North Manitou Shoal Light Station

Built in 1935. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.

From the record

“The North Manitou Shoal Light, also known as the North Manitou Light or, locally, The Crib, is a lighthouse located in Lake Michigan, southeast of North Manitou Island in Leland Township, Michigan. When it was automated in 1980, it was the last manned offshore light in the Great Lakes.”
Wikipedia article North Manitou Shoal Light Station, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 25 National Register listings published here for Leelanau County · listed in 2005 · category: Structure · built in 1935.

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, approx. 3 mi. SE of North Manitou Island, Leland Township
When was it listed? September 2005
Category. structure
Township. Cleveland township
When was it built? 1935
National Register reference number. 05000981 - 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 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of North Manitou Shoal Light Station between 1997 and 2017, burning about 1 acre in total. 1 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
Natural	1
Debris and open burning	1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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
7 June 2017	Natural	under an acre	Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore	BASCH WIRE
28 April 1997	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore	PYRAMID PT
15 April 2002	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named

Every fire recorded in Leelanau 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

4 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Port Oneida Rural Historic District	5.5 miles	1997
South Manitou Island Lighthouse Complex and Life Saving Station Historical District	6.7 miles	1983
North Manitou Island Lifesaving Station	7.1 miles	1998
Hutzler's Barn	7.8 miles	1978

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 05000981 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Leelanau County	All 25 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.