Photograph of Beaver Island Head Light — Photograph by Ruthgullekson, CC BY-SA 4.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Beaver Island Light Station

Built in 1858. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.

From the record

“The Beaver Head Light is located high on a bluff on the southern tip of Beaver Island. Boats trying to navigate North on Lake Michigan need to carefully work their way between Beaver Island and Gray's Reef.”
Wikipedia article Beaver Island Head Light, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 17 National Register listings published here for Charlevoix County · listed in 1978 · category: Building · built in 1858.

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

The listing

Address. S of St. James on Beaver Island, St. James, 49782
When was it listed? December 1978
Category. building
Township. Peaine township
When was it built? 1858
National Register reference number. 78001495 - 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 record	The nomination case file for reference 78001495 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Charlevoix County	All 17 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.