{{Use American English|date=July 2025}} {{Use mdy dates|date=March 2025}} {{Infobox lighthouse | name = Chambers Island Light | image = ChambersIslandLighthouse.jpg | caption = | location = Chambers Island, Wisconsin | coordinates = {{coord|45|12|09|N|87|21|53|W|region:US_type:landmark|display=inline,title}} | yearlit = 1868 | automated = 1961 | yeardeactivated = 1961 | foundation = Concrete | construction = Brick | shape = Octagonal without lantern | height = {{convert|67|ft}} | lens = | range = | characteristic = | module = {{Infobox NRHP|embed=yes | name = Chambers Island Lighthouse | nrhp_type = | built = {{Start date|1868}} | architect OR builder = | added = August 19, 1975 | area = {{convert|40|acre}} | refnum = 75000063<ref name="nris">{{NRISref|version=2013a}}</ref> }} }}

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 {{convert|12|nmi}}.<ref>{{cite uscgll|7|2014|}}</ref><ref>[https://www.history.uscg.mil/Browse-by-Topic/Assets/Land/All/Article/1912538/chambers-island-lighthouse/ Chambers Island Lighthouse] in Lighthouse Resources: Historic Lighthouses & Light Stations, ''United States Coast Guard'', July 22, 2019</ref> 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. {{gallery|mode=packed|align=center |File:USCGchambersislandLant.JPG|USCG archive photo |File:USCGchambersislandNOlant.JPG|USCG archive &ndash; no lantern }}

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==Further reading== {{refbegin}} * 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}}. * {{cite web|url=http://www.terrypepper.com/lights/index.htm |author=Pepper, Terry |title=''Seeing the Light: Lighthouses on the western Great Lakes'' |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220402173558/http://www.terrypepper.com/lights/index.htm |archive-date=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}}. {{refend}}

==External links== {{stack|{{commons category|Chambers Island Lighthouse}}}} *[https://web.archive.org/web/20090901220928/http://www.dcmm.org/lighthouses.html Door County Lighthouses, Door County Marine Museum] *[https://web.archive.org/web/20210509042929/http://terrypepper.com/lights/michigan/chambers/chambers.htm Chambers Island Light entry in ''Seeing the Light''] (Archived May 9, 2021) *[http://www.lighthousefriends.com/light.asp?ID=638 Lighthouse friends article] *[https://web.archive.org/web/20120314020526/http://www.cr.nps.gov/maritime/light/chambers.htm NPS Inventory of Historic Light Stations - Wisconsin] (Archived March 14, 2012) *{{cite rowlett|wi}} *{{cite uscghist|WI}} *{{cite uscgll|7||}} *[https://web.archive.org/web/20060414004000/http://www.dcmm.org/chambers.html History of the Chambers Island Lighthouse] - lists replacement skeletal light

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Category:Lighthouses completed in 1868 Category:Lighthouses in Door County, Wisconsin Category:Lighthouses on the National Register of Historic Places in Wisconsin Category:National Register of Historic Places in Door County, Wisconsin Category:Lighthouses completed in 1961 Category:1868 establishments in Wisconsin