Orient Point Lighthouse

Orient Point Light is a sparkplug lighthouse off Orient Point, New York in Plum Gut of Long Island Sound – the deep and narrow gap between Orient Point and Plum Island.

Type: Lighthouse
Description: lighthouse in New York, United States
Also known as: “Orient Point Light” and “Orient Point Light Station”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Plum Island Lighthouse and Cross Sound Ferry.

Plum Island Lighthouse

Lighthouse

Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.

Plum Island Light is located on the western end of Plum Island, which lies in the Long Island Sound, east of Orient Point at the end of the North Fork of Long Island, New York. Plum Island Lighthouse is situated 1 mile northeast of Orient Point Lighthouse.

Cross Sound Ferry

Station

Photo: Mike Peel, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Cross Sound Ferry is a passenger and road vehicle ferry service operating across the Long Island Sound between New London, Connecticut, on the mainland and Orient, New York, on Long Island. Cross Sound Ferry is situated 1 mile southwest of Orient Point Lighthouse.

Plum Island Animal Disease Center

Military installation

Plum Island Animal Disease Center is a defunct United States research facility dedicated to the study of foreign animal diseases of livestock located off the eastern tip of Long Island, New York. Plum Island Animal Disease Center is situated 1½ miles northeast of Orient Point Lighthouse.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Orient.

Orient

Village

Photo: David Shankbone, CC BY 2.5.

Orient is a hamlet and census-designated place in Suffolk County, Long Island, New York, United States. As of the 2020 census, Orient had a population of 999. Orient is situated 4½ miles west of Orient Point Lighthouse.

Orient Point Lighthouse

Categories: heritage site, building, historic site, tourist attraction, and tourism
Location: Southold, Suffolk County, New York, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
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Latitude

41.16347° or 41° 9′ 49″ north

Longitude

-72.22362° or 72° 13′ 25″ west

Inception

1899

Height

46 feet (14 metres)

Open location code

87H95Q7G+9H

OpenStreetMap ID

way 610341960

OpenStreetMap feature

building=lighthouse

OpenStreetMap feature

historic=heritage

OpenStreetMap feature

man_made=lighthouse

GeoNames ID

5129982

Wikidata ID

Q7102309

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Satellite Map

Discover Orient Point Lighthouse from above in high-definition satellite imagery.

In Other Languages

From French to Russian—“Orient Point Lighthouse” goes by many names.

French: “phare d’Orient Point”
French: “Phare d’Orient Point”
Russian: “Маяк Ориент-Пойнт”

Localities in the Area

Explore places such as Orient Point and East Marion.

Nearby Places

Explore places such as Cross Sound Deli and Orient Village.

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