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One of 68 National Register listings published here for Door County · listed in 1984 · category: Structure · built in 1896.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Plum Island Range Rear Light
Built in 1896. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
- Address. Plum Island, Gills Rock, 54246
- When was it listed? July 1984
- Category. structure
- Also known as. U.S. Coast Guard Lighthouses and Light Stations on the Great Lakes TR
- Town. Washington town
- When was it built? 1896
- National Register reference number. 84003659 - 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 Range Rear Light 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 Range Rear Light: 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 |
Storms near this property
6 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Gills Rock, the town this property stands in, in 6 storm reports between 1995 and 2010: 5 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Gills Rock | $2,000 | no account filed |
| September 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Gills Rock | - | Numerous trees were blown down and a 25 foot ham radio tower was blown over by thunderstorm winds just north of Ellison Bay. |
| August 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Gills Rock | - | A squall line moved rapidly across the northeast quarter of Wisconsin during the late morning and early afternoon hours. Trees and large limbs were downed in the Rothschild (Marathon County), Clintonville (Waupaca County), Keshena (Menominee County), and Crivitz (Marinette County) areas. Some of these trees were 125 feet tall and three-feet in diameter. In addition, three large tree limbs went through the roof of a house in Rothschild. Trees, power lines and telephone lines were downed five miles west of Wausau (Marathon County), and in the Antigo (Langlade County), Hatley (Marathon County), Mountain (Oconto County), Caroline (Shawano County), Oshkosh (Winnebago County), Green Bay (Brown County), Sturgeon Bay (Door County), Gills Rock (Door County), and Algoma (Kewaunee County) areas. A toppled large tree fell on top of vehicles near Mattoon (Shawano County), and Stevens Point (Portage County), and crushed a shed in Shawano (Shawano County). Wind gusts to 60 mph in Green Bay (Brown County) caused a large wall section of a warehouse to collapse. In addition, two tractor-semitrailers were blown off the road near Sturgeon Bay (Door County). |
| July 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Gills Rock | - | no account filed |
| July 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Gills Rock | - | no account filed |
| May 1996 | Hail | Gills Rock | - | no account filed |
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 Life-Saving and Light Station | under 500 feet | 2010 | |
| 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 84003659 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.
- Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.