Baker Shoal Range Rear Light
Baker Shoal Range Rear Lighthouse is a lighthouse in Delaware, United States, on the Delaware River, near Port Penn.Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Ashton Historic District and Reedy Island.
Ashton Historic District
Protected area
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Ashton Historic District is a national historic district located near Port Penn, New Castle County, Delaware, United States. It encompasses six contributing buildings associated with an original settler and his immediate descendants on early land grant in St. Ashton Historic District is situated 1 mile southwest of Baker Shoal Range Rear Light.
Reedy Island
Islet
Reedy Island is a small island in the middle of the channel of the Delaware River near its mouth on the Delaware Bay in the U.S. state of Delaware. It is about one mile east of Port Penn, Delaware and five miles southwest of Salem, New Jersey. Reedy Island is situated 2 miles south of Baker Shoal Range Rear Light.
Port Penn Historic District
Protected area
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Port Penn Historic District is a national historic district located at Port Penn, New Castle County, Delaware. It encompasses 48 contributing buildings and 5 contributing sites in the original eight block town plan and one block 19th century extension of Port Penn. Port Penn Historic District is situated 2 miles south of Baker Shoal Range Rear Light.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Port Penn and Delaware City.
Port Penn
Hamlet
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Port Penn is a census-designated place located in St. Georges Hundred, southern New Castle County, Delaware, United States, below the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal on the west bank of the Delaware River. Port Penn is situated 1½ miles south of Baker Shoal Range Rear Light.
Delaware City
Village
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Delaware City is a city in New Castle County, Delaware, United States. The population was 1,885 as of 2020. It is a small port town on the eastern terminus of the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal and is the location of the Forts Ferry Crossing to Fort Delaware on Pea Patch Island. Delaware City is situated 2½ miles north of Baker Shoal Range Rear Light.
Oakwood Beach
Hamlet
Elsinboro Township is a township in Salem County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. As of the 2020 United States census, the township's population was 1,001, a decrease of 35 from the 2010 census count of 1,036, which in turn reflected a decline of 56 from the 1,092 counted in the 2000 census. Oakwood Beach is situated 3 miles east of Baker Shoal Range Rear Light.
Baker Shoal Range Rear Light
- Type: Lighthouse
- Description: lighthouse built 1896 in Delaware, United States
- Categories: tourist attraction and tourism
- Location: New Castle County, Delaware, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
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Latitude
39.54089° or 39° 32′ 27″ northLongitude
-75.56996° or 75° 34′ 12″ westOpen location code
87F6GCRJ+92OpenStreetMap ID
node 6525319469OpenStreetMap feature
man_made=lighthouseWikidata ID
Q4849207
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In Other Languages
“Baker Shoal Range Rear Light” goes by many names.
- French: “phare arrière de Baker Shoal”
- French: “Phare arrière de Baker Shoal”
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