Peshtigo Reef Light

Built in 1905. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.

From the record

“The Peshtigo Reef Light is a lighthouse in Marinette County, Wisconsin, United States, offshore in lower Green Bay. Constructed in 1936 to replace a lightship, it remains in service.”
Wikipedia article Peshtigo Reef Light, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 12 National Register listings published here for Marinette County · listed in 2007 · category: Structure · built in 1905.

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. Offshore in lower Green Bay, approx. 3.3 mi. SE of Peshtigo Point, Peshtigo Township
When was it listed? May 2007
Category. structure
When was it built? 1905
National Register reference number. 07000404 - 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

23 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 23 fires within 5 miles of Peshtigo Reef Light between 1994 and 2017, burning about 362 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 8 were 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
Arson/incendiarism	8
Debris and open burning	7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4
Other causes	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Natural	1
Fireworks	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
3 July 1994	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	18 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
18 July 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
13 July 2006	Natural	1.4 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
26 June 1999	Fireworks	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
25 June 2007	Arson/incendiarism	275 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
30 May 2009	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	PESHTIGO POINT
19 May 2013	Misuse of fire by a minor	18 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	JOHNSON ROAD
9 April 2009	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	MARSH 1

Every fire recorded in Marinette 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 record	The nomination case file for reference 07000404 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Marinette County	All 12 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.