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Port Washington Breakwater Light

Port Washington, WI · 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

LocationPort Washington, WI (Ozaukee County)
StatusActive aid to navigation (USCG AtoN file)
Light List number20770
Light characteristicFl R 6s
Height of light above water78 ft (USCG AtoN)
StructureOn square tower.
National Register of Historic PlacesListed 12/3/2018 · Reference #100003160
Position43.38523, -87.85960 (federal record; not for navigation)
Coast Guard remarkHORN: 2 blasts ev 30s (2s bl-2s si-2s bl-24s si). Fog signal operates by keying the microphone five times on VHF-FM channel 83A.

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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