Round Island Passage Light

Built in 1947. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2013.

From the record

“Round Island Passage Light is an automated, unmanned lighthouse located in the Round Island Channel in the Straits of Mackinac, Michigan.”
Wikipedia article Round Island Passage Light, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 22 National Register listings published here for Mackinac County · listed in 2013 · category: Structure · built in 1947.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · 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. Round Island Passage Channel, Mackinac Island, 49757
When was it listed? August 2013
Category. structure
Also known as. Light Stations of the United States MPS
City. Mackinac Island city
When was it built? 1947
National Register reference number. 13000583 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

1 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Round Island Passage Light in 2000, burning under an acre 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
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
25 August 2000	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Hiawatha National Forest	ROUND ISLAND

Every fire recorded in Mackinac 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

6 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
Round Island Lighthouse	0.4 miles	1974
Robert Stuart House	0.5 miles	1971
Mathew Geary House	0.5 miles	1971
Indian Dormitory	0.6 miles	1971
Mission Church	0.6 miles	1971
Fort Mackinac	0.6 miles	1970

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 13000583 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Mackinac County	All 22 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.