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CAPE MEARES LIGHT
State: OREGON
Location: SOUTHERN ENTRANCE TO TILLAMOOK BAY
Nearest City: OCEANSIDE
County: TILLAMOCK
U.S.C.G. District: 13
Year Station Established: 1890
Existing Historic Tower:
• Year Light First Lit: 1890
• Is the Light Operational? NO
• Date Deactivated: 1963
• Automated: 1963
• Foundation Materials: CONCRETE
• Construction Materials: BRICK SHEATHED IN SHEET IRON
• Markings/Patterns: WHITE W/BLACK TRIM
• Shape: OCTAGONAL ATTACHED TO WORKROOM
• Relationship to Other Structures: ATTACHED
• Tower Height: 40
• Original Optic: FIRST ORDER, FRESNEL
• Year Original Lens Installed: 1890
• Present Optic: FIRST ORDER, FRESNEL
• Year Present Lens Installed: 1890
• Height of Focal Plane: 217
• Fresnel Lens Disposition:
Previous Tower(s): N/A
Modern Tower? YES
• Year Tower Constructed: 1963
• Type: RECTANGULAR
• Tower Height: 17
• Height of Focal Plane: 232
• Current Optic: Year Installed:
Existing Sound Signal Building? NO
Existing Keepers Quarters? NO DEMOLISHED CA. 1968
• Year Constructed: 1890
• Number of Stories: 1.5
• Architectural Style:
• Construction Materials:
Other Structures: NONE REMAIN; ORIG. 2 1890 OIL HOUSES; 2 1890 KEEPERS DWELLINGS; 2 1890 CISTERNS; 1895 WORKROOM ATTACHED TO TOWER (RECONSTRUCTED 1978); 1934 GARAGE
Current Use: STATE PARK/NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE
Owner/Manager: U.S. COAST GUARD LEASE TO STATE OF OREGON
Open to the Public? YES
Web Site: LINK
National Register Status: LISTED Reference #73002341
Name of Listing: CAPE MEARES LIGHTHOUSE (LIGHTHOUSE STATIONS OF OREGON MPS)
On State List/Inventory? YES; Year Listed: 1970
Miscellaneous:
LIGHT REPLACED BY NEW TOWER NEARBY IN 1963 WHICH BECAME INACTIVE 1985 BUT WAS REACTIVATED SOON AFTER; BIRD REFUGE
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