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Pointe Aux Barques Lighthouse

Built in 1848. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.

From the record

“Pointe aux Barques Lighthouse and Maritime Museum is an active lighthouse and adjoining museum located in Huron County in the U.S. state of Michigan. It is located along the shores of Lake Huron on the northeastern tip of the Thumb.”
Wikipedia article Pointe aux Barques Light, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 27 National Register listings published here for Huron County · listed in 1973 · category: Structure · built in 1848.

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 structure as contributing to the listing.
Address. E of Huron City on Light House Rd., Huron City
When was it listed? March 1973
Category. structure
Township. Gore township
When was it built? 1848
National Register reference number. 73000949 - 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.

Storms near this property

4 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Huron City, the town this property stands in, in 4 storm reports between 2010 and 2020: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 1 hail. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
July 2010	Tornado (EF0)	Huron City	$75,000	A National Weather Service Storm Survey confirmed a weak EF0 tornado hit the Lighthouse County Park in Huron County. The tornado touched down at 1011 PM about 1.5 miles northwest of the Park, and tracked over and close to Lighthouse Road. The tornado, with maximum winds of 80 mph, then continued to track southeast, moving through the County Park and exiting out into Lake Huron at 1013 PM. The total path length was estimated at 2 miles, with a maximum width of 75 yards. \|Numerous trees were blown down, one of which fell onto a camper. Roof damage was also observed at one home.
June 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Huron City	-	A few trees reported down.
October 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Huron City	-	Multiple trees reported down.
May 2011	Hail	Huron City	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Huron 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
Huron City Historic District	3.9 miles	1995
W. R. Stafford Saw Mill Site	6.0 miles	1987
St. John's Lutheran Church	6.0 miles	1987
Frederick H. and Elizabeth Stafford House	6.0 miles	1987
Stafford House	6.0 miles	1973
Melligan Store-Agriculture Hall	6.1 miles	1988

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 73000949 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Huron County	All 27 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.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.