Kevich Light

Kevich Light
Kevich Light

Location	Town of Grafton, Wisconsin, Twenty minutes north of Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Coordinates	43°19′23.7″N 87°53′18.5″W / 43.323250°N 87.888472°W / 43.323250; -87.888472Coordinates: 43°19′23.7″N 87°53′18.5″W / 43.323250°N 87.888472°W / 43.323250; -87.888472^[1]
Year first constructed	1981
Year first lit	1981
Height	40 feet (12 m) from on top of bluff, 120 feet (37 m) from lake level
Range	20 miles (32 km)
Characteristic	rotating shield causes a 4 seconds on, 4 seconds off effect
USCG number	7-20765

The Kevich Light is a lighthouse located in the town of Grafton, Wisconsin.

This lighthouse was built privately by a person who has a general interest in lighthouses. It is built on the former site of the unincorporated community of Ulao, Wisconsin. It is listed on the USCG navigation maps as a private light. In 1990 it was officially registered as a United States Coast Guard Class II Private Aid Light. It is listed as light no. 20765. The light sits on a bluff and is 120 feet (37 m) above the lake level, making it the second highest light on Lake Michigan. Its 1,000 and 400 watt bulbs are surrounded by a rotating shield, resulting in four seconds of light, and then four seconds of darkness. Kevich Light is believed to be one of the last few privately owned lights in the entire United States.^[2]^[3]

Notes

↑ Light List, Volume VII, Great Lakes (PDF). Light List. United States Coast Guard. 2014.
↑ Kevich Light
↑ Kevich Light

Additional 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".
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

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.

Lighthouses of Wisconsin

See also: List of lighthouses in Wisconsin

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