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Sand Hills Light Station

Built in 1919 (Neoclassicism). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.

From the record

“Sand Hills was an active lighthouse on the shore of Lake Superior is on private property and is currently closed to the public. It is located in Ahmeek in Keweenaw County in the Keweenaw Peninsula, which is the northern part of the Upper Peninsula in Michigan.”
Wikipedia article Sand Hills Light, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 31 National Register listings published here for Keweenaw County · listed in 1994 · category: Building · built in 1919, Neoclassicism.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Address. Five Mile Point Rd., N of Mohawk, Allouez Township, Mohawk, 49805
When was it listed? July 1994
Category. building
Township. Allouez township
When was it built? 1919
Architectural style. Neoclassicism
National Register reference number. 94000746 - 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

5 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Sand Hills Light Station between 2010 and 2020, burning about 6 acres 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
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1
Natural	1
Recreation and ceremony	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
4 August 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	EAGLE HARBOR TOWNSHIP FD 0000008 - 2019
24 August 2012	Natural	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	GRATIOT RIVER
5 July 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	AHMEEK FD 0200024 - 2020
14 June 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	ALLOUEZ TOWNSHIP FD 0061419 - 2019
8 November 2010	Recreation and ceremony	3.2 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	CLIFF'S DRIVE

Every fire recorded in Keweenaw County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 30 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 30 workings within 5 miles of Sand Hills Light Station: 20 past producers, 6 prospects, 4 producers. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Copper, Silver, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Copper, Silver. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Cliff	Silver, Copper	Past Producer	1844, 1847
Fissure Mines	Copper, Silver, Arsenic	Past Producer	1845, 1890
Iroquois	Copper, Silver	Past Producer	1942, 1956
Keweenaw County Road Comm. Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Keweenaw County Road Comm. Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Phoenix Ashbed	Copper, Silver	Past Producer	1855
Cliff Copper Mine	Copper, Silver	Past Producer
Phoenix Cu Mine	Copper, Silver	Producer
Phoenix Fissure Mine	Copper, Silver	Past Producer	1844, 1931
Babbitt Fissure	Copper	Producer	1880

Every working recorded in Keweenaw County

Storms near this property

2 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mohawk, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports between 2011 and 2014: 1 hail, 1 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
September 2014	Heavy Rain	Mohawk	-	Rainfall totals between 1.5 and 2.5 inches were reported in approximately 16 hours across Keweenaw County...heaviest near the Houghton County line.
June 2011	Hail	Mohawk	-	no account filed

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

5 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Eagle River Historic District	3.7 miles	1984
Church of the Assumption	4.3 miles	2000
Houghton County Traction Company Ahmeek Streetcar Station	7.5 miles	2000
Central Mine Methodist Church	7.8 miles	1970
Central Mine Historic District	8.0 miles	1974

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 94000746 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.
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.