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Photograph of Whitefish Point Light
Photograph by Browermd, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Whitefish Point Lighthouse

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.

From the record

“The Whitefish Point Light is a lighthouse located in Chippewa County in the U.S. state of Michigan. Located on the southeastern shores of Lake Superior, it sits at the edge of Whitefish Point leading to Whitefish Bay.”

Wikipedia article Whitefish Point Light, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 26 National Register listings published here for Chippewa County · listed in 1973 · category: Structure.

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 2 buildingss, 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. 5 mi. NE of Shelldrake on Whitefish Rd., Shelldrake, 49768
  • When was it listed? February 1973
  • Category. structure
  • Township. Whitefish township
  • National Register reference number. 73000947 - 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.

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 recordThe nomination case file for reference 73000947 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Chippewa CountyAll 26 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.