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CAPE BLANCO LIGHT
State: OREGON
Location: SOUTHERNMOST OREGON COAST
Nearest City: SIXES
County: CURRY
U.S.C.G. District: 13
Year Station Established: 1870
Existing Historic Tower:
• Year Light First Lit: 1870
• Is the Light Operational? YES
• Date Deactivated: N/A
• Automated: 1980
• Foundation Materials: BRICK
• Construction Materials: BRICK
• Markings/Patterns: WHITE TOWER, GREEN LANTERN, RED DOME
• Shape: CONICAL ATTACHED TO WORKROOM
• Relationship to Other Structures: ATTACHED
• Tower Height: 59
• Original Optic: FIRST ORDER, FRESNEL
• Year Original Lens Installed: 1870
• Present Optic: SECOND ORDER, FRESNEL
• Year Present Lens Installed: 1936
• Height of Focal Plane: 245
• Fresnel Lens Disposition: FIRST ORDER LENS TRANSFERRED TO TONGUE POINT IN ASTORIA, OREGON
• Has tower been moved? NO
Previous Tower(s): N/A
Modern Tower? NO
Existing Sound Signal Building? NO
Existing Keepers Quarters? NO (DESTROYED)
• Year Constructed: 1870
• Number of Stories: 2.5
• Architectural Style:
• Construction Materials: BRICK
Other Structures: DUPLEX, GARAGE, COMMUNICATIONS BUILDING, BLM VISITOR CENTER; DESTROYED: 1870S CISTERNS, 1885 BARN, 1889 WOODSHED, 1890 OIL HOUSE, 1892 STORAGE SHED,1895 WASHHOUSE, 1898 WATER TANK, 1909 KEEPERS DWELLING, 1924 WATER TANK
Current Use: ACTIVE AID TO NAVIGATION
Owner/Manager: U.S. COAST GUARD LEASE TO BLM, COOS BAY DISTRICT
Open to the Public? YES
Web Site:
National Register Status: LISTED; Reference #73002339
Name of Listing: CAPE BLANCE LIGHTHOUSE (LIGHTHOUSE STATIONS OF OREGON MPS)
On State List/Inventory? YES; Year Listed: 1970
Miscellaneous:
OREGON'S OLDEST LIGHTHOUSE; IN 1990, 15.4 ACRES OF STATION TRANSFERRED TO NPS WHO IN TURN DEEDED SECTION TO OREGON PARKS AS PART OF CAPE BLANCO STATE PARK
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