Green Island Light

Built in 1855. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990. 7 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1901.

From the record

One of 30 National Register listings published here for Ottawa County · listed in 1990 · category: Site · built in 1855.

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

The listing

Address. Green Island in Lake Erie, Put-in-Bay
When was it listed? December 1990
Category. site
Also known as. Light Stations of Ohio MPS
When was it built? 1855
National Register reference number. 90001909 - 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.

Maps showing this location

7 surveys

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

1901 USGS Put-In-Bay quadrangle1:62500
1903 USGS Put In Bay quadrangle1:62500
1956 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:250000 - 4 printings
1959 USGS Put-In-Bay quadrangle1:24000
1961 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:250000
1969 USGS Put-In-Bay quadrangle1:24000
1986 USGS Put-In-Bay quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings

Listed places nearby

6 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
South Bass Island Light	1.7 miles	1990
Foster-Gram House	2.4 miles	1992
Jay Cooke House	2.5 miles	1966
Perry's Victory and International Peace Memorial (Boundary Increase and Additional Documentation)	2.9 miles	2015
Perry's Victory and International Peace Memorial	2.9 miles	1966
Inselruhe	3.0 miles	1976

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 90001909 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Ottawa County	All 30 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.