Built in 1867. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.
From the record
“The Grand Island North Light is a lighthouse located on the north end of Grand Island near Munising, Michigan in south eastern Lake Superior. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.”
Wikipedia article Grand Island North Light, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 14 National Register listings published here for Alger County · listed in 1985 · category: District · built in 1867.
National Register reference number.85002149- 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
3 since 2011
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Grand Island North Light Station
between 2011 and 2020, burning under an acre in total. 1 started naturally. None 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
Recreation and ceremony
2
Natural
1
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
1 working within 5 miles of Grand Island North Light Station: 1 occurrence.
None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Silver. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Munising, the town this property stands in, in 26 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 10 thunderstorm wind, 8 hail, 4 flash flood, 3 heavy rain.
The reports record 4 injuries. 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.
Heavy rain resulted in flooding along the Anna River late Monday night into early Tuesday morning. Driveway bridges and a private road were damaged or washed out along M-94, and railroad tracks were washed out between Munising Junction and Munising. Time estimated from radar.
Three to four inches of rain caused the Anna River to go over its banks in Munising reaching the bottom of the bridge on Highway H-58. Floodwaters were one to two feet deep near Brook Street and East Varnum Street with basement flooding reported along Brook Street. The parking lot of the Family Fare Supermarket was also flooded.
An approximate 75-foot section of the paved trail in Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore Park was washed out the evening of April 28th from recent heavy rainfall and seasonal snow melt. Time estimated from radar.
A spotter near Munising reported three large trees uprooted. Each tree was about two feet in diameter. Yard furniture was also blown about 50 feet and a 70 pound grill was blown over. Time of the report was estimated from radar.
There was a social media report of one inch diameter hail in Munising from a thunderstorm on the evening of the 26th. Time of the report was estimated from radar.
Patrons at Bear Creek Inn reported ponds overflowing onto Highway H-58 between Munising and Van Meer from heavy rainfall of three to four inches on the morning of the 5th.
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.
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.
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.
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