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Photograph of Manistique East Breakwater Light
Photograph by Chris Beechler, CC BY-SA 4.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Manistique East Breakwater Light

Built in 1916. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.

From the record

“The Manistique East Breakwater Light is a lighthouse located in the harbor of Manistique, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.”

Wikipedia article Manistique East Breakwater Light, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 4 National Register listings published here for Schoolcraft County · listed in 2005 · category: Structure · built in 1916.

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. at offshore end of east breakwater, approx. 1,800 ft. from shore, Manistique
  • When was it listed? September 2005
  • Category. structure
  • When was it built? 1916
  • National Register reference number. 05000980 - 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

12 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Manistique East Breakwater Light between 1994 and 2019, burning about 8 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 burning4
Recreation and ceremony3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Fireworks1
Smoking1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
29 August 2012Fireworksunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesSHOTGUN FIRE
21 August 2003Debris and open burningunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
1 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesGARDEN TOWNSHIP VFD 0201916 - 2019
2 July 2005Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
14 July 2005Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
10 July 2005Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
26 June 1994Misuse of fire by a minor2.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 May 1996Debris and open burning3.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Every fire recorded in Schoolcraft County

Storms near this property

14 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Manistique, the town this property stands in, in 14 storm reports between 2002 and 2020: 8 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 3 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2017Thunderstorm WindManistique$2,000There was a delayed report from the local hospital emergency coordinator of several trees down in and around Manistique resulting in power outages around town and at the hospital.
July 2006Thunderstorm WindManistique$2,000Trees and power lines down near Indian Lake.
August 2020HailManistique-There was a public report of nickel-sized hail in Manistique.
July 2016Heavy RainManistique-A trained spotter measured 2.46 inches of rainfall in Manistique in less than 12 hours.
December 2015Heavy RainManistique-Two-day rainfall totals across the county generally ranged between two and three inches with the highest amounts reported near Manistique in southern Schoolcraft County.
September 2014Heavy RainManistique-There was a public report of 2.79 inches of rain at Manistique in approximately 10 hours. Germfask measured 2.56 inches over the same period.
July 2006Thunderstorm WindManistique-Two large trees down
July 2006Thunderstorm WindManistique-A few large trees blown down along Highway M-94 just north of the Indian River Bridge.
June 2004Thunderstorm WindManistique-Trees were blown down across power lines.
July 2004HailManistique-Golf ball-sized hail was reported.
July 2002Thunderstorm WindManistique-Numerous trees and power lines were blown down.
October 2002Thunderstorm WindManistique-A 61 mph wind gust was recorded.
October 2002Thunderstorm WindManistique-Trees and power lines were blown down. Broken power lines started a fire.
July 2006HailManistique-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Schoolcraft 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 PropertyDistance Listed
Manistique Pumping Station1.3 miles1981

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 05000980 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Schoolcraft CountyAll 4 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.
  • 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.