Photograph of Ile Aux Galets — Photograph by Unknown, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Skillagalee Light Station

Built in 1888. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.

From the record

“Ile Aux Galets Light, also known as Skillagalee Island Light, is located on Ile Aux Galets, a gravelly, low-lying island in northeast Lake Michigan, between Beaver Island and the mainland, approximately 7 miles (11 km) northwest of Cross Village in Emmet County, Michigan. Along with nearby Grays Reef, Waugoshance, and White Shoal Lights, it warns shipping away from the reefs and shoals of Waugoshance Point, which pose an imminent hazard to navigation.”
Wikipedia article Ile Aux Galets Light, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 49 National Register listings published here for Emmet County · listed in 1984 · category: Structure · built in 1888.

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 structure as contributing to the listing.
Address. SW of Waugoshance Island, Cross Village
When was it listed? July 1984
Category. structure
Also known as. U.S. Coast Guard Lighthouses and Light Stations on the Great Lakes TR
When was it built? 1888
National Register reference number. 84001389 - 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.

Listed places nearby

2 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
	Grays Reef Light Station	6.3 miles	2005
	Waugoshance Light Station	7.9 miles	1983

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 84001389 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Emmet County	All 49 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.