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Photograph of Keweenaw Waterway Lower Entrance Light
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Keweenaw Waterway Lower Entrance Light

Built in 1919. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2014.

From the record

“The Keweenaw Waterway Lower Entrance Light, also known as the Portage Entry Light, is a lighthouse located at the south end of breakwater at mouth of the Portage River in Torch Lake Township. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2014.”

Wikipedia article Keweenaw Waterway Lower 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 1919.

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. S. end of breakwater at mouth of Portage R., Torch Lake Township
  • When was it listed? July 2014
  • Category. structure
  • Also known as. Light Stations of the United States MPS
  • When was it built? 1919
  • National Register reference number. 14000426 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

1 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Keweenaw Waterway Lower Entrance Light in 2003, 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/undetermined1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
28 April 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Every fire 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

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
Jacobsville Finnish Lutheran Church1.3 miles1976
County Road C11-Pike River Bridge6.2 miles1999
Chassell School Complex6.3 miles2009

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 14000426 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Houghton CountyAll 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.