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HECETA HEAD LIGHT
State: OREGON
Location: NORTH OF SIUSLAW RIVER
Nearest City: FLORENCE
County: LANE
U.S.C.G. District: 13
Year Station Established: 1894
NPS photo by Candace Clifford, 2001
Existing Historic Tower:
• Year Light First Lit: 1894
• Is the Light Operational? YES
• Date Deactivated: N/A
• Automated: 1963
• Foundation Materials: NATURAL/EMPLACED
• Construction Materials: BRICK/STUCCOED
• Markings/Patterns: WHITE TOWER/GREEN LANTERN/RED DOME
• Shape: CONICAL ATTACHED TO WORKROOM
• Relationship to Other Structures: ATTACHED
• Tower Height: 56
• Original Optic: FIRST ORDER, FRESNEL
• Year Original Lens Installed: 1894
• Present Optic: FIRST ORDER, FRESNEL
• Year Present Lens Installed: 1894
• Height of Focal Plane: 205
• Fresnel Lens Disposition: ORIGINAL LENS STILL IN OPERATION
• Has tower been moved? NO
Previous Tower(s): N/A
Modern Tower? NO
Existing Keepers Quarters? YES
• Year Constructed: 1893
• Number of Stories: 2
• Architectural Style: QUEEN ANNE
• Construction Materials: WOOD
Other Structures: 2 OIL HOUSES (1 NOW SERVES AS GENERATOR HOUSE), GARAGE/HORSE BARN; 1 OF 1893 KEEPERS WAS RAZED
Current Use: ACTIVE AID TO NAVIGATION IN NATIONAL FOREST/STATE PARK; KEEPERS SERVES AS B&B
Owner/Manager: U.S. FOREST SERVICE (KEEPERS)/OREGON STATE PARKS & RECREATION (TOWER) W/USCG ACCESS TO OPTIC
Open to the Public? YES
Web Site: Link
National Register Status: LISTED Reference #78002296
Name of Listing: HECETA HEAD LIGHTHOUSE & KEEPERS QUARTERS
On State List/Inventory? YES; Year Listed: 1970
Miscellaneous:
SIUSLAW NATIONAL FOREST/HECETA HEAD LIGHTHOUSE STATE SCENIC VIEWPOINT
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