Photograph of Sturgeon Bay Canal Light — Photograph by Pete Markham from Loretto, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Sturgeon Bay Canal Lighthouse

Built in 1899. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.

From the record

“The Sturgeon Bay Canal lighthouse is a lighthouse located at the Coast Guard station near Sturgeon Bay in Door County, Wisconsin.”
Wikipedia article Sturgeon Bay Canal Light, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 68 National Register listings published here for Door County · listed in 1984 · category: Structure · built in 1899.

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. Sturgeon Bay Canal, Sturgeon Bay, 54235
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. Sturgeon Bay town
When was it built? 1899
National Register reference number. 84003666 - 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

9 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Sturgeon Bay Canal Lighthouse between 2018 and 2020, 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6
Debris and open burning	2
Smoking	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
8 June 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	580
18 June 2020	Smoking	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	623
16 June 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	610
30 April 2018	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	440
30 April 2018	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	439
8 December 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	1418
7 December 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	1405
20 December 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	1482

Every fire recorded in Door County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Sturgeon Bay Canal Lighthouse: 5 producers, 3 unknowns, 1 plant, 1 past producer. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
Eliason Quarry	Stone	Unknown
The Reef Limestone Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Bissen Quarry	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
County Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Door Pit South	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Mohr Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Peterson Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Serrahn Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Trodahl Pit & Mill	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Plant
Worefl Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown

Every working recorded in Door County

Storms near this property

54 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sturgeon Bay, the town this property stands in, in 54 storm reports between 1994 and 2023: 32 thunderstorm wind, 14 hail, 3 lightning, 3 funnel cloud. The reports record 5 injuries. 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	Sturgeon Bay	3 hurt, $150,000	no account filed
August 2003	Lightning	Sturgeon Bay	1 hurt	no account filed
June 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Sturgeon Bay	1 hurt	no account filed
June 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Sturgeon Bay	$150,000	no account filed
September 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Sturgeon Bay	$25,000	no account filed
July 2011	Lightning	Sturgeon Bay	$10,000	Lightning struck a tree, followed the copper in the underground gas propane line to a house, and ignited the wooden support holding up a pipe in the basement.
August 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Sturgeon Bay	$5,000	no account filed
June 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Sturgeon Bay	$2,000	no account filed
May 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Sturgeon Bay	$2,000	no account filed
July 2023	Hail	Sturgeon Bay	-	Penny size hail fell in Sturgeon Bay.
July 2023	Hail	Sturgeon Bay	-	Half dollar size hail fell near Sturgeon Bay. The time of this report is an estimate based on radar data.
August 2023	Hail	Sturgeon Bay	-	Penny size hail fell near Sturgeon Bay.
August 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Sturgeon Bay	-	Thunderstorm winds downed trees just north of Sturgeon Bay.
June 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Sturgeon Bay	-	Thunderstorm winds downed trees and power lines near Sturgeon Bay. The time of this report is an estimate based on radar data.
July 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Sturgeon Bay	-	Thunderstorm winds downed trees and power lines in Sturgeon Bay, and across Door County. The time of this event is an estimate based on radar data.
April 2020	Hail	Sturgeon Bay	-	Golf ball size hail fell in Sturgeon Bay.
July 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Sturgeon Bay	-	Thunderstorm winds downed trees in Sturgeon Bay. The time of this report is an estimate based on radar data.
August 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Sturgeon Bay	-	Thunderstorm winds downed trees and power lines in Sturgeon Bay. The time of this report was estimated based on radar data.
June 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Sturgeon Bay	-	Thunderstorm winds caused widespread tree damage across Door County.
June 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Sturgeon Bay	-	Thunderstorm winds downed trees and power lines in Sturgeon Bay, Baileys Harbor, Fish Creek and Sister Bay. The time of this report was estimated for Sturgeon Bay based on radar data.
July 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Sturgeon Bay	-	Thunderstorm winds downed trees just north of Sturgeon Bay, on Reynolds Road, and just south of Sturgeon Bay, near Clay Banks.
July 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Sturgeon Bay	-	Law enforcement reported trees and power lines were blown down in the city of Sturgeon Bay and across much of southern Door County.
June 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Sturgeon Bay	-	Tree uprooted and landed on wires.
June 2007	Hail	Sturgeon Bay	-	Golf ball size hail.
June 2007	Hail	Sturgeon Bay	-	Ping pong ball size hail covered the ground.
July 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Sturgeon Bay	-	Straight-line winds from thunderstorms knocked down several trees in central Door County.
June 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Sturgeon Bay	-	Trees and branches down.
June 2007	Hail	Sturgeon Bay	-	no account filed
June 2007	Hail	Sturgeon Bay	-	no account filed
October 2006	Hail	Sturgeon Bay	-	no account filed
September 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Sturgeon Bay	-	no account filed
August 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Sturgeon Bay	-	no account filed
July 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Sturgeon Bay	-	no account filed
May 2002	Hail	Sturgeon Bay	-	no account filed
July 2002	Hail	Sturgeon Bay	-	no account filed
September 2001	Funnel Cloud	Sturgeon Bay	-	no account filed
August 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Sturgeon Bay	-	no account filed
August 2001	Hail	Sturgeon Bay	-	no account filed
August 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Sturgeon Bay	-	no account filed
July 2000	Hail	Sturgeon Bay	-	no account filed
June 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Sturgeon Bay	-	no account filed
September 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Sturgeon Bay	-	no account filed
September 1999	Funnel Cloud	Sturgeon Bay	-	no account filed
September 1999	Funnel Cloud	Sturgeon Bay	-	no account filed
August 1999	Waterspout	Sturgeon Bay	-	no account filed
September 1999	Waterspout	Sturgeon Bay	-	no account filed
June 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Sturgeon Bay	-	no account filed
July 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Sturgeon Bay	-	no account filed
July 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Sturgeon Bay	-	no account filed
July 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Sturgeon Bay	-	no account filed
June 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Sturgeon Bay	-	no account filed
June 1998	Hail	Sturgeon Bay	-	no account filed
June 1998	Lightning	Sturgeon Bay	-	no account filed
August 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Sturgeon Bay	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Door 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

6 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
Larson, L. A., & Co. Store	3.9 miles	1985
Teweles and Brandeis Grain Elevator	4.1 miles	2018
Louisiana Street/Seventh Avenue Historic District	4.1 miles	1983
Carnegie Free Library	4.1 miles	1988
Dr. Joseph and Olivia Soper House	4.1 miles	2024
Third Avenue Historic District	4.2 miles	1983

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 84003666 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
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.