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Oak Island Light

Caswell Beach, NC · 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

LocationCaswell Beach, NC (Brunswick County)
StatusActive aid to navigation (USCG AtoN file)
Light List number810
Light characteristicFl (4)W 10s
Height of light above water180 ft (USCG AtoN)
StructureCylindrical tower, top third black, middle third white, lower third gray.
National Register of Historic PlacesListed 4/5/2007 · Reference #07000293
Position33.89283, -78.03493 (federal record; not for navigation)
Coast Guard remarkStructure 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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