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Seul Choix Pointe Light Station

Built in 1892 (Italianate architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.

From the record

“The Seul Choix Light is a lighthouse located in the northwest corner of Lake Michigan in Schoolcraft County, Michigan. The station was established in 1892 with a temporary light, and this light started service in 1895, and was fully automated in 1972.”

Wikipedia article Seul Choix Light, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 4 National Register listings published here for Schoolcraft County · listed in 1984 · category: Building · built in 1892, Italianate architecture, by Orlando Metcalfe Poe.

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 3 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. County Rd. 431, Manistique, 49840
  • 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. Mueller township
  • When was it built? 1892
  • Architectural style. Italianate architecture
  • Architect. Orlando Metcalfe Poe
  • National Register reference number. 84001846 - 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 Seul Choix Pointe Light Station: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Dolomite, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Dolomite QuarryDolomiteProducer1930
Inland Lime & StoneStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Schoolcraft County

Storms near this property

14 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Manistique, the town this property stands in, in 14 storm reports between 2002 and 2020: 8 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 3 heavy rain. 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
June 2017Thunderstorm WindManistique$2,000There was a delayed report from the local hospital emergency coordinator of several trees down in and around Manistique resulting in power outages around town and at the hospital.
July 2006Thunderstorm WindManistique$2,000Trees and power lines down near Indian Lake.
August 2020HailManistique-There was a public report of nickel-sized hail in Manistique.
July 2016Heavy RainManistique-A trained spotter measured 2.46 inches of rainfall in Manistique in less than 12 hours.
December 2015Heavy RainManistique-Two-day rainfall totals across the county generally ranged between two and three inches with the highest amounts reported near Manistique in southern Schoolcraft County.
September 2014Heavy RainManistique-There was a public report of 2.79 inches of rain at Manistique in approximately 10 hours. Germfask measured 2.56 inches over the same period.
July 2006Thunderstorm WindManistique-Two large trees down
July 2006Thunderstorm WindManistique-A few large trees blown down along Highway M-94 just north of the Indian River Bridge.
June 2004Thunderstorm WindManistique-Trees were blown down across power lines.
July 2004HailManistique-Golf ball-sized hail was reported.
July 2002Thunderstorm WindManistique-Numerous trees and power lines were blown down.
October 2002Thunderstorm WindManistique-A 61 mph wind gust was recorded.
October 2002Thunderstorm WindManistique-Trees and power lines were blown down. Broken power lines started a fire.
July 2006HailManistique-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Schoolcraft 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 84001846 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Schoolcraft CountyAll 4 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.