Photograph of South Fox Island Light — Photograph by United States Coast Guard, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

South Fox Island Light Station

Built in 1867. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2021.

From the record

“The South Fox Island Light was a light station located on South Fox Island in the north end of Lake Michigan. There are two towers standing at the site: the first is the original brick keeper's house and tower, while the second is a skeletal tower moved to this site from Sapelo Island, Georgia in 1934.”
Wikipedia article South Fox Island Light, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 25 National Register listings published here for Leelanau County · listed in 2021 · category: District · built in 1867.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Address. South Fox Island, Leelanau Township
When was it listed? August 2021
Category. district
Township. Leelanau township
When was it built? 1867
National Register reference number. 100006861 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

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 record	The nomination case file for reference 100006861 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.