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RG 26 RECORDS OF THE UNITED STATES COAST GUARD
Records of the Lighthouse Service
Records Relating to Operations
DESCRIPTIVE LISTS OF LIGHTHOUSE STATIONS, 1858-89, 1876-1939
13th District (Book 1)
Box 4
NC-31 Entry 63
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No.36 Thirteenth District
DESCRIPTION OF LIGHT-HOUSE TOWER, BUILDINGS, AND PREMISES At Yaquina Head Oregon July 1881
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NOTE This form is designed mainly to guide in preparing accurate descriptions of new light-stations, but will be used also in describing those that have been long established, when required. Those blanks which cannot be filled by the officer preparing the description should be left blank, to be filled at the Lighthouse from data on file. Screw-pile structures and lights on keepers’ swellings should be fully described without reference to this form.
TREASURY DEPARTMENT, OFFICE L.H. BOARD, Sept, 1871
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1 NAME AND POSITION OF THE LIGHT-HOUSE AND LIGHT-STATION. Cape Foulweather, on the westerly end of Cape Foulweather (Yaquina Head) Oregon
By whom described. G.L. Gillespie Major of Engineers Light-House Engineer 13th District
Date of description, July 1881
Distinguishing Character of light or lights. Fixed White Latitude of tower. 44.43. (30) Authority Light-House Longitude of tower, 124.05. (00) List of 1881
PREMISES- A DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF, EMBRACING—
Area of the entire site. 30 acres 17.86
Character of surface soil. Dark Clayey loam
Distance of tower from nearest high-water mark. Two hundred and fifty feet.
Enclosure to premises. The entire site is enclosed by a fence running across the point of the cape from the South to the North shore. The keepers dwelling is enclosed by a neat picket fence.
Wharf or Landing on premises. No wharf or landing on premises. A landing can be made with a boat, on the beach in smooth weather, but is usually dangerous.
Road to landing or wharf, character of, and distance from tower. One fourth of a mile. No road, trail leads down the steep bluff to the beach.
Means by which the light-station may be reached. By railroad to “Corvallis”, eighty miles, thence by stage to Newport sixty (60) miles to the Light House.
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Distance to the nearest public road, railroad station, or steamboat landing, and to which. The distance to the nearest public road, at Newport in Yaquina Bay, is five miles.
Tower or other means used for supporting the lantern and apparatus. Tower
Number of separate lights. One
When first built or established. 1870
When last thoroughly rebuilt, repaired, or renovated. Slight repairs made in 1880
Condition at this date. Good
Shape of tower in plan. Circular
Height of tower from base to focal plane of lantern. Eighty one (81) feet
Height of focal plane of lantern above the mean sea or lake level. one hundred and fifty one (151) feet
Back ground of the light-house, upon which it is projected, as seen from the sea or lake. Dark
Color of tower. White
Color of tower, how produced. Painted
Tower—connected with keepers’ dwelling, and how, or detached. Detached
Object: sea-coast, lake-coast, bay, harbor, channel, or range; for general or local navigating purposes. Sea Coast
Materials of which the tower is built. Brick
General description, embracing— Thickness of walls at base. Three (3) feet Thickness of walls at parapet. Twenty (20) feet Diameter of tower at base. Twenty eight (28) feet Diameter of tower at parapet. Sixteen (16) feet