Photograph of Detroit River Light — Photograph by U.S. Coast Guard, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Detroit River Light Station

Built in 1885. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.

From the record

One of 15 National Register listings published here for Monroe County · listed in 1983 · category: Building · built in 1885.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Address. Lake Erie, Rockwood
When was it listed? August 1983
Category. building
Also known as. U.S. Coast Guard Lighthouses and Light Stations on the Great Lakes TR
When was it built? 1885
National Register reference number. 83000886 - 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

4 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Detroit River Light Station between 2010 and 2019, burning about 343 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Debris and open burning	1
Arson/incendiarism	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
27 April 2019	Debris and open burning	300 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	BERLIN CHARTER TWP FD STATION 1 NEWPORT 2019258 -
26 April 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	ESTRAL BEACH VFD 0201911 - 2019
31 March 2010	Arson/incendiarism	42 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	WAYNE 01
29 March 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	MONROE 01

Every fire recorded in Monroe 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 83000886 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Monroe County	All 15 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.