Sakonnet
Sakonnet is a neighborhood in Town of Little Compton, Newport County, Rhode Island. Sakonnet is situated nearby to the neighborhood Bahia Corner.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Neighborhood
- Description: neighborhood in Newport County, Rhode Island, United States
- Also known as: “Saconnet”, “Sakonet”, “Sakonnet, Rhode Island”, “Sakonnet, RI”, and “Seaconnett”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Sakonnet Light and West Island.
Sakonnet Light
Lighthouse
Photo: Zhengan, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Sakonnet Light, built in 1884, is a sparkplug lighthouse near Sakonnet Point, Little Compton, Rhode Island, on the eastern side of the state. The light was deactivated in 1954 after Hurricane Carol and was going to be destroyed, but local citizens protested, and eventually Carl and Carolyn Haffenreffer bought the lighthouse in 1961.
West Island
Island
West Island is a 9.6 acre uninhabited island located approximately 0.25 miles off the coast of Sakonnet Point and roughly 900 feet east of the Sakonnet Point Lighthouse in Little Compton, Rhode Island, United States.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Little Compton and Acoaxet.
Little Compton
Photo: Zhengan, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Little Compton is a rural farming town in Newport County in southeastern Rhode Island. It includes the villages of Adamsville and Sakonnet. It is between the Sakonnet River on its west and Massachusetts and the West Branch of the Westport River to the east.
Acoaxet
Hamlet
Photo: Faolin42, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Acoaxet is a hamlet, which is situated 6 miles northeast of Sakonnet.
Sakonnet
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Town of Little Compton, Newport County, Rhode Island, New England, United States, North America
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Latitude
41.4626° or 41° 27′ 45″ northLongitude
-71.19449° or 71° 11′ 40″ westElevation
3 feet (1 metre)Open location code
87HCFR74+26OpenStreetMap ID
node 158814937OpenStreetMap feature
place=neighbourhoodGeoNames ID
5224688Wikidata ID
Q122572011
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In Other Languages
“Sakonnet” goes by many names.
- Japanese: “サコネット”
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