Photograph of Forty Mile Point Light — Photograph by NOAA Photo Library, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Forty Mile Point Light Station

Built in 1896. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.

From the record

“Forty Mile Point Light is a lighthouse in Presque Isle County near Hammond Bay on the western shore of Lake Huron in Rogers Township, Michigan USA.”
Wikipedia article Forty Mile Point Light, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 13 National Register listings published here for Presque Isle County · listed in 1984 · category: Building · built in 1896.

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. Presque Isle County Park, Alpena, 49779
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. Rogers township
When was it built? 1896
National Register reference number. 84001830 - 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

4 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Forty Mile Point Light Station between 2001 and 2012, burning about 23 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 was 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
Debris and open burning	2
Recreation and ceremony	1
Arson/incendiarism	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
24 May 2002	Debris and open burning	19 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
15 May 2012	Recreation and ceremony	3.9 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	PRESQUE ISLE 07
1 May 2001	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
4 April 2005	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named

Every fire recorded in Presque Isle 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

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
	Rogers Theater	6.5 miles	2024
	Radka-Bradley House	6.5 miles	1991

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 84001830 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Presque Isle County	All 13 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.