Photograph of Passage Island Light — Photograph by US Coast Guard, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Passage Island Light Station

Built in 1882. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2006.

From the record

“The Passage Island Light Station is a lighthouse located 3.25 mi (5.23 km) NE of Isle Royale, in NW Lake Superior, Michigan on Passage Island. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2006.”
Wikipedia article Passage Island Light, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 31 National Register listings published here for Keweenaw County · listed in 2006 · category: Building · built in 1882.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Address. SW end of Passage Is., 3.25 mi NE of Isle Royale, in NW Lake Superior, Houghton Township
When was it listed? July 2006
Category. building
Township. Houghton township
When was it built? 1882
National Register reference number. 06000632 - 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

2 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Passage Island Light Station between 1997 and 2004, burning under an 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
Recreation and ceremony	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
9 August 2004	Natural	under an acre	Isle Royale National Park	PORTER2
11 August 1997	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Isle Royale National Park	MERRITT

Every fire recorded in Keweenaw 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
	Tobin Harbor Historic District	5.4 miles	2019

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 06000632 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Keweenaw County	All 31 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.