Photograph of Grand Traverse Light — Photograph by Rachel Kramer from Grandville, MI, United States, CC BY 2.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Grand Traverse Light Station

Built in 1852. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.

From the record

“Grand Traverse Light is a lighthouse in the U.S. state of Michigan, located at the tip of the Leelanau Peninsula, which separates Lake Michigan and Grand Traverse Bay. It marks the Manitou passage, where Lake Michigan elides into Grand Traverse Bay.”
Wikipedia article Grand Traverse Light, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 25 National Register listings published here for Leelanau County · listed in 1984 · category: Building · built in 1852.

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 as contributing to the listing.
Address. Leelanau Peninsula, Northport, 49670
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. Leelanau township
When was it built? 1852
National Register reference number. 84001799 - 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

10 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Northport, the town this property stands in, in 10 storm reports between 1995 and 2018: 7 thunderstorm wind, 3 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 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Northport-	$10,000	Trees and power lines were downed along the west shore of the county between Northport and Glen Haven.
October 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Northport	$6,000	Numerous trees and power lines were downed by thunderstorm winds.
June 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Northport	$4,000	Multiple trees were downed at M-22 and Lee Mann Road.
August 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Northport	$2,000	One large tree was downed at Carlson Road and M-22.
June 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Northport	-	A single orchard had about a hundred cherry trees damaged or destroyed by thunderstorm winds.
August 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Northport	-	Trees were downed.
August 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Northport	-	Trees down.
May 2013	Hail	Northport	-	no account filed
August 2013	Hail	Northport	-	no account filed
June 2000	Hail	Northport	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Leelanau 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
	Morgan-Copp-Mervau Building	6.4 miles	2000

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 84001799 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Leelanau County	All 25 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.