Manitou Island Light Station

Built in 1850. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.

From the record

“The Manitou Island Light Station is a lighthouse located on Manitou Island, off the tip of Michigan's Keweenaw Peninsula in Lake Superior. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.”
Wikipedia article Manitou Island Light Station, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 31 National Register listings published here for Keweenaw County · listed in 1984 · category: Structure · built in 1850.

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. Manitou Island, Copper Harbor
When was it listed? July 1984
Category. structure
Also known as. U.S. Coast Guard Lighthouses and Light Stations on the Great Lakes TR
Township. Grant township
When was it built? 1850
National Register reference number. 84001773 - 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.

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Manitou Island Light Station: 2 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Copper. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Unnamed Copper Deposit	Copper	Occurrence
	Unnamed Copper Prospect	Copper	Occurrence

Every working recorded in Keweenaw County

Storms near this property

5 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Copper Harbor, the town this property stands in, in 5 storm reports between 1994 and 2007: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 1 tornado. 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
June 1994	Hail	Copper Harbor	$5,000	Hail damage reported to vehicle windshields and a metal roof of a store. Winds blew down trees and power lines between Eagle River and Copper Harbor.
June 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Copper Harbor	$5,000	Hail damage reported to vehicle windshields and a metal roof of a store. Winds blew down trees and power lines between Eagle River and Copper Harbor.
July 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Copper Harbor	$3,000	Many trees and branches downed along the highway.
August 2003	Tornado (F0)	Copper Harbor	-	A waterspout over Lake Superior moved onshore at Silver Island just off the shore from Eagle Harbor. The tornado knocked down a tree on the island before it dissipated.
June 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Copper Harbor	-	Three trees were blown down.

Every storm recorded in Keweenaw 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
	Gull Rock Light Station	3.6 miles	1984

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 84001773 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Keweenaw County	All 31 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.
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.