Nauset Light
Nauset Light is a lighthouse in Massachusetts, at a modelled elevation of 18 m. Deer Park Hill stands 165 m to the south-southwest, 8.2 miles off. The nearest named place is Keeper's House, a lighthouse less than a tenth of a mile away. Old King's Highway (Route 6A) passes 6.2 miles off. 42 named summits stand within 25 miles.
This current structure was originally one of the twin lights of Chatham, but relocated in 1923.
The story
Nauset Light, officially Nauset Beach Light, is a restored lighthouse on the Cape Cod National Seashore near Eastham, Massachusetts, erected in 1923 using the 1877 tower that was moved here from the Chatham Light. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The tower is a cast-iron plate shell lined with brick and stands 48 feet (15 m) high. The adjacent oil house (where fuel was stored in the early days) is made of brick and has also been restored. Fully automated, the beacon is a private aid to navigation. Tours of the tower and oil house are available in summer from the Nauset Light Preservation Society which operates, maintains and interprets the site. The tower is located adjacent to Nauset Light Beach.
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Dates from 1838.
Wikidata Q6981401, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Built
- 1873
- Height
- 14.9225 m
What to expect
- Operated by
- Nauset Light Preservation Society
How to reach it
- 6.2 mi off the Old King's Highway (Route 6A), National
Named places within 25 miles
- Nauset Light Beach: 0.1 mi
- Coast Guard Beach: 1.1 mi
- Marconi Beach: 2.2 mi
- Cooks Brook Beach: 2.8 mi
- Campground Beach: 2.8 mi
- Cook / Hake Cr: 1.3 mi
- Weiler Land: 1.4 mi
- Stoehr & Nicholsa Land: 1.5 mi
- Hollis Cr: 2.1 mi
- Krogmans Pond Property: 2.1 mi
- Three Sisters of Nauset: 0.2 mi
- Windmill Green: 2.3 mi
- Mill Field: 2.7 mi
- Mill Field: 2.7 mi
- Wiley Park: 2.8 mi
- Skiff Hill: 2.7 mi
- Fort Hill: 2.9 mi
- Mill Hill: 6.3 mi
- Cannon Hill: 6.5 mi
- Little Beach Hill: 6.7 mi
- Eastham Train Depot and Water Tower: 2.5 mi
- Capped Foundation of Former Gunn Dairy Barn: 2.9 mi
- Jeremiah's Gutter: 4.6 mi
- Coast Guard Motor Life Boat CG36500: 5.0 mi
- Battle of Orleans Massachusetts 1814: 5.1 mi
- Eastham 1869 Schoolhouse Museum: 1.8 mi
- French Cable Station Museum: 5.3 mi
- French Cable Station Museum: 5.3 mi
- Wellfleet Historical Society Museum: 6.7 mi
- Atwood-Higgins House: 8.5 mi
- Chime: 2.6 mi
- The Catch: 5.6 mi
- They Also Faced the Sea: 17.6 mi
- Homage to the Fishermen (1989): 17.8 mi
- Bubbles the Humpback: 17.8 mi
- Penniman House: 3.0 mi
- Jonathan Young Windmill: 4.9 mi
- Coast Guard Motor Lifeboat CG 36500: 5.0 mi
- Brewster Historical Society Windmill Village: 11.4 mi
- Fish Pier Observation Deck: 11.9 mi
- truck pull-off: 8.8 mi
- truck pull-off: 10.7 mi
- truck pull-off: 11.8 mi
- truck pull-off: 14.6 mi
- rest area: 16.2 mi
- Keeper's House: 0.0 mi
- Oil House: 0.0 mi
- U.S. Coast Guard Station: 13.0 mi
- Oil House: 13.0 mi
- Chatham Light: 13.0 mi
- Butterfly & Hummingbird Garden: 2.7 mi
- Suzanne's Garden: 17.7 mi
- PAAM Sculpture Garden: 17.9 mi
- Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Garden: 23.9 mi
- Indian Neck: 5.1 mi
- Top of Eroding Coastal Bank (Spring 2025): 14.0 mi
- Salten Point: 21.0 mi
- Fullers Point: 24.1 mi
- Picnick Area: 7.5 mi
- Hardings Beach Picnic Area: 13.2 mi
- Long Point: 16.1 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Nauset Light. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Deer Park Hill | SSW 211° | 165 m | 8.2 mi |
| Signal Hill | SW 234° | 60 m | 14.7 mi |
| Clay Hill | WSW 240° | 58 m | 24.1 mi |
| Black Ball Hill | SW 234° | 45 m | 15.2 mi |
| Mill Hill | SSW 203° | 41 m | 6.3 mi |
| The Highlands | NNW 336° | 41 m | 13.6 mi |
| Green Hill | NNW 337° | 38 m | 11.6 mi |
| Scorton Hill | WSW 247° | 35 m | 24.7 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:44 | 18:15 | 18:52 |
| June solstice | 05:06 | 19:37 | 20:19 |
| September equinox | 06:28 | 18:02 | 18:39 |
| December solstice | 07:05 | 15:28 | 16:12 |
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 | 32 | 33 | 38 | 46 | 55 | 64 | 71 | 71 | 64 | 54 | 45 | 37 |
| Precip in | 3.8 | 3.6 | 4.4 | 4.0 | 3.3 | 2.9 | 2.8 | 3.0 | 3.6 | 4.2 | 4.5 | 5.0 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Chatham Muni AP, 12 mi away.
The nearest NOAA station publishes daily tide predictions.
NOAA CO-OPS station Wellfleet, MA, 7 miaway — today’s predictions live there.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
National Register of Historic Places, reference 87001484OpenStreetMapWikipediaWikidataOfficial site- National Register of Historic Places — Nauset Beach Light, reference 87001484, listed 06/15/87.
OpenStreetMap element way/421853944
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