Keweenaw Waterway Upper Entrance Light

Built in 1950. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2014.

From the record

“The Keweenaw Waterway Upper Entrance Light is a lighthouse located at the north end of the Portage River in McLain State Park in Hancock Township, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2014.”
Wikipedia article Keweenaw Waterway Upper Entrance Light, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 41 National Register listings published here for Houghton County · listed in 2014 · category: Structure · built in 1950.

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. E. breakwater Keweenaw Waterway, N. end, .4 mi. offshore, Hancock Township
When was it listed? July 2014
Category. structure
Also known as. Light Stations of the United States MPS
When was it built? 1950
National Register reference number. 14000425 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

1 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Keweenaw Waterway Upper Entrance Light in 1992, 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
Debris and open burning	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 May 1992	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named

Every fire recorded in Houghton County

Mines and quarries near this property

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Keweenaw Waterway Upper Entrance Light: 2 past producers, 2 prospects. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Copper. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
North's Copper Pit	Copper	Prospect
South Kearsarge	Copper	Past Producer	1887, 1900
Unnamed Copper Mine	Copper	Past Producer
Unnamed Copper Prospect	Copper	Prospect

Every working recorded in Houghton 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
Keweenaw National Historical Park	6.4 miles	1972
Quincy Mining Company Historic District	7.1 miles	1989
Quincy Mine No. 2 Shaft Hoist House	7.2 miles	1970
East Hancock Neighborhood Historic District	7.4 miles	1980
Lieblein House	7.7 miles	1980
Old Main, Suomi College	7.7 miles	1972

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 14000425 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Houghton County	All 41 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.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.