Southwest Point
Southwest Point is a cape in Newport County, Rhode Island. Southwest Point is situated nearby to the neighborhood Homestead, as well as near Bristol Ferry.Places of Interest
Highlights include Hog Island Shoal Lighthouse and Bristol Ferry Light.
Hog Island Shoal Lighthouse
Lighthouse
Photo: Kzirkel, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Hog Island Shoal Light, built in 1901, is a sparkplug lighthouse on a shoal off of Hog Island, Rhode Island. It is located about 600 feet southeast of the island, at the entrance to Mount Hope Bay.
Bristol Ferry Light
Lighthouse
Photo: Swampyank, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Bristol Ferry Light is a historic lighthouse in Bristol, Rhode Island. It is located on the shores of Narragansett Bay at Bristol Point, the northern land point of Mount Hope Bay at the base of the Mount Hope Bridge.
Musselbed Shoals Light
Lighthouse
The Musselbed Shoals Light was a lighthouse which once stood in Narragansett Bay at the west entrance to Mount Hope Bay, south of Bristol Point. As with many Rhode Island lights, it was a casualty of the New England Hurricane of 1938.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Bristol and Portsmouth.
Bristol
Photo: Kzirkel, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Bristol is a quintessential New England waterfront town. Part of the East Bay communities along with Warren and Barrington, it is on a peninsula in Rhode Island surrounded by Narragensett and Mount Hope Bays.
Portsmouth
Melville
Neighborhood
Photo: Faolin42, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Melville is a census-designated place in the towns of Middletown and Portsmouth in Newport County, Rhode Island, United States. It lies along the shore of Narragansett Bay.
Southwest Point
- Type: Cape
- Also known as: “S.W. Point”
- Category: landform
- Location: Newport County, Rhode Island, New England, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
41.6374° or 41° 38′ 15″ northLongitude
-71.28537° or 71° 17′ 7″ westElevation
3 feet (1 metre)Open location code
87HCJPP7+XVOpenStreetMap ID
node 7516188734OpenStreetMap feature
natural=capeGeoNames ID
5225040
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