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Name: Marrowstone Point Light   Map it!

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Nearest Town or City:
Port Townsend, Washington, United States

Location: Admiralty Inlet, Puget Sound.


Click to enlarge: Photo   
Photo: Lynn Lary

Managing Organization:
Marrowstone Marine Field Station

Telephone: 360-385-1007

Website: http://wfrc.usgs.gov/labs/marrowstone.htm

Contact Address Information:
616 Marrowstone Point Road
Nordland
Washington, 98358, United States

Notes:
The keeper's quarters at this lighthouse are used for office and living space for a U.S. Geological Survey Station.

Tower Height: 28

Height of Focal Plane: 28

Characteristic and Range: White light occulting every 4 seconds.

Description of Tower: Light mounted on roof of fog signal building.

This light is operational

Other Buildings?
1895 1.5 story wood frame keeper's house, 1918 fog signal building, boathouse, pump house, lab buildings.

Date Established: 1882

Date Present Tower Built: 1912

Date Automated: 1962

Optics: Now 250 mm optic.

Current Use: Active aid to navigation, research facility.

Open To Public? Grounds only.

Directions:
This station is located next to Fort Flagler State Park, at the end of Flagler Road off WA 116 at the northern end of Marrowstone Island.

Mapquest URL: Click here to get a map to this lighthouse!

Keepers: Osmore Hale Morgan (?)


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