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Fourteen Foot Bank Light

Bowers, DE · Active aid to navigation

No access information published

Those records publish navigation and historic data only — no visitor-access information — so none is shown. Access, if any, is set by the owner or operator.

Access source: Federal records checked: the U.S. Coast Guard AtoN / Light List record for this aid and its National Register of Historic Places record · Checked 2026-11-12

Owner / operator: U.S. Coast Guard (active aid to navigation)

The light

LocationBowers, DE (Kent County)
StatusActive aid to navigation (USCG AtoN file)
Light List number1575
Light characteristicFl W 9s
Height of light above water59 ft (USCG AtoN)
StructureWhite tower and dwelling on black cylindrical pier.
National Register of Historic PlacesListed 3/27/1989 · Reference #89000286
Position39.04826, -75.18221 (federal record; not for navigation)
Coast Guard remarkRed from 332.5° to 151°, covers Brown and Joe Flogger Shoals. HORN: 1 blast ev 30s (3s bl). Operates continuously from Mar. 15 to Dec. 1. Structure maintained by entity outside the U.S. Coast Guard.

Sources

USCG AtoN file via NOAA MarineCadastre (USCG NAVCEN data); NPS National Register of Historic Places listed-properties database (nps.gov).

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