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Cape Flattery Lighthouse

Cape Flattery Lighthouse, seen from above at true elevation

Cape Flattery Lighthouse is a lighthouse in Washington, at a modelled elevation of 40 m. Stolzenburg Mountain stands 650 m to the southeast, 21 miles off. The nearest named place is Fog Signal Building, a lighthouse less than a tenth of a mile away. Strait of Juan de Fuca Highway - SR 112 passes 8.5 miles off. 24 named places lie within 25 miles, 11 of them named summits.

The story

The Cape Flattery Light is a historic lighthouse structure located at the entrance to the Strait of Juan de Fuca near Neah Bay, Clallam County, in the U.S. state of Washington, within the Makah Indian Reservation. The deactivated lighthouse sits on Tatoosh Island, which is named after Chief Tatooche of the Makah Tribe. It is the northwesternmost lighthouse on the West Coast of the contiguous United States. Although closed to the public, it can be viewed from Cape Flattery via a short 30-minute walk.

From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Dates from 1854.

Wikidata Q1963379, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.

What the record says

Built
1857
Height
19 m

How to reach it

Coordinates48.39160, -124.73673

24 named places within 25 miles

Peaks: 11
Historic sites: 3
Waterfalls: 2
Parks: 2
  • Diah Veterans Park - Fort Núñez Gaona: 5.3 mi
  • Clallam Bay West County Park: 23.4 mi
Museums: 2
Attractions: 2
Lighthouses: 1
  • Fog Signal Building: 0.0 mi
Nature reserves: 1
  • Point of Arches State Park Property: 12.3 mi

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 25 miles of Cape Flattery Lighthouse. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Stolzenburg MountainSE 134°650 m21.0 mi
Snag PeakSE 142°617 m16.1 mi
Tsoo-Yess PeakSE 138°600 m10.0 mi
Sekiu MountainSE 135°592 m17.4 mi
Makah PeaksSE 141°501 m8.7 mi
Cheeka PeakSE 141°471 m8.1 mi
Archawat PeakESE 120°398 m2.8 mi
Bahokus PeakESE 116°395 m3.1 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:2318:5119:32
June solstice05:1820:3521:25
September equinox07:0618:3719:19
December solstice08:0915:3316:27

Local time (America/Los_Angeles).

The nearest NOAA station publishes daily tide predictions.

NOAA CO-OPS station Tatoosh Island, Cape Flattery, WA, under a mileaway — today’s predictions live there.

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

National Register of Historic Places, reference 72001267OpenStreetMapWikipediaWikidata

OpenStreetMap element way/234494769

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