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Photograph of Grays Reef Light Station
Photograph by Unknown, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Grays Reef Light Station

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.

From the record

“The Grays Reef Light is a lighthouse located in northeastern Lake Michigan, 3.8 miles (6.1 km) west of Waugoshance Island in Bliss Township, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.”

Wikipedia article Grays Reef Light, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 49 National Register listings published here for Emmet 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. in NE Lake Michigan, 3.8 mi W of Waugashance Island, Bliss Township
  • When was it listed? November 2005
  • Category. structure
  • Architectural style. Art Deco architecture
  • National Register reference number. 05001210 - 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.

Listed places nearby

3 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
Waugoshance Light Station3.2 miles1983
White Shoal Light Station5.3 miles1984
Skillagalee Light Station6.3 miles1984

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 05001210 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Emmet CountyAll 49 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.