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This is a list of all lighthouses in the U.S. state of Virginia as identified by the United States Coast Guard.There are nine active lights in the state as well as three automated caissons and eleven skeleton towers replacing previously staffed lights.
This is a list of lighthouses in the United States. The United States has had approximately a thousand lights as well as light towers, range lights, and pier head lights. Michigan has the most lights of any state with over 150 past and present lights. Lighthouses that are in former U.S. territories are not listed here.
Articles about lighthouses in the U.S. state of Virginia. For a manually maintained list, complete with yet-to-be-written articles, see Lighthouses in the United States . Subcategories
Smith Point Light is a caisson lighthouse in the Virginia portion of the Chesapeake Bay at the mouth of the Potomac River. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2002. History
New Point Comfort Light is a lighthouse in the Virginia portion of the Chesapeake Bay, United States, off the tip of the Middle Peninsula. Finished in 1804, [ 3 ] it is the third-oldest surviving light in the bay, and the tenth-oldest in the United States.
Thimble Shoal Light is a sparkplug lighthouse in the Virginia portion of Chesapeake Bay, north of the Hampton Roads channel. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] [ 5 ] The third light at this location, it is listed on the National Register of Historic Places .
"Historic Light Station Information and Photography: Virginia" (PDF). United States Coast Guard Historian's Office. Old Plantation Flats Light, from the Chesapeake Chapter of the United States Lighthouse Society; de Gast, Robert (1973). The Lighthouses of the Chesapeake. Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 170. ISBN 9780801815485.
Assateague Light is the 142-foot-tall (43 m) lighthouse located on the southern end of Assateague Island off the coast of the Virginia Eastern Shore, United States.The lighthouse is located within the Chincoteague National Wildlife Refuge and can be accessed by road from Chincoteague Island over the Assateague Channel.