Apostle Islands Lighthouses

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.

From the record

“There are several historic lighthouses on Lake Superior on or near the Apostle Islands in Wisconsin. Six of these lighthouses, all in the Apostle Islands National Lakeshore, were listed as a group on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977 under the name Apostle Islands Lighthouses.”
Wikipedia article Apostle Islands Lighthouses, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 32 National Register listings published here for Ashland County · listed in 1977 · category: Building.

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

The listing

Address. N and E of Bayfield on Michigan, raspberry, Outer, Sand and Devils Islands, Bayfield
When was it listed? March 1977
Category. building
Architect. United States Lighthouse Service
National Register reference number. 77000145 - 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

3 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Apostle Islands Lighthouses between 1998 and 2019, burning under an acre in total. 1 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/undetermined	1
Recreation and ceremony	1
Natural	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
6 September 1998	Natural	under an acre	Apostle Islands National Lakeshore	VICKERY'S
1 July 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
26 June 2019	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Apostle Islands National Lakeshore	FINE DAY

Every fire recorded in Ashland 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Manitou Camp	1.5 miles	1983
Rocky Island Historic District	4.2 miles	2008
Hadland Fishing Camp	4.7 miles	1977
Rocky Island Historic District	4.8 miles	2008

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 77000145 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Ashland County	All 32 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.