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YAQUINA HEAD LIGHT
State: OREGON
Location: 3 MILES NORTH OF YAQUINA BAY ENTRANCE
Nearest City: NEWPORT
County: LINCOLN
U.S.C.G. District: 13
Year Station Established: 1873
NPS photo by Ralph Eshelman, 1995
Existing Historic Tower:
• Year Light First Lit: 1873
• Is the Light Operational? YES
• Date Deactivated: N/A
• Automated: 1966
• 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: 93
• Original Optic: FIRST ORDER, FIXED, FRESNEL
• Year Original Lens Installed: 1873
• Present Optic: FIRST ORDER, FRESNEL
• Year Present Lens Installed: 1873
• Height of Focal Plane: 162
• Fresnel Lens Disposition: ORIGINAL LENS STILL IN OPERATION
• Has tower been moved? NO
Previous Tower(s): N/A
Modern Tower? NO
Existing Sound Signal Building? NO
Existing Keepers Quarters? NO (DEMOLISHED 1984)
• Year Constructed: 1873
• Number of Stories: 2
• Architectural Style: DUPLEX
• Construction Materials: WOOD
Other Structures: WHIP ANTENNA (1993), 1873 CISTERN, 1889 OIL HOUSE; DESTROYED: ASST KEEPERS, STABLE, 1886 BARN, 1889 OIL HOUSE, 1881 WATER TOWER, 1896 WAGON SHED, 1900 CISTERN, 1922 KEEPERS DWELLING, 1938 KEEPERS DWELLING
Current Use: ACTIVE AID TO NAVIGATION
Owner/Manager: SALEM DISTRICT BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT W/USCG ACCESS TO OPTIC
Open to the Public? YES
National Register Status: LISTED; Reference #73002340
Name of Listing: YAQUINA HEAD LIGHTHOUSE (LIGHTHOUSE STATIONS OF OREGON MPS) On State List/Inventory? YES; Year Listed: 1970
Miscellaneous:
ORIGINAL NAME WAS CAPE FOULWEATHER; BLM PLANS TO INTERPRET LIGHT AS PART OF THE YAQUINA HEAD OUTSTANDING NATURAL AREA; LIGHTHOUSE & OIL HOUSE REHABILITATED IN 1992
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