Yerba Buena Island Lighthouse
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Yerba Buena Island Lighthouse is a lighthouse in California, at a modelled elevation of 11 m. Chaparral Peak stands 540 m to the east-northeast, 9.0 miles off. The nearest named place is Quarters A, a lighthouse 0.1 miles away.
The tower was built 1873, but the lighthouse did not begin operation until 1875 when the fifth order lens was transferred from Yaquina Lighthouse in Oregon.
The story
Yerba Buena Lighthouse is a lighthouse in California, United States, in the San Francisco Bay on Yerba Buena Island, California
From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Dates from 1875.
Wikidata Q8052543, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Built
- 1873
- Height
- 5 m
What to expect
- Operated by
- U.S. Coast Guard
How to reach it
Named places within 25 miles
- Hilltop East: 0.3 mi
- Panorama Park: 0.4 mi
- Buckeye Grove: 0.6 mi
- Clipper Cove Beach: 0.6 mi
- Causeway Park: 0.8 mi
- Point of Infinity: 0.4 mi
- Islands of the Pacific: 0.8 mi
- Signal: 1.3 mi
- three_dog_heads: 1.4 mi
- BOW: 1.9 mi
- Bimla Gill Rhinehart: 0.5 mi
- Mohandas K. Gandhi: 1.8 mi
- Hills Brothers Coffee: 1.9 mi
- Location of former Embarcadero Freeway: 1.9 mi
- The River Lines: 1.9 mi
- Treasure Island Naval Station: 0.8 mi
- San Francisco Ferry Building: 1.9 mi
- Bayside History Walk: 1.9 mi
- Salesforce Park Cable Car: 2.2 mi
- Filbert Steps: 2.3 mi
- Pier 24: 1.9 mi
- San Francisco Railway Museum: 2.0 mi
- Exploratorium: 2.0 mi
- San Francisco Historical Society Museum: 2.4 mi
- Institute of Contemporary Art San Francisco: 2.4 mi
- 123 Mission Plaza: 2.0 mi
- Grace Marchant Garden: 2.3 mi
- Filbert Steps Garden: 2.4 mi
- East Garden: 2.6 mi
- Learning Garden: 2.7 mi
- Rincon Hill: 2.2 mi
- Telegraph Hill: 2.4 mi
- Russian Hill: 3.0 mi
- Nob Hill: 3.1 mi
- Lafayette Heights: 3.7 mi
- Greg & Bev James Picnic Area: 3.2 mi
- Picnic Pod A: 5.2 mi
- East Bay campsite #3: 5.2 mi
- East Bay campsite #2: 5.3 mi
- East Bay #1: 5.3 mi
- Crab Cove Marine Reserve: 5.4 mi
- Tern Nesting: 6.4 mi
- Point Isabel Regional Shoreline: 6.7 mi
- Grinnell Natural Area: 6.9 mi
- South Richmond Shoreline: 7.2 mi
- Radio Beach: 2.5 mi
- Toll Plaza Beach: 2.8 mi
- Crane Cove Beach: 3.3 mi
- Encinal beach: 4.7 mi
- Quarry Beach: 4.8 mi
- El Polín Spring: 5.1 mi
- El Polín Spring: 5.2 mi
- El Polín Spring: 5.2 mi
- Old Spring: 9.8 mi
- Lone Tree Spring: 14.5 mi
- Grey Fox Creek Fountain: 6.7 mi
- Huntington Falls: 6.7 mi
- Rainbow Falls: 6.8 mi
- Kent Falls: 12.9 mi
- Dawn Falls: 14.2 mi
- Yellow Bluff: 6.3 mi
- East Slope Badlands: 7.6 mi
- Chab: 13.8 mi
- Vent 5: 14.8 mi
- Aramai Point: 15.8 mi
- Lynn: 7.1 mi
- Winehaven: 10.4 mi
- Russell City: 16.4 mi
- Stokes Landing: 18.8 mi
- Eckley: 19.1 mi
- Quarters A: 0.1 mi
- Point Bonita Lighthouse: 9.1 mi
- Crystal Springs Safety Roadside Rest Area: 18.6 mi
- Rest Stop: 23.6 mi
- Bird Island Arch: 9.6 mi
- Steep Ravine Hot Spring: 15.6 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 9.2 miles of Yerba Buena Island Lighthouse. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chaparral Peak | ENE 57° | 540 m | 9.0 mi |
| Grizzly Peak | NE 54° | 531 m | 8.7 mi |
| Spiral Knob | ENE 58° | 423 m | 8.5 mi |
| San Bruno Mountain Summit | SSW 206° | 371 m | 9.2 mi |
| Richardson East | WNW 292° | 338.6 m | 8.0 mi |
| William Rust Summit | NNE 25° | 306 m | 9.1 mi |
| Mount Davidson | SW 226° | 283 m | 6.9 mi |
| Slacker Hill | WNW 286° | 282 m | 7.2 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:14 | 18:47 | 19:22 |
| June solstice | 05:48 | 19:56 | 20:36 |
| September equinox | 06:58 | 18:33 | 19:08 |
| December solstice | 07:22 | 16:13 | 16:55 |
Local time (America/Los_Angeles).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: year-round.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 52 | 54 | 56 | 56 | 58 | 60 | 60 | 62 | 63 | 62 | 57 | 53 |
| Precip in | 4.4 | 4.4 | 3.2 | 1.6 | 0.7 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.9 | 2.6 | 4.8 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — SAN Francisco Dwtn, 4 mi away.
The nearest NOAA station publishes daily tide predictions.
NOAA CO-OPS station Yerba Buena Island, CA, under a mileaway — today’s predictions live there.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
National Register of Historic Places, reference 91001096OpenStreetMapWikidata- National Register of Historic Places — Yerba Buena Island Lighthouse, reference 91001096, listed 09/03/91.
OpenStreetMap element way/291189057
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