Oak Island Lighthouse
Oak Island Lighthouse is a lighthouse in North Carolina, at a recorded elevation of 3 m. Sand Hill stands 17 m to the north-northwest, 19 miles off. The nearest named place is Buoy 1, a historic site 0.1 miles away. Brunswick Town Road passes 11 miles off.
The story
The Oak Island Lighthouse is located in the Town of Caswell Beach near the mouth of the Cape Fear River in Southeastern North Carolina. It sits next to the Oak Island Coast Guard Station on the east end of Oak Island in Brunswick County looking south out at the Atlantic Ocean. Featuring 16 LED lights which produce four, one-second bursts of light every 10 seconds, it has a luminous range of 20.5 nautical miles. Owned by the town since 2004, it is managed by a citizens group (Friends of Oak Island Lighthouse).
From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Dates from 1957.
Wikidata Q4286387, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Built
- 1958
- Height
- 153 ft
- Elevation
- 03 m
How to reach it
- 11.2 mi off the Brunswick Town Road
- 16.1 mi off the Green Swamp Byway
- 21.9 mi off the Cape Fear Historic Byway
Named places within 25 miles
- Keziah Park: 1.9 mi
- Waterfront Park: 1.9 mi
- Fort Johnston-Southport Museum & Visitors' Center: 2.0 mi
- Southport Community Center: 2.0 mi
- Franklin Square Park: 2.1 mi
- Buoy 1: 0.1 mi
- Buoy 2: 0.1 mi
- Battery Shipp: 0.5 mi
- Battery Bagley: 0.6 mi
- Battery Swift: 0.8 mi
- Indigo Plantation Marsh Preserve: 1.9 mi
- Bald Head Island Natural Area: 2.0 mi
- Bald Head Island Natural Area: 2.1 mi
- Bald Head Island Natural Area: 2.1 mi
- Bald Head Island Natural Area: 2.2 mi
- Fort Johnston: 2.0 mi
- North Carolina Maritime Museum at Southport: 2.0 mi
- Fort Fisher Historic Museum: 8.7 mi
- North Carolina Military History Museum: 9.1 mi
- Federal Point History Center: 13.0 mi
- Caswell Beach: 0.9 mi
- East Beach: 4.8 mi
- Oak Island Cabana: 4.9 mi
- Bay Beach: 5.0 mi
- Long Beach: 7.0 mi
- Bald Head Lighthouse: 2.4 mi
- Supply Shed: 2.4 mi
- Captain Charlie’s I: 5.1 mi
- Captain Charlie’s II: 5.1 mi
- Cape Fear Lighthouse Foundation: 5.1 mi
- Caswell Avenue Community Garden: 2.4 mi
- Fly-Trap Farm: 17.7 mi
- The Transplanted Garden: 24.1 mi
- Devon Park Community Garden: 24.4 mi
- Barnes Bluff: 2.9 mi
- Big Bluff: 3.1 mi
- Sand Hill: 19.0 mi
- OIB Sign: 23.1 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Oak Island Lighthouse. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sand Hill | NNW 343° | 17 m | 19.0 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:17 | 18:51 | 19:24 |
| June solstice | 06:02 | 19:50 | 20:27 |
| September equinox | 07:01 | 18:38 | 19:11 |
| December solstice | 07:14 | 16:30 | 17:08 |
Local time (America/New_York).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Feb–Jun, Sep–Dec.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 48 | 50 | 56 | 63 | 71 | 79 | 82 | 81 | 76 | 67 | 57 | 51 |
| Precip in | 3.7 | 3.3 | 4.0 | 3.1 | 3.4 | 4.0 | 5.6 | 6.8 | 8.2 | 5.4 | 3.4 | 3.7 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Southport 5 N, 7 mi away.
The nearest NOAA station publishes daily tide predictions.
NOAA CO-OPS station Fort Caswell, NC, 1 miaway — today’s predictions live there.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
National Register of Historic Places, reference 07000293OpenStreetMapWikipediaWikidata- National Register of Historic Places — Oak Island Lighthouse, reference 07000293, listed 04/05/07.
OpenStreetMap element way/246964348
Day trips start here
- Southport · 2 mi
- Oak Island · 6 mi
- Kure Beach · 10 mi
- Carolina Beach · 13 mi
- Wilmington · 24 mi
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