Brandywine Shoal Light
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Brandywine Shoal Light is a lighthouse, at a modelled elevation of 0 m. Muskee Hill stands 19 m to the north-northeast, 24 miles off. The nearest named place is Fourteen Foot Bank Light, a lighthouse 1.8 miles away. Delaware Bayshore Byway passes 8.2 miles off. 2 named summits stand within 25 miles.
The story
The Brandywine Shoal Light is a lighthouse on the north side of the ship channel in Delaware Bay on the east coast of the United States, west of Cape May, Cape May County, New Jersey, United States. It was the site of the first screw-pile lighthouse in the United States.
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Dates from 1828.
Wikidata Q4957291, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Height
- 18 m
How to reach it
- 8.2 mi off the Delaware Bayshore Byway, National
- 8.7 mi off the Bayshore Heritage Byway, National
- 17.9 mi off the Pine Barrens Byway, National
Named places within 25 miles
- SS Atlantus: 8.1 mi
- Concrete Ship: 8.2 mi
- World War II Lookout Tower: 8.4 mi
- Elaine's Famous Dinner Theater: 10.8 mi
- Overfalls: 14.5 mi
- Pavilion Park: 8.5 mi
- Triangle Park: 8.8 mi
- Maria Sheets Memorial Park: 10.2 mi
- Cape May Rotary Park: 10.8 mi
- Cape May Dog Park: 10.9 mi
- Cape May Point Science Center: 9.0 mi
- Cape May Museum & Nature Center: 9.1 mi
- HCSV Welcome Center: 10.9 mi
- Naval Air Station Wildwood Aviation Museum: 11.0 mi
- Emlen Physick Estate: 11.1 mi
- Patrolman David C. Douglass, Sr. Memorial Grave: 9.5 mi
- Coast Guard 44' Motor Life Boat: 12.5 mi
- Zwaanendael Memorial: 14.0 mi
- Menhaden Fishing Industry: 14.5 mi
- The Blizzard of 1888: 14.5 mi
- Garrett Family Preserve: 10.6 mi
- Ted Harvey Conservation Area - Buckaloo Tract: 17.0 mi
- Ted Harvey Conservation Area - Logan Lane Tract: 17.6 mi
- Ted Harvey Conservation Area - Morris Tract: 18.3 mi
- Pemberton Forest Nature Preserve - Ponders Tract: 18.6 mi
- Sunset Beach: 8.2 mi
- Higbee Beach: 8.2 mi
- The Cove: 10.4 mi
- Sunray Beach: 10.5 mi
- Slaughter Beach: 11.3 mi
- Fourteen Foot Bank Light: 1.8 mi
- Miah Maull Shoal Light: 11.0 mi
- East Point Lighthouse: 15.2 mi
- Hereford Lighthouse: 17.3 mi
- Hereford Inlet Light: 17.3 mi
- Ice Cream Statue: 9.2 mi
- Douglas A. Munro: 12.4 mi
- Shark: 15.2 mi
- Wildwoods Sign: 15.8 mi
- Boardwalk Arch: 17.1 mi
- South Cape May: 9.9 mi
- New Market: 19.6 mi
- Banning: 25.0 mi
- Potato Island: 14.3 mi
- Muskee Hill: 24.1 mi
- Senior Center Meditation Garden: 17.6 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Brandywine Shoal Light. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Muskee Hill | NNE 21° | 19 m | 24.1 mi |
| Potato Island | ENE 62° | 2 m | 14.3 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:05 | 18:37 | 19:13 |
| June solstice | 05:36 | 19:50 | 20:30 |
| September equinox | 06:49 | 18:24 | 18:59 |
| December solstice | 07:16 | 16:00 | 16:42 |
Local time (America/New_York).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 36 | 37 | 44 | 53 | 62 | 72 | 77 | 76 | 70 | 59 | 49 | 41 |
| Precip in | 3.2 | 3.0 | 4.1 | 3.3 | 3.5 | 3.5 | 3.9 | 4.0 | 3.8 | 4.2 | 3.3 | 4.0 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Cape MAY 2 NW, 10 mi away.
Mean tidal range 4.9 ft at the nearest NOAA station.
NOAA CO-OPS station Brandywine Shoal Light, DE, under a mileaway — today’s predictions live there.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikipediaWikidataOpenStreetMap element way/1211354437
Day trips start here
- Cape May · 12 mi
- Wildwood · 16 mi
- Rehoboth Beach · 19 mi
- Magnolia · 20 mi
- Cumberland County · 24 mi
- Camden · 25 mi
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