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Photograph of Tawas Point Light
Photograph by Asher196 03:32, 18 July 2008 (UTC), CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Tawas Point Light Station

Built in 1853. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.

From the record

“Tawas Point Light is located in the Tawas Point State Park off Tawas Bay in Lake Huron in Baldwin Township in Northern Michigan.”

Wikipedia article Tawas Point Light, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 3 National Register listings published here for Iosco County · listed in 1984 · category: Building · built in 1853.

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. Tawas Point Rd., East Tawas, 48730
  • 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. Baldwin township
  • When was it built? 1853
  • National Register reference number. 84001453 - 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

49 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 49 fires within 5 miles of Tawas Point Light Station between 1992 and 2020, burning about 114 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 4 were 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/undetermined16
Debris and open burning11
Power generation/transmission/distribution9
Arson/incendiarism4
Equipment and vehicle use3
Recreation and ceremony3
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Other causes1
Natural1

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
26 September 2016Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreHuron-Manistee National ForestWILLIMENT
5 August 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreHuron-Manistee National ForestMEADOWS
31 August 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreHuron-Manistee National ForestINEZ
24 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreHuron-Manistee National ForestREDBIRD
2 August 2009Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreHuron-Manistee National ForestMARGO
18 August 2010Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreHuron-Manistee National ForestSAND
13 August 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreHuron-Manistee National ForestKOONZE
12 August 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesEAST TAWAS FD 0000122 - 2018

Every fire recorded in Iosco County

Storms near this property

18 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names East Tawas, the town this property stands in, in 18 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 11 hail, 7 thunderstorm wind. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2006Thunderstorm WindEast Tawas$10,000Metal roof blown off a barn.
July 2025Thunderstorm WindEast Tawas-Marine wind sensor on Tawas Bay reported wind gust to 60mph.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindEast Tawas-Measured wind gust at Tawas Point.
July 2009HailEast Tawas-Penny sized hail at Red Hawk Golf Course.
April 2008HailEast Tawas-Mostly pea sized hail, but a few hailstones as large as nickels.
August 2004Thunderstorm WindEast Tawas-Several trees were downed.
September 2001Thunderstorm WindEast Tawas-Trees and power lines down.
September 1998Thunderstorm WindEast Tawas-Several trees of up to 12 - 24 inches in diameter were toppled across the city.
May 1998Thunderstorm WindEast Tawas-Strong thunderstorm winds downed numerous trees and powerlines countywide.
May 2018HailEast Tawas-no account filed
February 2017HailEast Tawas-no account filed
May 2006HailEast Tawas-no account filed
July 2006HailEast Tawas-no account filed
May 2000HailEast Tawas-no account filed
May 2000HailEast Tawas-no account filed
May 1998HailEast Tawas-no account filed
May 1998HailEast Tawas-no account filed
May 1994HailEast Tawas-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Iosco 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 PropertyDistance Listed
Alabaster Historic District7.5 miles1977

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 84001453 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Iosco CountyAll 3 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.
  • 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.