Doubling Point Rear Range Light
Doubling Point Rear Range Light is a lighthouse in Maine, at a modelled elevation of 6 m. Tate Hill stands 109 m to the northwest, 12 miles off. The nearest named place is Doubling Point Front Range Light, a lighthouse 0.1 miles away.
The story
Lighthouse in Maine, United States.
Dates from 1898.
Wikidata Q5300172, joined on its National Register reference.
What the record says
- Built
- 1898
What to expect
- Operated by
- U.S. Coast Guard
How to reach it
Named places within 25 miles
- Noble Hill Preserve: 0.8 mi
- Fiddler's Reach Meadows: 0.9 mi
- Sewall Pond Conservation Area: 1.4 mi
- Mill Pond Preserve: 1.6 mi
- Losier-Rogers Family Preserve: 1.6 mi
- Morse's Landing: 1.0 mi
- South End Boat Launch: 1.1 mi
- Maine Maritime Museum Park: 1.2 mi
- South End Park: 1.3 mi
- Goddards Pond: 1.4 mi
- Sewell Hill: 1.3 mi
- Gilmore Hill: 2.1 mi
- Pitchpine Hill: 2.2 mi
- West Side Hill: 2.3 mi
- Rogers Neck: 2.6 mi
- Maine Maritime Museum Library Archives: 1.2 mi
- Maine Maritime Museum: 1.2 mi
- NeKrangan II Museum: 5.9 mi
- Georgetown Historical Society: 6.0 mi
- Brunswick Naval Aviation Museum: 6.7 mi
- Honor the Brave Memorial: 2.2 mi
- Southport Civil War Monument: 7.3 mi
- American Revolution Historical Site: 7.7 mi
- Boothbay Civil War Soldier Monument: 8.1 mi
- Boothbay World War II Honor Role: 8.1 mi
- Wyoming schooner: 1.2 mi
- Wild Bird Petroglyph: 5.0 mi
- Cedar Waxwings Petroglyph: 5.0 mi
- Circles Petroglyph: 6.6 mi
- Birk: 6.6 mi
- Thomas Point Beach: 4.8 mi
- Cole Beach: 6.7 mi
- Hendricks Head Beach: 6.9 mi
- South Beach: 7.5 mi
- East Beach: 7.8 mi
- Vayo Meditation Garden: 6.6 mi
- Haney Hillside Garden: 6.6 mi
- Arbor Garden: 6.7 mi
- Horticultural Building, Costal Maine Botanical Gardens: 6.8 mi
- Cripps Creek Disc Golf Course: 7.8 mi
- Bath Community Garden: 1.3 mi
- Sunken Garden: 2.0 mi
- Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens: 6.6 mi
- Bowdoin Organic Garden: 8.3 mi
- Coffin Street Garden: 8.4 mi
- Hockomock Head: 2.2 mi
- Morse Point: 10.3 mi
- The Bluff: 16.8 mi
- Doubling Point Front Range Light: 0.1 mi
- First Falls: 20.0 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 14.2 miles of Doubling Point Rear Range Light. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tate Hill | NW 308° | 109 m | 12.5 mi |
| Cox Pinnacle | WNW 287° | 108 m | 13.9 mi |
| Call Hill | NNE 13° | 105 m | 14.2 mi |
| Wheeler Hill | NW 320° | 89 m | 12.7 mi |
| Kenniston Hill | E 90° | 87 m | 8.7 mi |
| Oak Hill | W 276° | 85 m | 12.0 mi |
| Mount Hunger | ENE 57° | 83 m | 11.2 mi |
| Fuller Mountain | SSW 203° | 81 m | 5.3 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:43 | 18:14 | 18:52 |
| June solstice | 04:58 | 19:42 | 20:26 |
| September equinox | 06:27 | 18:01 | 18:39 |
| December solstice | 07:11 | 15:18 | 16:05 |
Local time (America/New_York).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Sep.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 23 | 25 | 32 | 43 | 53 | 62 | 68 | 67 | 60 | 50 | 40 | 29 |
| Precip in | 4.4 | 3.9 | 4.9 | 4.3 | 3.6 | 4.4 | 3.7 | 3.2 | 4.3 | 5.2 | 4.3 | 5.4 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Westport Island, 4 mi away.
The nearest NOAA station publishes daily tide predictions.
NOAA CO-OPS station Mill Point, Sasanoa River, ME, 2 mi away — today’s predictions live there.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
National Register of Historic Places, reference 87002263OpenStreetMap- National Register of Historic Places — Kennebec River Light Station, reference 87002263, listed 01/21/88.
OpenStreetMap element node/9693887279
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