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Point Iroquois Light Station

Built in 1856. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.

From the record

“Point Iroquois Light is a lighthouse on a Chippewa County bluff in the U.S. state of Michigan. Point Iroquois and its light mark the division line between Whitefish Bay and the western end of the St.”
Wikipedia article Point Iroquois Light, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 26 National Register listings published here for Chippewa County · listed in 1975 · category: Building · built in 1856.

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. 6 mi. NW of Brimley in the Hiawatha National Forest, Brimley, 49715
When was it listed? May 1975
Category. building
Township. Bay Mills township
When was it built? 1856
National Register reference number. 75000940 - 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

23 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 23 fires within 5 miles of Point Iroquois Light Station between 1992 and 2020, burning about 27 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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
Debris and open burning	5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5
Recreation and ceremony	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Arson/incendiarism	1
Fireworks	1
Smoking	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
6 July 2020	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Hiawatha National Forest	SUPERIOR
23 July 2005	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Michigan Agency	YARD
22 July 2005	Fireworks	under an acre	Michigan Agency	LEVI
19 July 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Michigan Agency	ROADSIDE
18 July 2005	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Michigan Agency	11891
10 July 2012	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Hiawatha National Forest	IROQUOIS
4 June 2020	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Michigan Agency	GUMSHOE
15 June 2009	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Hiawatha National Forest	MISSION HILL FIRE #2

Every fire recorded in Chippewa County

Storms near this property

6 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Brimley, the town this property stands in, in 6 storm reports between 1995 and 2024: 5 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
June 2024	Hail	Brimley	-	Report from Facebook of up to quarter size hail east of Brimley, MI.
July 2023	Hail	Brimley	-	Fire chief reported quarter sized hail at 6 Mile Road and East Birch Point Trail. Time estimated by radar.
July 2018	Hail	Brimley	-	Hail covered the ground.
July 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Brimley	-	Trees and power lines down.
July 1995	Hail	Brimley	-	Large hail reported by storm spotter.
July 2000	Hail	Brimley	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Chippewa 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 75000940 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Chippewa County	All 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.
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.
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.