Tinicum Rear Range Lighthouse
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Tinicum Rear Range Lighthouse is a lighthouse in New Jersey, at a modelled elevation of 9 m. Diamond Rock Hill stands 188 m to the northwest, 21 miles off. The nearest named place is Doctor Chester I Ulmer Park, a park 2.3 miles away. Blue Route passes 5.6 miles off. 26 named summits stand within 25 miles.
The story
The Tinicum Island Rear Range Light is a lighthouse located in the Billingsport section of Paulsboro in Gloucester County, New Jersey, the rear of a pair of range lights marking a section of the channel in the Delaware River south of Philadelphia. The lighthouse is surrounded by baseball fields next to the new marine terminal for the Port of Paulsboro and is still active for navigation on the Delaware River. It works in conjunction with the Tinicum Front Range Light, known as the Billingsport Front Light, situated on the banks of the Delaware River at the front of Fort Billings Park next to the Paulsboro Refinery. Front and rear range lighthouses guide sailors who, by aligning the two lights and keeping one light on top of the other, stay in its center and avoid Little Tinicum Island as they travel upstream. The Tinicum Island Range Lights were activated on New Year's Eve 1880. They had a visible range of 8.5 nautical miles (15.7 km; 9.8 mi). The lights were changed from oil to electric in 1917. The Coast Guard automated the lights in 1933. The light tower originally had a keeper's dwelling with seven rooms, along with a brick oil house, frame barn and barnyard, cow shed, poultry house, and privy on 4.8 acres (1.9 ha) of land. The dwelling buildings were demolished sometime in the 1950s after they fell into disrepair. The rear range lighthouse, which is owned by the United States Coast Guard, was added to the National Register of Historic Places on September 15, 2005. Tinicum Rear Range Lighthouse Society offers regular tours, including a climb to the top of the tower, the third full weekend of each month from April through October and special tours with advance notice. Surrounding views from the lighthouse include Philadelphia and its airport.
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Dates from 1880.
Wikidata Q7808231, linked from the OpenStreetMap record's article tag.
What the record says
- Height
- 26 m
How to reach it
- 5.6 mi off the Blue Route
- 17.2 mi off the Bayshore Heritage Byway, National
- 17.2 mi off the Delaware Bayshore Byway, National
- 18.6 mi off the Brandywine Valley Scenic Byway, National
Overlooks nearby
- Hawk Point · 23 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Doctor Chester I Ulmer Park: 2.3 mi
- Memorial Park: 2.3 mi
- Fort Mifflin: 2.4 mi
- Union Fields: 2.4 mi
- Greenwich Township Little League Ball Fields: 2.7 mi
- Fort Mifflin: 2.4 mi
- The James & Ann Whitall House: 3.0 mi
- Repaupo Fire Museum: 4.5 mi
- Gloucester County Historical Society Museum: 4.7 mi
- Mantua Township Historical Commission: 5.4 mi
- Red Bank Battle Monument: 3.1 mi
- Fort Mercer: 3.1 mi
- Christopher Greene Monument: 3.2 mi
- Flight Test Memorial: 4.5 mi
- Veterans Memorial: 5.4 mi
- Eastwick Community Garden: 3.3 mi
- Sankofa Community Farm at Bartram's Garden: 5.9 mi
- Water Garden: 6.0 mi
- Common Flower Garden: 6.0 mi
- Ann Bartram Carr Garden: 6.0 mi
- Melville Statue: 4.6 mi
- Wilt Chamberlain: 5.2 mi
- Ed Snider Statue: 5.2 mi
- Score!: 5.4 mi
- Julius Erving Statue: 5.4 mi
- Commandant's Quarters: 4.8 mi
- Italian market: 7.7 mi
- American Bandstand: 7.8 mi
- One Liberty Observation Deck: 8.2 mi
- The Universal Sphere: 8.3 mi
- Tall Pines State Preserve: 7.2 mi
- Almonesson Creek Park: 7.9 mi
- Ceres Park & Nature Preserve: 8.2 mi
- Marple Conservation Area: 9.2 mi
- Centennial Arboretum: 9.6 mi
- Picnic Area #1: 6.2 mi
- Picnic Area #2: 6.2 mi
- Picnic Grove: 7.6 mi
- Bird Lake Picnic Area: 8.8 mi
- Picnic Area 1: 9.8 mi
- Wawa Truck Stop: 11.6 mi
- Deepwater Rest Area: 16.7 mi
- King of Prussia Service Plaza: 18.1 mi
- Washington Lake Beach: 10.6 mi
- Deemer's Beach: 22.7 mi
- Historical "Ancient Indian Spring": 11.5 mi
- West Branch Trout Creek Spring: 17.1 mi
- Monkey Rock: 17.1 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Tinicum Rear Range Lighthouse. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Diamond Rock Hill | NW 318° | 188 m | 21.4 mi |
| Mount Misery | NW 323° | 176 m | 20.8 mi |
| Ebright Azimuth | W 267° | 137 m | 14.8 mi |
| Chestnut Hill | N 6° | 136 m | 16.0 mi |
| Hunting Hill | NW 305° | 125 m | 13.6 mi |
| Osborne Hill | WNW 285° | 113 m | 20.2 mi |
| Militia Hill | N 1° | 104 m | 18.8 mi |
| Camp Hill | N 7° | 104 m | 19.5 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:05 | 18:37 | 19:13 |
| June solstice | 05:34 | 19:53 | 20:33 |
| September equinox | 06:49 | 18:24 | 19:00 |
| December solstice | 07:20 | 15:57 | 16:40 |
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 | 34 | 36 | 44 | 55 | 64 | 74 | 79 | 77 | 70 | 58 | 47 | 39 |
| Precip in | 3.1 | 2.8 | 4.0 | 3.5 | 3.3 | 4.0 | 4.4 | 4.3 | 4.4 | 3.5 | 2.9 | 4.0 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Phila Intl AP, 2 mi away.
The nearest NOAA station publishes daily tide predictions.
NOAA CO-OPS station Billingsport, N.J., NJ, under a mileaway — today’s predictions live there.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikipediaOpenStreetMap element way/788057948
Day trips start here
- Gibbstown · 3 mi
- Tinicum Township · 3 mi
- Delaware River Region · 5 mi
- Woodbury · 5 mi
- Lansdowne · 6 mi
- Philadelphia/South · 6 mi
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