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Photograph of East Charity Shoal Light
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East Charity Shoal Light

Built in 1877. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008. 4 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1895.

From the record

“East Charity Shoal Light is an offshore lighthouse located near the Saint Lawrence River's entrance in northeastern Lake Ontario, due south of the city of Kingston, Ontario and approximately five miles (8 km) southwest of Wolfe Island. It is on the southeast rim of a 3,300-foot-diameter (1,000 m) submerged circular depression known as Charity Shoal Crater that may be the remnants of a meteorite impact.”

Wikipedia article East Charity Shoal Light, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 144 National Register listings published here for Jefferson County · listed in 2008 · category: Structure · built in 1877.

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 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. NE. L. Ontario at US-Canada boundary 9.5 mi. SW. of Cape Vincent, Cape Vincent
  • When was it listed? March 2008
  • Category. structure
  • When was it built? 1877
  • National Register reference number. 08000231 - 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

5 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cape Vincent, the town this property stands in, in 5 storm reports between 2000 and 2025: 5 thunderstorm wind. 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
August 2000Thunderstorm WindCape Vincent$15,000no account filed
July 2010Thunderstorm WindCape Vincent$10,000Law enforcement reported trees down.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindCape Vincent$5,000Trees and powerlines downed in Cape Vincent.
August 2022Thunderstorm WindCape Vincent$2,000Trees and wires were downed.
July 2018Thunderstorm WindCape Vincent$2,000Trees down to the southwest of Cape Vincent.

Every storm recorded in Jefferson County

Maps showing this location

4 surveys

United States Geological Survey topographic sheets whose coverage includes this point. Matched by taking the coordinate the National Park Service records for this property, then testing that coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet.

Listed places nearby

4 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 PropertyDistance Listed
Grenadier Island Schoolhouse6.4 miles2012
Tibbetts Point Light7.0 miles1984
Rogers Brothers Farmstead7.2 miles1998
Johnson House7.9 miles1985

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 08000231 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Jefferson CountyAll 144 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.