Oil Shed
Oil Shed is a lighthouse in Rhode Island, at a modelled elevation of 5 m. Chapman Hill stands 158 m to the north, 13 miles off. The nearest named place is Watch Hill Lighthouse, a lighthouse less than a tenth of a mile away. State Routes 49 & 14A passes 8.1 miles off.
What the record says
- Built
- 1856
How to reach it
- 8.1 mi off the State Routes 49 & 14A
- 14.5 mi off the Shannock Road
- 16.7 mi off the Ministerial Road
- 22.3 mi off the North Fork Trail
Named places within 25 miles
- Bear Hill: 0.4 mi
- Staunton Hill: 3.2 mi
- Mount Pleasant: 3.2 mi
- Pawcatuck Rock: 3.3 mi
- Wequetequock Hill: 3.8 mi
- John and Caroline Enright Preserve (Avalonia Land Conservancy): 2.4 mi
- Parker Brothers Preserve: 2.6 mi
- Dodge Paddock / Beal Preserve: 3.1 mi
- Cutler Street Open Space: 3.4 mi
- Pawcatuck River State Wildlife Management Area: 3.4 mi
- Barn Island Boat Launch: 2.5 mi
- Barn Island Hunting Area: 2.8 mi
- Cannon Square: 3.1 mi
- Wadawanuck Square (Borough Open Space): 3.4 mi
- Rotary Park: 3.7 mi
- 1814 Memorial: 2.9 mi
- Cannon Square: 3.1 mi
- Borough Hall: 3.2 mi
- Babcock-Smith House Museum: 5.1 mi
- Mystic Civil War Memorial: 6.4 mi
- Ocean House Beach: 0.5 mi
- DuBois Beach: 3.0 mi
- South Beach: 4.7 mi
- Chocomount Beach: 5.8 mi
- Nauyaug Coast: 5.9 mi
- Old Lighthouse Museum: 3.0 mi
- Capt. Nathaniel B. Palmer House: 3.7 mi
- Westerly Armory: 5.6 mi
- Denison Pequotsepos Nature Center: 6.1 mi
- Denison Homestead: 6.2 mi
- Ninigret Statue: 0.5 mi
- Penguin: 6.8 mi
- Mystic Blue: 6.8 mi
- John Kelley Statue: 6.9 mi
- Mjolnir: 7.0 mi
- Watch Hill Carousel: 0.4 mi
- This Old House Westerly House: 2.6 mi
- Platt-Lords View-Stillman Marshes: 4.4 mi
- Large Glacial Erratic: 5.1 mi
- Hellcat Propeller: 11.1 mi
- Grow and Go Seek Community Garden: 5.7 mi
- East Garden: 13.2 mi
- Cutting Garden: 13.2 mi
- West Garden: 13.2 mi
- Rock Garden: 13.2 mi
- Watch Hill Lighthouse: 0.0 mi
- Watch Hill Lighthouse Museum: 0.0 mi
- Southeast Lighthouse: 19.0 mi
- Block Island Southeast Light: 19.0 mi
- Block Island South East Light: 19.0 mi
- Clay Head: 16.9 mi
- Mohegan Bluffs: 18.2 mi
- Crow Head: 20.2 mi
- Rattlesnake Ledge: 24.2 mi
- Acabonack Cliff: 24.4 mi
- Picnic Pavilion: 11.0 mi
- Little Nini Pavillion: 11.1 mi
- Powder House: 13.8 mi
- Skate Hut: 13.9 mi
- Rest Area I-95 (North Bound): 7.4 mi
- Rest Area I-395 (South Bound): 17.8 mi
- Rest Area I-95 (South Bound): 20.1 mi
- Yantic Falls: 19.9 mi
- Silver Falls: 20.2 mi
- Stepstone Falls: 21.9 mi
- Old Spring: 10.5 mi
- Factory Pond: 14.7 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 13.9 miles of Oil Shed. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chapman Hill | N 359° | 158 m | 13.1 mi |
| Barns Hill | NNW 347° | 155 m | 13.5 mi |
| Pendleton Hill | N 3° | 153 m | 13.8 mi |
| Stewart Hill | N 354° | 149 m | 12.1 mi |
| Ayer Hill | NNW 337° | 144 m | 13.4 mi |
| Wintechog Hill | NNW 342° | 139 m | 11.4 mi |
| Cossaduck Hill | N 349° | 139 m | 11.8 mi |
| Swantown Hill | NNW 344° | 132 m | 12.3 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:52 | 18:23 | 19:00 |
| June solstice | 05:15 | 19:43 | 20:25 |
| September equinox | 06:36 | 18:10 | 18:47 |
| December solstice | 07:11 | 15:38 | 16:22 |
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 | 40 | 49 | 58 | 67 | 74 | 72 | 66 | 55 | 46 | 38 |
| Precip in | 3.3 | 2.7 | 4.2 | 3.9 | 3.3 | 3.5 | 2.9 | 3.5 | 3.8 | 4.3 | 3.5 | 3.8 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Westerly State AP, 4 mi away.
The nearest NOAA station publishes daily tide predictions.
NOAA CO-OPS station Watch Hill Point, RI, under a mile away — today’s predictions live there.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
National Register of Historic Places, reference 85001948OpenStreetMapOpenStreetMap element way/481348004
Day trips start here
- Watch Hill · 1 mi
- Stonington · 5 mi
- Westerly · 5 mi
- Mystic · 7 mi
- Ashaway · 9 mi
- Groton · 9 mi
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