeTour Reef Light Station

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.

From the record

“The DeTour Reef Light is a non-profit-operated lighthouse marking the southern entrance of the DeTour Passage between the eastern end of Michigan's Upper Peninsula and Drummond Island. The light is an automated active aid to navigation.”
Wikipedia article DeTour Reef Light, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 26 National Register listings published here for Chippewa County · listed in 2005 · category: Structure.

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 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
Address. 3.0 mi. S of SR 134 ferry dock, DeTour Township
When was it listed? March 2005
Category. structure
Architectural style. Neoclassicism
National Register reference number. 05000151 - 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

3 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of DeTour Reef Light Station between 2005 and 2006, burning about 4 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
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
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
8 July 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
3 July 2005	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
19 April 2005	Debris and open burning	3.2 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named

Every fire recorded in Chippewa County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of DeTour Reef Light Station: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Dolomite. 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
	Drummond Island Quarry (Dock and Original Quarry)	Dolomite	Producer	1945

Every working recorded in Chippewa 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
	Fort Drummond	2.4 miles	1969

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 05000151 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Chippewa County	All 26 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.