Oil House
Oil House is a lighthouse in Massachusetts, at a modelled elevation of 3 m. Peaked Hill stands 95 m to the southwest, 11 miles off. The nearest named place is West Chop Light, a lighthouse less than a tenth of a mile away. Old King's Highway (Route 6A) passes 20 miles off.
The story
Lighthouse in Massachusetts, United States.
Dates from 1891.
Wikidata Q7984740, joined on its National Register reference.
What the record says
- Built
- 1847
How to reach it
- 19.5 mi off the Old King's Highway (Route 6A), National
Named places within 25 miles
- Owen Park: 1.6 mi
- Prospect Park: 1.7 mi
- Boch Park: 1.9 mi
- Veterans Memorial Park: 2.0 mi
- Morton Park: 2.0 mi
- Telegraph Hill: 1.8 mi
- Tashmoo Hill: 2.6 mi
- Pilot Hill: 2.8 mi
- Nobska Hill: 3.8 mi
- Mount Sod: 5.0 mi
- Tisbury Town Beach: 1.2 mi
- Owen Park Beach: 1.5 mi
- Eastville Beach: 1.6 mi
- Doug's Cove: 1.7 mi
- Lake Tashmoo Town Beach: 2.0 mi
- Soldiers Memorial: 2.8 mi
- War Memorial: 2.8 mi
- Nobska Lighthouse: 3.8 mi
- Woods Holl: 4.8 mi
- Katharine Lee Bates: 5.0 mi
- West Chop Meadow: 0.3 mi
- West Chop Woods: 0.5 mi
- Carpenters Woods: 0.8 mi
- Eastville Beach Jetty: 1.6 mi
- Eastville Point Beach: 1.6 mi
- Old Schoolhouse Museum and Liberty Pole: 1.7 mi
- Martha's Vineyard Museum: 2.2 mi
- Cottage Museum: 2.6 mi
- Mariposa Museum: 2.7 mi
- Woods Hole Historical Museum: 4.6 mi
- Husselton Head: 0.8 mi
- North Head: 2.0 mi
- Makonikey Head: 3.9 mi
- Falmouth Heights: 4.0 mi
- Nobska Point: 5.6 mi
- Flying Horses Carousel: 2.7 mi
- The Liberté: 4.4 mi
- Falmouth Road Race Finish Line: 4.4 mi
- Falmouth Road Race Starting Line: 4.8 mi
- Big Bridge: 5.2 mi
- Spohr Public Gardens: 4.8 mi
- Garden of Our Lady: 4.9 mi
- Colonial Gardens: 5.2 mi
- Mashpee Community Garden: 13.0 mi
- Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Garden: 18.6 mi
- Helen Keller: 4.8 mi
- Whale Tail: 4.9 mi
- Rachel Carson: 4.9 mi
- Buddha: 8.0 mi
- Tree of Bike: 12.2 mi
- West Chop Light: 0.0 mi
- Nobska Point Light: 3.8 mi
- Clark's Point Light: 17.5 mi
- truck pull-off: 18.5 mi
- Rest Area SR-25 Welcome Center: 20.7 mi
- Yarmouth Tourist Information Center: 21.4 mi
- Bourne Recreation Area: 18.4 mi
- Herring Run Recreational Area: 20.3 mi
- Crystal Spring: 18.5 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 24.8 miles of Oil House. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Peaked Hill | SW 220° | 95 m | 11.2 mi |
| Pine Hill | N 6° | 93 m | 15.8 mi |
| Flatrock Hill | N 9° | 82 m | 19.2 mi |
| Avery Hill | N 7° | 80 m | 17.5 mi |
| Prospect Hill | SW 224° | 78 m | 11.1 mi |
| Discovery Hill | NNE 22° | 77 m | 18.1 mi |
| Deer Horn Hill | N 2° | 71 m | 12.4 mi |
| Whiting Hill | SW 226° | 68 m | 7.4 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:47 | 18:18 | 18:55 |
| June solstice | 05:09 | 19:38 | 20:20 |
| September equinox | 06:30 | 18:05 | 18:42 |
| December solstice | 07:06 | 15:32 | 16:16 |
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 | 37 | 47 | 56 | 65 | 72 | 72 | 66 | 56 | 46 | 38 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Woods Hole Golf Club, 5 mi away.
Mean tidal range 1.59 ft at the nearest NOAA station.
NOAA CO-OPS station VINEYARD HAVEN, VINEYARD HVN HBR, MA, 2 mi away — today’s predictions live there.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
National Register of Historic Places, reference 87001506OpenStreetMap- National Register of Historic Places — West Chop Light Station, reference 87001506, listed 06/15/87.
OpenStreetMap element way/216359735
Day trips start here
- Marion · 17 mi
- Mattapoisett · 17 mi
- SouthCoast · 17 mi
- Wareham · 20 mi
- Dartmouth · 21 mi
- New Bedford · 21 mi
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