The United States of America is a federal union of 50 states and a capital district. Located in the western Great Lakes region, the 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. Green Bay, a branch of Lake Michigan, is separated from the main part of the lake by the scenic Door Peninsula. This page includes lighthouses of the Green Bay and Door Peninsula coastlines. Lighthouses of the Lake Superior coastline are described on the Northern Wisconsin page, and lighthouses of Lake Winnebago and the Lake Michigan coast south of the Door Peninsula are described on the Southeastern Wisconsin page. When Wisconsin was organized as a territory in 1836 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 Rvers, 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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Green Bay Lighthouses
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![]() Green Bay Harbor Entrance Light, Green Bay, July 2023 Google Maps photo by Kaptian Nemo |
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![]() Grassy Island Range Front (right) and Rear Lights, Green Bay, July 2022 Google Maps photo by Christine Noelle |
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Rock Island and Porte des Morts Passage Lighthouses
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Lake Michigan Lighthouses
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![]() Sturgeon Bay Ship Canal North Pierhead Light, Sturgeon Bay, August 2022 Google Maps photo by Micah Oberholtzer |
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Information available on lost lighthouses:
Adjoining pages: North: Southern Upper Michigan | South: Southeastern Wisconsin
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Checked and revised December 2, 2024. Lighthouses: 29. Site copyright 2024 Russ Rowlett and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.