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Photograph of Holland Harbor Light
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Holland Harbor Lighthouse

Built in 1872. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.

From the record

“The Holland Harbor Light, known as BIG RED, is located in Park Township, Michigan at the entrance of a channel connecting Lake Michigan with Lake Macatawa, and which gives access to the city of Holland, Michigan.”

Wikipedia article Holland Harbor Light, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 29 National Register listings published here for Ottawa County · listed in 1978 · category: Building · built in 1872.

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. South Pier, Holland Harbor, Holland, 49424
  • When was it listed? July 1978
  • Category. building
  • When was it built? 1872
  • National Register reference number. 78001509 - 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

14 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Holland Harbor Lighthouse between 2007 and 2019, burning about 21 acres in total. 2 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/undetermined8
Equipment and vehicle use4
Natural2

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
16 August 2019Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesGRAAFSCHAP FD 2019424 - 2019
7 July 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined8.4 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesALLEGAN #8
18 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesPARK TOWNSHIP FD 0000140 - 2018
8 June 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesPARK TOWNSHIP FD 19187 - 2019
11 June 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesPARK TOWNSHIP FD 0000090 - 2018
6 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesHOLLAND FD 0001314 - 2018
31 May 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesPARK TOWNSHIP FD 19184 - 2019
28 March 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesOVERISEL FD 1900036 - 2019

Every fire recorded in Ottawa County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Holland Harbor Lighthouse: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Silica. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Laketown SiteSilicaProducerSedimentary

Every working recorded in Ottawa County

Storms near this property

28 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Holland, the town this property stands in, in 28 storm reports between 1993 and 2022: 13 thunderstorm wind, 11 hail, 4 flash flood. The reports record 1 death. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2008Flash FloodHolland1 killed, $1,000,000A 76 year old farmer drowned while trying to remove boards from the Worley Drain Dam that regulates waters from Bass Creek. A significant number of roads were washed out in the city of Holland and water levels on roads in some low lying locations reached the roof tops of cars. ||A presidential disaster declaration was issued for Ottawa county due to all the flooding.
June 1996Flash FloodHolland$100,000no account filed
July 2005Thunderstorm WindHolland$75,000no account filed
July 2001Flash FloodHolland$50,000no account filed
June 1997Thunderstorm WindHolland$25,000Severe thunderstorm winds downed power lines and transformers across the city of Holland. The highest measured wind gust with this line of storms was 42 mph, at 1 mile east of Holland State Park at 8:10 PM EDT. Marble-sized hail was also reported in Holland at 7:40 PM EDT.
October 2001Flash FloodHolland$25,000no account filed
May 1999Thunderstorm WindHolland$20,000Strong winds downed numerous trees and power lines in Holland.
October 2001Thunderstorm WindHolland$15,000no account filed
July 2003Thunderstorm WindHolland$10,000The ASOS weather observing system at the Tulip City airport in Holland measured a 59 m.p.h. wind gust.
June 1999Thunderstorm WindHolland$10,000Numerous trees and power lines were downed by gusty thunderstorm winds in Holland.
September 1997Thunderstorm WindHolland$10,000Ottawa County Central Dispatch reported trees and power lines downed in the city of Holland around 14th Street. Consumers Energy reported 3,200 customers lost power across southern Ottawa County during the storm. In northern Ottawa County, a lightning strike at a communications tower in Grand Haven stopped emergency radio communications across the entire county. Ottawa County Central Dispatch was forced to use backup towers at emergency operations centers in Allendale and Holland.
August 2001HailHolland$10,000no account filed
October 2001HailHolland$10,000no account filed
November 2005HailHolland$5,000Three quarters inch diameter hail was reported one mile west of Holland.
August 2004Thunderstorm WindHolland$5,000A wind gust of around 70 m.p.h. was measured by wind equipment in Holland.
July 1994Thunderstorm WindHolland$5,000A large tree was uprooted, and the wall of a building under construction was blown down.
October 2002Thunderstorm WindHolland$3,000Law enforcement reported one tree blown down in Spring Lake.
June 2002HailHolland$2,000Three quarters inch hail was also reported by the public near Holland just north of the Allegan and Ottawa county line.
August 2022Thunderstorm WindHolland-A peak wind gust to 59 mph was measured at Spyglass condos in Holland.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindHolland-As storms came upon shore, a wind gust of 66 miles per hour was observed at the Holland State Park. Further inland, a measured wind gust of 47 miles per hour was recorded on the campus of Grand Valley State University in Allendale.
April 2010HailHolland-A trained spotter in Holland reported one inch diameter hail.
October 2007HailHolland-Three quarters inch diameter hail was reportd at the intersection of Chicago Drive and Waverly Roads.
August 1993Thunderstorm WindHolland-Thunderstorm winds gusted to 60 mph 3 miles north of Holland.
October 2007HailHolland-no account filed
April 1998HailHolland-no account filed
April 1997HailHolland-no account filed
April 1996HailHolland-no account filed
April 1994HailHolland-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Ottawa 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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Ottawa Beach Historic District0.4 miles1995
Lakewood Farm2.2 miles2020
Egbert H. Gold Estate2.9 miles1984
Washington Square Historic District4.9 miles2026
Isaac Cappon House4.9 miles1984
Thomas and Anna Morrissey House5.0 miles1999

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 78001509 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Ottawa CountyAll 29 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.
  • Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
  • 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.