Phinney Rock

Phinney Rock is an island in Bristol, Massachusetts. Phinney Rock is situated nearby to the hamlet Nonquitt, as well as near Shore Acres.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Dumpling Rocks Light and Black Rock.

Dumpling Rocks Light

Lighthouse

Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.

Dumpling Rocks Light is a light on a skeleton tower on Dumpling Rock, Buzzards Bay, Massachusetts. It replaced the wooden Dumpling Rock Light, built 1889, which had replaced the original stone lighthouse established in 1829.

Black Rock

Island

Black Rock is a barren, uninhabited island in Bristol County, Massachusetts. It has a beacon structure.

Angelica Rock

Island

Angelica Rock, also known as Angelica Island, is a one-acre rock island emerging from Buzzards Bay, within the town limits of Fairhaven, Massachusetts.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Bliss Corner and Fairhaven.

Bliss Corner

Hamlet

Photo: Faolin42, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Bliss Corner is a census-designated place in the town of Dartmouth in Bristol County, Massachusetts, United States. As of the 2020 census, Bliss Corner had a population of 5,480. Bliss Corner is situated 5 miles northwest of Phinney Rock.

Fairhaven

Photo: Schlitzer90, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Fairhaven is a town in Bristol County, Massachusetts, United States. It is located on the South Coast of Massachusetts where the Acushnet River flows into Buzzards Bay, an arm of the Atlantic Ocean.

Phinney Rock

Type: Island
Description: island in Bristol County, Massachusetts, United States
Categories: locality and landform
Location: Bristol, Massachusetts, New England, United States, North America
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Latitude

41.55177° or 41° 33′ 6″ north

Longitude

-70.88531° or 70° 53′ 7″ west

Open location code

87HFH427+PV

OpenStreetMap ID

node 358273998

OpenStreetMap feature

place=island

GeoNames ID

4947135

Wikidata ID

Q49669047

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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Cebuano to Turkish—“Phinney Rock” goes by many names.

Cebuano: “Phinney Rock”
Turkish: “Phinney Rock”

Localities in the Area

Explore places such as Nonquitt and Shore Acres.

Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Church Rock and Decatur Rock.

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