Thornton Point
Thornton Point is a cape in Wayne, New York. Thornton Point is situated nearby to the hamlet Sunset View, as well as near Lake Bluff.Places of Interest
Highlights include Sodus Point Light.
Sodus Point Light
Lighthouse
Photo: Doug Kerr, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Sodus Point Light is a historic lighthouse located in the village of Sodus Point in Wayne County, New York, marking the eastern entrance to Sodus Bay on Lake Ontario. Sodus Point Light is situated 1½ miles northwest of Thornton Point.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Sodus Point and Alton.
Sodus Point
Photo: Andre Carrotflower, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Sodus Point is a village of 860 people in the Finger Lakes Apple Country region of New York. It is a lakeside community surrounded on three sides by water, and part of the Rochester metropolitan area. The village is on Sodus Bay, an arm of Lake Ontario.
Alton
Hamlet
Alton is a hamlet in the Town of Sodus in Wayne County, New York, United States. Located at an inland crossroads approximately 6 miles southeast of the Village of Sodus, the community developed in the early nineteenth century as agricultural settlement expanded into the interior of western New York following the Revolutionary War. Alton is situated 3 miles south of Thornton Point.
Wallington
Village
Wallington is a hamlet in the Town of Sodus, Wayne County, New York, United States. It is located along Ridge Road approximately 3 miles southeast of the Village of Sodus and 6 miles south-southwest of Sodus Point. Wallington is situated 3 miles southwest of Thornton Point.
Thornton Point
- Type: Cape
- Category: landform
- Location: Wayne, New York, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
43.25229° or 43° 15′ 8″ northLongitude
-76.97191° or 76° 58′ 19″ westElevation
269 feet (82 metres)Open location code
87M5722H+W6GeoNames ID
5140892
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