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Crescent City Rear Range Light
Crescent City · Del Norte County · North Coast
Crescent City Rear Range Light is an active lighthouse on the North coast of California, owned by U.S. Coast Guard.
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Listed in some secondary sources as a separate active range light for Crescent City Harbor, but absent from the U.S. Coast Guard Historian's Office records and the NPS Inventory of Historic Light Stations. The USCG Light List does not include a separate rear range light for Crescent City.
Why it matters
Included as an open research question. The entry exists so a corrected record has somewhere to land. May be a data artifact, or may be a small unlisted navigational aid distinct from Battery Point Lighthouse. We would rather publish an unresolved entry than quietly omit a station that might exist.
The visit
No confirmed public access. If you have firsthand knowledge of this light's current status, contact the Del Norte County Historical Society — they steward Battery Point Lighthouse a short walk away and would know.
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St. George Reef Lighthouse
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Research confidence: low · Last verified 2026-05-13