Photograph of Old Mackinac Point Light — Photograph by James Marvin Phelps, CC BY 2.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Mackinac Point Lighthouse

Built in 1892. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1969.

From the record

“Old Mackinac Point Light is a deactivated lighthouse located at the northern tip of the Lower Peninsula in the U.S. state of Michigan. The lighthouse is part of Fort Michilimackinac State Park in the village of Mackinaw City just east of the Mackinac Bridge.”
Wikipedia article Old Mackinac Point Light, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 9 National Register listings published here for Cheboygan County · listed in 1969 · category: Building · built in 1892.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. Michilimackinac State Park, Mackinac City, 49701
When was it listed? October 1969
Category. building
Township. Mackinaw township
When was it built? 1892
National Register reference number. 69000068 - 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

4 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Mackinac Point Lighthouse between 2003 and 2019, burning about 6 acres 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	4

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
27 September 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
23 August 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	ST IGNACE VFD 2019077 - 2019
10 May 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4.5 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
28 April 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named

Every fire recorded in Cheboygan 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
	Forrest J. Stimpson House	0.1 miles	1980

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 69000068 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Cheboygan County	All 9 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.