Photograph of St. Martin Island Light — Photograph by United States Coast Guard, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

St. Martin Island Light Station

Built in 1905. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.

From the record

“Martin Island Light is an exoskeleton lighthouse on St. It marks one of four passages between Lake Michigan and the bay of Green Bay.”
Wikipedia article St. Martin Island Light, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 15 National Register listings published here for Delta County · listed in 1984 · category: Building · built in 1905.

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 2 buildingss, 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
Still standing. The Park Service records this property as extant.
Address. St. Martin Island, Fairport
When was it listed? July 1984
Category. building
Also known as. U.S. Coast Guard Lighthouses and Light Stations on the Great Lakes TR
Township. Fairbanks township
When was it built? 1905
National Register reference number. 84001387 - 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.

Storms near this property

1 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fairport, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 1996: 1 hail. 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
July 1996	Hail	Fairport	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Delta 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

1 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	Property	Distance	Listed
	Poverty Island Light Station	4.8 miles	2005

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 84001387 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Delta 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.
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.