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Photograph of Green Bay Harbor Entrance Light
Photograph by Chris Rand, CC BY-SA 4.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Green Bay Harbor Entrance Light

Built in 1935. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008.

From the record

“The Green Bay Harbor Entrance Light is an offshore lighthouse near Green Bay, Wisconsin. Located 10 miles (16 km) from the mouth of the Fox River, it was erected to signal the entrance to Green Bay.”

Wikipedia article Green Bay Harbor Entrance Light, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 65 National Register listings published here for Brown County · listed in 2008 · category: Structure · built in 1935.

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 approx. 3.1 mi. NW. of Port Comfort (Scott Township), Port Comfort
  • When was it listed? March 2008
  • Category. structure
  • Town. Scott town
  • When was it built? 1935
  • National Register reference number. 08000248 - 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 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Green Bay Harbor Entrance Light between 2018 and 2020, burning under an acre in total. None 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Debris and open burning2

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
26 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2063
2 May 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2032
6 April 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2019
30 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources18030
4 November 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2087

Every fire recorded in Brown 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

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
J.B. Smith House and Granary5.0 miles2004
Rockwood Lodge Barn and Pigsty5.0 miles2004
Holy Cross Church and Convent6.8 miles2001
Henry House7.7 miles1980

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 08000248 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Brown CountyAll 65 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.