Point Cabrillo Light
Also known as: Point Cabrillo Light
Point Cabrillo Light Station (built 1908-09) near Caspar, California, with a 3rd-order Chance Brothers Fresnel lens; restored 1996-2001, original lens reinstalled 1999, National Register of Historic Places since 1991.
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Place
- Country
- United States
- Region
- Mendocino County / California
- Locality
- Not recorded
- Water area
- Not recorded
- Coordinate source
- United States Coast Guard Light List: 39-20-54.905N 123-49-33.828W
Identity
- LUX ID
- LUX-LH-000546
- Review status
- approved
- Object kind
- Lighthouse
- Mobility
- fixed
Structure
- Status
- Not recorded
- Construction date
- Not recorded
- Tower height
- Not recorded
- Tower form
- Not recorded
- Material
- Not recorded
- Daymark / colour scheme
- Not recorded
- Focal height
- Not recorded
- Light height
- Not recorded
Signal
- Light characteristic
- Not recorded
- Light intensity
- Not recorded
- Light range
- Not recorded
- Light number
- Not recorded
- Operation
- Not recorded
- Legacy light IDs
- Not recorded
- Call sign
- Not recorded
- Lens / optics
- Not curated
Position
- Latitude
- 39.34858 Inherited archive field
- Longitude
- -123.82606 Inherited archive field
Light Signature
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Names & naming history
- Point Cabrillo Light
Heritage identity & evidence
Identity
- LUX ID
LUX-LH-000546- Type
- Lighthouse
- Object kind
- Lighthouse
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Latitude
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Archive value: Latitude: 39.34858, Longitude: -123.82606
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Key sources
4 active / 4 total in-archive source links. Full sources below
External Identity Graph
- LUX Light ArchiveLUX-LH-000546 Canonical LUX ID
Local identity anchor for the record and related claims.
- Source URLs4 active / 4 total in-record source links Record source URLs
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- Point Cabrillo Light39.34858, -123.82606
Source Evidence
- Point Cabrillo Light Station State Historic Park brochureCalifornia State Parks identifies the installed third-order Fresnel lens as British-built by Chance Brothers, with 90 prisms and first lighting in 1909.
- Point Cabrillo Light Station State Historic ParkOfficial California State Parks page corroborates the Point Cabrillo Light Station host identity.
- US Coast Guard Light List Volume VI - Point Cabrillo LightThe US Coast Guard Light List publishes the exact Point Cabrillo Light coordinates used here.
- Point Cabrillo Light Station - National Park ServiceNational Register asset NRIS 91001092 confirms the historic district identity and original third-order Fresnel lens.