Stratford Point Light
Stratford Point Light is a lighthouse in Connecticut, at a modelled elevation of 4 m. Moose Hill stands 198 m to the north-northwest, 14 miles off. The nearest named place is Keeper's Dwelling, a lighthouse less than a tenth of a mile away. Merritt Parkway passes 6.1 miles off.
The story
Stratford Point Light is a historic lighthouse in the Lordship neighborhood of Stratford, Connecticut, United States, at the mouth of the Housatonic River. The second tower was one of the first prefabricated cylindrical lighthouses in the country and remains active. It sits on a 4-acre (1.6 ha) tract at the southeastern tip of Stratford Point.
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Dates from 1822.
Wikidata Q7621979, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Built
- 1881
How to reach it
- 6.1 mi off the Merritt Parkway, National
Overlooks nearby
- Grumman ave/ Merritt pkwy bridge · 16 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Connecticut Air & Space Center: 1.4 mi
- Catharine B Mitchell Museum: 2.8 mi
- National Helicopter Museum Inc: 3.3 mi
- Barnum Museum: 4.7 mi
- Housatonic Museum of Art: 4.8 mi
- Short Beach Park: 0.7 mi
- George Force Park: 2.3 mi
- Low Park: 2.3 mi
- Wildermere Beach: 2.5 mi
- Bond's Dock: 2.6 mi
- Academy Hill: 1.9 mi
- Success Hill: 3.9 mi
- Knobb Hill: 5.1 mi
- Second Hill: 5.3 mi
- Meetinghouse Hill: 5.8 mi
- Short Beach: 0.6 mi
- Lordship Beach: 0.9 mi
- Long Beach: 2.3 mi
- Walnut Beach: 3.3 mi
- Pleasure Beach: 3.5 mi
- Stratford Point Reserve: 0.2 mi
- Charles E. Wheeler Wildlife Management Area: 2.3 mi
- Beaver Brook Trails: 4.4 mi
- Mondo Ponds Nature Preserve: 4.7 mi
- Wooster Park: 4.7 mi
- Liberty Rock: 3.7 mi
- Perry Memorial Archway: 4.5 mi
- Submersible Wreck: 5.0 mi
- Simon Lake salvage sub wreck: 5.0 mi
- White Oak: 5.1 mi
- Urban Roots Bridgeport: 5.5 mi
- Rose/Wedding garden: 5.8 mi
- Eisenhower Community Garden: 7.0 mi
- Drew Park Community Gardens: 7.5 mi
- Fairfield Museum Pollinator Garden: 7.6 mi
- Miniature Windmill: 5.8 mi
- Miniature Lighthouse: 5.8 mi
- Heron: 7.7 mi
- Mother Mary: 8.2 mi
- An American Dream: 13.6 mi
- Farmill River Falls: 7.4 mi
- Indian Well Falls: 12.9 mi
- Devil's Glen Falls: 14.1 mi
- Wepawaug Falls: 15.1 mi
- Wintergreen Falls: 15.2 mi
- Burr Homestead: 7.7 mi
- PEZ Visitor Center: 9.5 mi
- Dynamite Storage Tunnel: 11.4 mi
- Earthplace: 14.4 mi
- Nelli Green's Bridge: 15.0 mi
- Gulf Beach Picnic Tables: 5.0 mi
- Picnic Grove: 5.7 mi
- Cedar Grove: 13.2 mi
- The Rotary Pavilion: 13.2 mi
- Pond View: 13.3 mi
- Keeper's Dwelling: 0.0 mi
- Tongue Point Light: 4.0 mi
- Peck Ledge Light: 14.8 mi
- Eatons Neck Light: 20.5 mi
- Stamford Harbor Ledge Light: 24.8 mi
- Rest Area CT-15 (South Bound): 9.3 mi
- Rest Area CT-15 (North Bound): 9.3 mi
- RT. 15 New Canaan NB Service Plaza: 19.7 mi
- RT. 15 New Canaan SB Service Plaza: 19.7 mi
- Forbes Bluff: 13.2 mi
- Duck Island Bluff: 21.2 mi
- Chimney Corner: 21.3 mi
- Caumsett State Historic Park Bluffs: 23.9 mi
- Pleasure Beach: 3.4 mi
- Cuties Island: 22.7 mi
- Cold Spring: 15.7 mi
- The Silver Spring: 22.0 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 13.9 miles of Stratford Point Light. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Moose Hill | NNW 337° | 198 m | 13.6 mi |
| Israel Hill | NNW 342° | 192 m | 12.8 mi |
| Bugg Hill | NNW 333° | 189 m | 13.3 mi |
| Tashua Hill | NW 315° | 179 m | 10.7 mi |
| Walnut Tree Hill | NNW 342° | 171 m | 11.2 mi |
| Hirams Hill | NW 321° | 167 m | 13.0 mi |
| Booth Hill | NNW 334° | 160 m | 9.8 mi |
| Powells Hill | WNW 296° | 159 m | 13.3 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:57 | 18:28 | 19:05 |
| June solstice | 05:21 | 19:48 | 20:29 |
| September equinox | 06:41 | 18:15 | 18:51 |
| December solstice | 07:15 | 15:43 | 16:27 |
Local time (America/New_York).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 31 | 33 | 40 | 50 | 60 | 70 | 76 | 75 | 68 | 56 | 46 | 37 |
| Precip in | 3.2 | 3.1 | 4.1 | 4.2 | 3.6 | 3.8 | 3.3 | 4.0 | 4.0 | 3.8 | 3.1 | 4.0 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Igor I Sikorsky MEM AP, 2 mi away.
The nearest NOAA station publishes daily tide predictions.
NOAA CO-OPS station Sniffens Point, CT, 3 mi away — today’s predictions live there.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
National Register of Historic Places, reference 89001476OpenStreetMapWikipediaWikidata- National Register of Historic Places — Stratford Point Lighthouse, reference 89001476, listed 05/29/90.
OpenStreetMap element way/929354048
Day trips start here
- Stamford · 24 mi
- Bayville · 29 mi
- Oyster Bay · 30 mi
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