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Photograph of Lansing Shoals Light Station
Photograph by Unknown, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Lansing Shoals Light Station

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.

From the record

“The Lansing Shoals Light Station is a lighthouse located in northeastern Lake Michigan, 6.3 miles (10.1 km) southeast of Point Patterson, in Newton Township, Mackinac County, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.”

Wikipedia article Lansing Shoals Light Station, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 22 National Register listings published here for Mackinac 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. NE Lake Michigan, 6.3 mi. SE of Point Patterson, Newton Township
  • When was it listed? September 2005
  • Category. structure
  • National Register reference number. 05000979 - 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.

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.

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 05000979 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Mackinac CountyAll 22 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.