The United States of America is a federal union of 50 states and a capital district. Located in the western Great Lakes region, the U.S. state of Wisconsin has two coastlines. One coastline faces north on Lake Superior and includes the Apostle Islands stretching out into the lake. The other coastline faces east on Lake Michigan. This page includes lighthouses of the Lake Michigan coastline south of the Door Peninsula, as well the lighthouses of Lakes Winnebago and Mendota. Lighthouses of Green Bay and the Door Peninsula are described on the Northeastern Wisconsin page, and lighthouses of the Lake Superior coastline are described on the Northern Wisconsin page. When Wisconsin was organized as a territory in 1936 it included all of the modern states of Minnesota and Iowa and the eastern half of North and South Dakota. In 1838 the area west of the Mississippi River was split off as Iowa Territory. Wisconsin, with its present boundaries, was admitted to the Union as the 30th state in 1848. Aids to navigation in eastern Wisconsin are maintained by the U.S. Coast Guard Sector Lake Michigan based in Milwaukee with an Aids to Navigation Team based at Two Rivers, but ownership (and sometimes operation) of historic lighthouses has been transferred to local authorities and preservation organizations in many cases. ARLHS numbers are from the ARLHS World List of Lights. USCG numbers are from volume 7 of the U.S. Coast Guard List of Lights.
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Lake Michigan Lighthouses
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Sheboygan Breakwater Light, Sheboygan, July 2007 Flickr Creative Commons photo by ~Ealasaid~ |
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Port Washington Breakwater Light, Port Washington, July 2006 Flickr Creative Commons photo by Radon360 |
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Fox River and Lake Winnebago Lighthouses
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Lake Mendota Lighthouse
Information available on lost lighthouses:
Notable faux lighthouses:
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Adjoining pages: North: Northeastern Wisconsin | South: Illinois
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Checked and revised November 14, 2023. Lighthouses: 24. Site copyright 2023 Russ Rowlett and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.