Owls Head
Owls Head is a town in Knox County, Maine, United States. The population was 1,504 at the 2020 census. A resort and fishing area, the community is home to the Knox County Regional Airport. It includes the village of Ash Point.Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
- Type: Village with 1,610 residents
- Description: human settlement in Knox County, Maine, United States of America
- Also known as: “Owl’s Head”, “Owls Head, Maine”, “Owls Head, ME”, and “Owlshead”
- Postal code: 04854
Places of Interest
Highlights include Owls Head Light Station and Rockland Breakwater Light.
Owls Head Light Station
Lighthouse
Photo: JT de Fife, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Owls Head Light is an active aid to navigation located at the entrance of Rockland Harbor on western Penobscot Bay in the town of Owls Head, Knox County, Maine.
Rockland Breakwater Light
Lighthouse
Photo: Aude, CC BY-SA 2.5.
Rockland Harbor Breakwater Light is a historic lighthouse complex at the end of the Rockland Breakwater in the harbor of Rockland, Maine. Replacing a light station at Jameson Point, the light was established in 1902, about two years after completion of the breakwater.
Owls Head
- Categories: town in the United States and locality
- Location: Town of Owls Head, Knox County, Mid Coast, Maine, New England, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
44.0823° or 44° 4′ 56″ northLongitude
-69.0571° or 69° 3′ 26″ westPopulation
1,610Elevation
75 feet (23 metres)Open location code
87PG3WJV+W5OpenStreetMap ID
node 158813697OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
4974489Wikidata ID
Q3449454
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Owls Head” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “أولس هيد”
- Basque: “Owls Head”
- Catalan: “Owls Head”
- Cebuano: “Owls Head”
- Chechen: “Оулс-Гед”
- Chinese: “奧爾斯黑德”
- Dutch: “Owls Head”
- Egyptian Arabic: “اولس هيد”
- French: “Owls Head”
- German: “Owls Head”
- Haitian: “Owls Head, Maine”
- Haitian: “Owls Head”
- Hungarian: “Owls Head”
- Italian: “Owls Head”
- Kazakh: “Owls Xïd”
- Kazakh: “Оулс Хид”
- Kazakh: “وۋلس حىيد”
- Kirghiz: “Оулс Хид”
- Mazanderani: “اولز هد”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Owls Head”
- Norwegian: “Owls Head”
- Polish: “Owls Head”
- Spanish: “Owls Head”
- Tatar: “Оулс-Гед”
- Turkish: “Owls Head”
- Ukrainian: “Оулс-Гед”
- Volapük: “Owls Head”
- Welsh: “Owls Head, Maine”
- Welsh: “Owls Head”
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