Photograph of Round Island Light — Photograph by Dale Fisher, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Round Island Lighthouse

Built in 1895. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.

From the record

“The Round Island Light, also known as the Old Round Island Point Lighthouse, is a lighthouse located on the west shore of Round Island in the shipping lanes of the Straits of Mackinac, which connect Lake Michigan and Lake Huron. It was deemed necessary because the island is a significant hazard to navigation in the straits, and was seen as an effective complement to the other lights in the area.”
Wikipedia article Round Island Light (Straits of Mackinac), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 22 National Register listings published here for Mackinac County · listed in 1974 · category: Building · built in 1895.

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. S of Mackinac Island in Hiawatha National Forest, Mackinac Island, 49757
When was it listed? August 1974
Category. building
City. Mackinac Island city
When was it built? 1895
National Register reference number. 74000994 - 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

1 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Round Island Lighthouse in 2000, 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/undetermined	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
25 August 2000	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Hiawatha National Forest	ROUND ISLAND

Every fire recorded in Mackinac 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
Round Island Passage Light	0.4 miles	2013
Robert Stuart House	0.9 miles	1971
Mathew Geary House	0.9 miles	1971
Mission Church	1.0 miles	1971
Indian Dormitory	1.0 miles	1971
Lawrence Andrew Young Cottage	1.0 miles	1997

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 74000994 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Mackinac County	All 22 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.