BlockFrom the record
One of 68 National Register listings published here for Door County · listed in 2010 · category: District.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Plum island Life-Saving and Light Station
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2010.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 5 buildingss, 4 structuress, 1 site as contributing to the listing.
- Address. Plum Island, Washington, 54246
- When was it listed? June 2010
- Category. district
- Town. Washington town
- National Register reference number. 10000385 - 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
4 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Plum island Life-Saving and Light Station between 1993 and 2018, burning about 2 acres 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 27 August 2018 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 379 |
| 5 July 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 268 |
| 7 May 2018 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 172 |
| 21 November 1993 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Mines and quarries near this property
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Plum island Life-Saving and Light Station: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hagen Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
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 milesOther 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 | Property | Distance | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Plum Island Range Rear Light | under 500 feet | 1984 |
| GRAPE SHOT (schooner) Shipwreck | 0.5 miles | 2016 | |
 | Pilot Island Light | 2.5 miles | 1983 |
 | Clearing, The | 6.4 miles | 1974 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 10000385 in Record Group 79. |
| Door County | All 68 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.