Portsmouth Harbor Light
Portsmouth Harbor Light is a lighthouse in Maine, at a modelled elevation of 0 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
The Portsmouth Harbor Light is a historic lighthouse located within Fort Constitution in New Castle, New Hampshire, United States.
From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Dates from 1771.
Wikidata Q2105290, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Built
- 1878
- Height
- 15 m
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: 0.1 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: 0.9 mi
- Boatswain Hill: 0.8 mi
- Sagamore Hill: 2.4 mi
- Sagamore Hill: 2.8 mi
- Forty Acre Hill: 3.1 mi
- Bartlett Hill: 4.0 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: 2.0 mi
- New Castle, NH Historical Society: 0.5 mi
- Wood Island Life Saving Station: 0.7 mi
- Fort McClary: 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: 2.3 mi
- Victory Gardens: 2.3 mi
- Goodwin Garden: 2.3 mi
- Crescent Beach: 2.5 mi
- Seapoint Beach: 2.6 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: 2.1 mi
- Fisherman’s Luck: 2.2 mi
- Big Easy Chair: 2.4 mi
- Fort Constitution Historic Site: 0.1 mi
- EDALHAB: 1.8 mi
- Portsmouth Harbor Cruises: 2.6 mi
- Take Flight: 4.0 mi
- Triple Giant Slides: 4.4 mi
- Piscassic Falls: 12.1 mi
- Second Falls: 12.3 mi
- Packer's Falls: 12.5 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: 9.6 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
- Marine Safety Detachment: 0.0 mi
- Cape Neddick "Nubble" Lighthouse: 8.8 mi
- Front Range Light: 19.6 mi
- Jailhouse Spring: 13.8 mi
- Two Sisters Spring: 16.6 mi
- Lion's Spring: 19.9 mi
- Rail Spring: 23.0 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 11.7 miles of Portsmouth Harbor Light. 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 | 11.2 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 09000816OpenStreetMapWikipediaWikidata- National Register of Historic Places — Portsmouth Harbor Light, reference 09000816, listed 10/08/09.
OpenStreetMap element way/47405349
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