page_title: List of lighthouses in the United States
section_title: Midwest
hierarchical_section_title: List of lighthouses in the United States / Midwest
caption_attribution_description: English: Image of the Tawas Point Lighthouse. The building is a Registered Michigan State Historic Site.
context_page_description: This is a list of lighthouses in the United States. The United States has had approximately a thousand lights as well as light towers, range lights, and pier head lights. Michigan has the most lights of any state with over 150 past and present lights. Lighthouses that are in former U.S. territories are not listed here.
  Most of the lights in the United States have been built and maintained by the Coast Guard and its predecessors, the United States Lighthouse Service and the United States Lighthouse Board. Before the Lighthouse Board was established, local collectors of customs were responsible for lighthouses under Stephen Pleasonton. As their importance to navigation has declined and as public interest in them has increased, the Coast Guard has been handing over ownership and in some cases responsibility for running them to other parties, the chief of them being the National Park Service under the National Historic Lighthouse Preservation Act of 2000.
  Note: Click on the state of your choice in the tables below to link you to lighthouses in that state.
context_section_description: Nebraska
  The state of Nebraska has at least two faux lighthouses which were first lit in 1939. There is no evidence that either were used for navigational purposes as the state has no large bodies of water that would require the need. Linoma Lighthouse is located on a privately owned recreation area which was developed around an artificial lake, while Lake Minatare Lighthouse was "built to simulate a lighthouse". Also of note is a faux lighthouse called Rock Garden Lighthouse (not listed below) which is located in Kearney.
caption: Michigan has more lighthouses (still standing) than any other state with over 120 listed.  Including historical lighthouse, there were 150 built.[17] (Tawas Point Light shown here)
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