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Umpqua River
State: OR
Year established: 1857
Latitude: 43 deg 39
min 42 sec N
Longitude: 124 deg 12
min 0 sec W
Height above sea level: 165 feet Original construction:
brick tower on north spit of Umpqua River Rebuilds:
 1894: current 61-foot conical masonry lighthouse built on 100 foot ridge after original was undermined by river flow in 1861
Status:
automated in 1966, active aid to navigation
Light characteristic:
alternating 2 white flashes and 1 red flash every 15 seconds, the white visible for 21 nautical miles, the red visible for 20 nautical miles
More information:
http://www.nwcoast.com/lighthouses/oregon/umpquariver.asp
http://www.cr.nps.gov/maritime/light/umpqua.htm
U.S. Department of Homeland Security / United States Coast Guard, Light List, Volume 6 Pacific Coast and Pacific Islands, Pacific Coast and Outlying Pacific Islands, (Washington, DC: GPO, 2004), p. 8
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