Sturgeon Bay Canal North Pierhead Light

Sturgeon Bay Canal North Pierhead Light


Location	Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin
Coordinates	44°47′31.26″N 87°18′34.322″W / 44.7920167°N 87.30953389°W / 44.7920167; -87.30953389Coordinates: 44°47′31.26″N 87°18′34.322″W / 44.7920167°N 87.30953389°W / 44.7920167; -87.30953389^[1]
Year first constructed	1903
Year first lit	1903
Foundation	Concrete
Construction	Cast iron
Tower shape	Cylindrical on square fog signal house
Height	39 feet (12 m)
Original lens	Sixth order Fresnel lens
Current lens	12 inches (300 mm) Tideland Signal ML-300 acrylic lens^[2]
Range	9 nautical miles (17 km; 10 mi)^[1]
Characteristic	Red, flashing 2.5 s^[1]
USCG number	7-21005

The Sturgeon Bay Canal North Pierhead Light is a lighthouse located on Sturgeon Bay in Door County, Wisconsin.

Painted red, the light is situated on the north pier of the southern entrance to the Sturgeon Bay Ship Canal.

There are two lighthouses at this location, the other being the Sturgeon Bay Canal Lighthouse.

Notes

1 2 3 Light List, Volume VII, Great Lakes (PDF). Light List. United States Coast Guard. 2014.
↑ Rowlett, Russ. "Lighthouses of the United States: Eastern Wisconsin". The Lighthouse Directory. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Sturgeon Bay Canal North Pierhead Lighthouse

References

"Historic Light Station Information and Photography: Wisconsin". United States Coast Guard Historian's Office.
Light List, Volume VII, Great Lakes (PDF). Light List. United States Coast Guard.

Additional reading

Havighurst, Walter (1943) The Long Ships Passing: The Story of the Great Lakes, Macmillan Publishers.
Oleszewski, Wes, Great Lakes Lighthouses, American and Canadian: A Comprehensive Directory/Guide to Great Lakes Lighthouses, (Gwinn, Michigan: Avery Color Studios, Inc., 1998) ISBN 0-932212-98-0.
Pepper, Terry. "Seeing the Light: Lighthouses on the western Great Lakes".
Sapulski, Wayne S., (2001) Lighthouses of Lake Michigan: Past and Present (Paperback) (Fowlerville: Wilderness Adventure Books) ISBN 0-923568-47-6; ISBN 978-0-923568-47-4.
Wright, Larry and Wright, Patricia, Great Lakes Lighthouses Encyclopedia Hardback (Erin: Boston Mills Press, 2006) ISBN 1-55046-399-3.

External links

Lighthouses of Wisconsin

See also: List of lighthouses in Wisconsin

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