Chambers Island

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Chambers Island, named in honor of Col. Talbot Chambers, is a 2,834-acre (4.428 sq. mi.) island in the Bay of Green Bay, about 7 miles off the coast of the Door Peninsula, in Door County's Town of Gibraltar ( 45°10′56″N, 87°21′19″W). Approximately 1/8 (12.3%) of the island's area is taken up by shallow 348.73-acre Mackaysee Lake, in the northeastern part of the island. The land area is 10.04 km² (3.8765 sq mi, or 2,481 acres). Since 1867, the island has been home to the Chambers Island lighthouse, which has been deactivated since 1961. The lighthouse has been the main attraction at 40-acre Chambers Island County Park since its commissioning in 1976.

The highest elevation on the island is approximately 55' above the lakeshore. In the southeast, Chambers Island narrows to a spit, called Hanover Shoal, extends towards the shoreline of the Door Peninsula, from which it is approximately 5 mile distant. The primary settlement is a cluster of resort homes in the extreme northeastern section of the island. No permanent population was reported in the 2000 census.

[edit] References

• Chamber Island: Blocks 1136 thru 1161 and Block 1997, Census Tract 9803, Door County, Wisconsin United States Census Bureau. Andrew

[edit] External links

• Chambers Island Light page
• Inventory of Historic Lighthouses' Chambers Island Light page
• Article on Chambers Island from a University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point publication
• USGS map of Chambers Island
• History of the Chambers Island Lighthouse