List of lighthouses in North Carolina
This is a list of lighthouses in North Carolina.
Name | Image | Location | Coordinates | Year first lit | Automated | Year deactivated | Current Lens | Focal Height |
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Bald Head Light | ![]() |
Bald Head Island | 33°52′24.5″N 78°0′24.5″W | 1794 (First) 1817 (Current) |
1985 (Relit) |
Active[1] (Inactive: 1935-1985) |
None | 110 ft (34 m) |
Bodie Island Light | ![]() |
Nags Head | 35.8185°N 75.5633°W | 1847 (First) 1872 (Current) |
1940 | Active | First-order Fresnel | 156 ft (48 m) |
Campbell Island Light | None Known | Wilmington | Unknown | 1849[2] | Never | 1865[2] (Destroyed) |
None | 25 ft (7.6 m)[2] |
Cape Fear Light | ![]() |
Cape Fear | 33.8927°N 78.0348°W | 1903 | Never | 1958 (Demolished) |
None | Unknown |
Cape Hatteras Light | ![]() |
Buxton | 35°15′01.92″N 75°31′43.74″W | 1803 (First) 1870 (Current) |
1950 | Active | DCB-224 | 187 ft (57 m) |
Cape Lookout Light | ![]() |
Cape Lookout | 34°36′19″N 76°32′10″W | 1812 (First) 1859 (Current) |
1950 | Active | LED | Unknown |
Croatan Shoal Light | ![]() |
Croatan Sound | N/A | Unknown | Never | 1864 (Destroyed) |
None | Unknown |
Currituck Beach Light | ![]() |
Corolla | 36.376667°N 75.830833°W | 1875 | 1939 | Active | First-order Fresnel | Unknown |
Diamond Shoal Light | Offshore | 35°9′12″N 75°17′48″W[3] | 1966 | 1977 | 2001 | None | 125 ft (38 m) | |
Federal Point Light | N/A | Kure Beach | Unknown | 1817[4](First) 1866[4] (Last) |
Never | 1879[4] (Destroyed in 1881) |
None | Unknown |
Frying Pan Shoals Light | ![]() |
Offshore | 33°29′N 77°35′W | 1964 | 1979 | 2003 | None | Unknown |
Hatteras Beacon | ![]() |
Buxton | Unknown | 1855 | Never | 1898 (Removed) |
None | Unknown |
Laurel Point Light | ![]() |
Laurel Point | N/A | 1880[5] | Never | 1950s[5] (Demolished) |
None | Unknown |
Long Point Beacon Light | ![]() |
Currituck | N/A | 1901 | Never | Unknown (Destroyed) |
None | Unknown |
Neuse River Light | ![]() |
Vandemere | N/A | 1828 | Never | Unknown (Destroyed) |
None | 35 ft (11 m) |
North River Light | N/A | Albemarle Sound | N/A | 1866[5] | Never | 1917[5] (Moved in 1920) |
None | Unknown |
Oak Island Light | ![]() |
Oak Island | 33.8929°N 78.035°W | 1849 (First) 1958 (Current) |
Always | Active | LED | 169 ft (52 m) |
Ocracoke Light | ![]() |
Ocracoke | 35°6′32.3″N 75°59′9.8″W | 1798 (First) 1823 (Current) |
1955 | Active | Fourth-order Fresnel | 75 ft (23 m) |
Pamlico Point Shoal Light | ![]() |
Mesic | N/A | 1828 (First) 1891 (Last) |
Never | 1950s (Demolished) |
None | Unknown |
Price Creek Light | ![]() |
Southport | 33°56′9″N 77°59′23″W | 1849 | Never | 1865 | None | 31 ft (9.4 m) |
Roanoke Marshes Light | ![]() |
Croatan Sound | 35°48′40″N 75°42′02″W | 1831 (First) 1877 (Last) |
Never | 1955A (Destroyed) |
None | Unknown |
Roanoke River Light | ![]() |
Albemarle Sound | 36.056029°N 76.610905°W | 1867 (First) 1903 (Current) |
Never | 1941B (Preserved) |
None | 35 ft (11 m) |
Wade Point Light | ![]() |
Pasquotank River (Entrance) |
N/A | 1855 (First) 1899 (Last) |
Never | 1950s (Destroyed) |
None | Unknown |
Notes
References
- "Bald Head Lighthouse". Lighthouse Friends. Retrieved October 14, 2017.
- "Name: Campbell's Island Light". Lighthouse Digest. Retrieved October 14, 2017.
- "National Data Buoy Center: Station DSLN7". Data Buoy Detail. NOAA, US National Data Buoy Center. Retrieved 2009-03-13.
- Rebecca Taylor & Gayle Keresey (November 4, 2013). "The Search for the Federal Point Lighthouse". federal-point-history.org. Retrieved October 14, 2017.
- Russ Rowlett. "Lighthouses of the United States: North Carolina". University of North Carolina. Retrieved October 14, 2017.
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