Chambers Island Light

Chambers Island Light

Location	Chambers Island, Wisconsin
Coordinates	45°12′09″N 87°21′53″W
Tower
Constructed	1868
Foundation	Concrete
Construction	Brick
Automated	1961
Height	67 feet (20 m)
Shape	Octagonal without lantern
Heritage	National Register of Historic Places listed place
Light
First lit	1868
Deactivated	1961
Focal height	30 m (98 ft)
Range	10 nmi (19 km; 12 mi)
Characteristic	Fl W 6s
Chambers Island Lighthouse
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Area	40 acres (16 ha)
Built	1868 (1868)
NRHP reference No.	75000063[1]
Added to NRHP	August 19, 1975

The Chambers Island lighthouse is a lighthouse located on Chambers Island in Door County, Wisconsin. It was replaced in 1961 by a skeletal tower, visible for 12 nautical miles (22 km; 14 mi).[2][3] The new light is identified by the USCG as 7-21895.

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1975 as reference #75000063.

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  USCG archive photo
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  USCG archive – no lantern

Notes

1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. November 2, 2013.
2. Light List, Volume VII, Great Lakes (PDF). Light List. United States Coast Guard. 2014.
3. Chambers Island Lighthouse in Lighthouse Resources: Historic Lighthouses & Light Stations, United States Coast Guard, July 22, 2019

Further reading

• Havighurst, Walter (1943) The Long Ships Passing: The Story of the Great Lakes, Macmillan Publishers.
• Oleszewski, Wes, Great Lakes Lighthouses, American and Canadian: A Comprehensive Directory/Guide to Great Lakes Lighthouses, (Gwinn, Michigan: Avery Color Studios, Inc., 1998) ISBN 0-932212-98-0.
• Pepper, Terry. "Seeing the Light: Lighthouses on the western Great Lakes". Archived from the original on 2022-04-02.
• Sapulski, Wayne S., (2001) Lighthouses of Lake Michigan: Past and Present (Paperback) (Fowlerville: Wilderness Adventure Books) ISBN 0-923568-47-6; ISBN 978-0-923568-47-4.
• Wright, Larry and Wright, Patricia, Great Lakes Lighthouses Encyclopedia Hardback (Erin: Boston Mills Press, 2006) ISBN 1-55046-399-3.

External links

• Door County Lighthouses, Door County Marine Museum
• Chambers Island Light entry in Seeing the Light (Archived May 9, 2021)
• Lighthouse friends article
• NPS Inventory of Historic Light Stations - Wisconsin (Archived March 14, 2012)
• Rowlett, Russ. "Lighthouses of the United States: Eastern Wisconsin". The Lighthouse Directory. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
• "Historic Light Station Information and Photography: Wisconsin". United States Coast Guard Historian's Office. Archived from the original on 2017-05-01.
• Light List, Volume VII, Great Lakes (PDF). Light List. United States Coast Guard.
• History of the Chambers Island Lighthouse - lists replacement skeletal light