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Condition at this date:

Shape of tower in plan:

Form of tower:

Height from base to ventilator ball:

Height of focal plane
above mean high water:

Background of lighthouse as seen from sea:

Color of tower:

Color of tower/ how produced:

Tower connection:

Object for navigation:

Building materials:

General desc:

Wall thickness at base:

Wall thickness at parapet:

Diameter at base:

Diameter at parapet:

Kind of stairway and steps:

Number of landings:

Size of glass:

Number of windows and size of sash:

Number of doors:

Kind of foundation and depth below surface:

Character of soil surrounding the lighthouse:

Soil susceptibility:

Misc remarks:

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Yaquina Head Light Station - 1881

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good

circular

81'

151'

dark

white

painted

detached

Seacoast

brick

Tower located on extreme W'ly point of cape, within 20' of edge of a perpendicular rocky cliff 70' above sea level. Keeper's dwelling is located 70' E of tower, at which point cape is only 250' wide, with perpendicular cliffs of rock on either side.

20"

28'

16'

iron

10 x 12"

4 windows, size of sash 6' 6" x 2' 3"

Concrete. 7' below surface.

Dark clayey loam

Grass grows well. Winds are too violent for shrubbery or trees.

Wind at times sweeps across point of cape with great violence taking gravel stones from the cliffs 100' distant & hurling them against the dwelling with such force as to break the glass in the windows.

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