Marine Safety Detachment
Marine Safety Detachment is a lighthouse in Maine, at a modelled elevation of 2 m. Mount Agamenticus stands 210 m to the north, 11 miles off. The nearest named place is Oil House, a lighthouse less than a tenth of a mile away. Coastal Byway passes 0.3 miles off.
The story
lighthouse in New Hampshire, United States
Dates from 1771.
Wikidata Q2105290, joined on its National Register reference.
What the record says
- Built
- 1872
How to reach it
- 0.3 mi off the Coastal Byway
- 10.7 mi off the Independence Byway
- 19.9 mi off the Essex Coastal Scenic Byway
- 27.0 mi off the Branch River Valley Trail
Overlooks nearby
- Wildlife Viewing Platform · 22 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Fort William and Mary: 0.0 mi
- Rifleman's House: 0.7 mi
- Fort McClary Blockhouse: 0.7 mi
- Grave of William Pepperrell: 0.9 mi
- Fort Stark State Historic Site: 1.0 mi
- Boatswain Hill: 0.8 mi
- Sagamore Hill: 2.4 mi
- Sagamore Hill: 2.8 mi
- Forty Acre Hill: 3.1 mi
- Bartlett Hill: 3.9 mi
- Fort Foster Park: 1.0 mi
- Emery Park: 1.8 mi
- Prescott Park: 2.2 mi
- Rogers Park: 2.3 mi
- John Paul Jones Memorial Park: 2.3 mi
- Fairchild Conservation Easement: 1.3 mi
- Cutts: 1.5 mi
- Creek Farm Reservation: 1.8 mi
- Kittery Open Space: 1.9 mi
- Thompson Easement: 1.9 mi
- New Castle, NH Historical Society: 0.5 mi
- Fort McClary: 0.7 mi
- Wood Island Life Saving Station: 0.8 mi
- Lady Pepperell House Museum: 0.8 mi
- Seacoast Science Center: 1.8 mi
- Trial Gardens: 2.2 mi
- Presscott Park Formal Garden: 2.2 mi
- Community Gardens: 2.2 mi
- Victory Gardens: 2.3 mi
- Goodwin Garden: 2.3 mi
- Crescent Beach: 2.5 mi
- Seapoint Beach: 2.7 mi
- Wallis Sands Beach: 3.2 mi
- Pirates Cove Beach: 3.6 mi
- Rye North Beach: 4.3 mi
- Bones: 1.8 mi
- Great Blue Heron and Cormorant Sculpture: 2.0 mi
- My Mother the Wind: 2.0 mi
- Fisherman’s Luck: 2.2 mi
- Big Easy Chair: 2.4 mi
- Fort Constitution Historic Site: 0.0 mi
- EDALHAB: 1.8 mi
- Portsmouth Harbor Cruises: 2.5 mi
- Take Flight: 4.0 mi
- Triple Giant Slides: 4.4 mi
- Piscassic Falls: 12.1 mi
- Second Falls: 12.2 mi
- Packer's Falls: 12.4 mi
- Great Falls: 13.4 mi
- Lower Falls: 13.4 mi
- Dover Bluff: 8.5 mi
- York Cliffs: 10.4 mi
- Bald Head Cliff: 12.3 mi
- Coffin's Cut: 12.3 mi
- Coffin's Cut: 12.3 mi
- Fort McClary Picnic Area: 0.9 mi
- Birthday Bay: 4.4 mi
- Front Pavilion: 9.5 mi
- Scamman Pavilion: 9.5 mi
- 4H Pavilion: 9.7 mi
- Hampton Liquor and Wine Outlet Southbound: 12.1 mi
- Hampton Liquor and Wine Outlet Northbound: 12.2 mi
- Seabrook Rest Area: 15.5 mi
- I 95 SB Salisbury Rest Area: 15.9 mi
- Rest Area I-495 (South Bound): 23.0 mi
- Oil House: 0.0 mi
- Portsmouth Harbor Light: 0.0 mi
- Cape Neddick "Nubble" Lighthouse: 8.8 mi
- Front Range Light: 19.6 mi
- Jailhouse Spring: 13.8 mi
- Two Sisters Spring: 16.5 mi
- Lion's Spring: 19.9 mi
- Rail Spring: 23.0 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 11.7 miles of Marine Safety Detachment. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mount Agamenticus | N 5° | 210 m | 10.5 mi |
| Second Hill | N 7° | 167 m | 11.1 mi |
| Third Hill | N 10° | 159 m | 11.6 mi |
| Horse Hills | N 2° | 118 m | 9.7 mi |
| Third Hill | NNW 333° | 104 m | 8.0 mi |
| Horse Hills | N 359° | 98 m | 9.2 mi |
| Groundnut Hill | NNE 17° | 93 m | 10.0 mi |
| Stratham Hill | WSW 257° | 88 m | 9.4 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:47 | 18:18 | 18:55 |
| June solstice | 05:04 | 19:43 | 20:26 |
| September equinox | 06:31 | 18:05 | 18:42 |
| December solstice | 07:12 | 15:25 | 16:11 |
Local time (America/New_York).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 24 | 27 | 34 | 45 | 55 | 65 | 70 | 69 | 62 | 50 | 40 | 30 |
| Precip in | 3.6 | 3.6 | 4.8 | 4.6 | 4.0 | 4.6 | 3.9 | 3.7 | 4.1 | 4.9 | 4.1 | 4.9 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Greenland, 7 mi away.
Mean tidal range 8.63 ft at the nearest NOAA station.
NOAA CO-OPS station Fort Point, NH, under a mileaway — today’s predictions live there.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
National Register of Historic Places, reference 09000816OpenStreetMap- National Register of Historic Places — Portsmouth Harbor Light, reference 09000816, listed 10/08/09.
OpenStreetMap element way/1058293629
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