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Tier 3

Roe Island Light (demolished)

Roe Island Light Station

Pittsburg · Contra Costa County · Bay Area

An archive-only entry. Useful as the cleanest example of a California lighthouse being erased by another federal use of the same waterway, and as a footnote in the broader Bay-and-Delta navigational story.

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Visit essentials

Access

N/A (demolished)

Accessibility

Demolished. No structure remains.

The light

Year first lit

1891

Current structure built

1891

Optic

Demolished

Stewardship & location

Coordinates

38.0450, -121.9300 Map

The story

Built 1891 on Roe Island in Suisun Bay. The island and lighthouse were both demolished when the Suisun Bay Reserve Fleet — the 'mothball fleet' of decommissioned Navy ships — was established nearby. No structure remains. Records are sparse.

The visit

Nothing to visit. Site documented in U.S. Coast Guard archives and a small number of period photographs.

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Pittsburg or Antioch

Nearby lighthouses

Carquinez Strait Light

Crockett, Bay Area

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Closes the loop on the small cluster of inland-bay screw-pile lights that supported Bay-to-Delta navigation in the late 19th and early 20th centuries — Mare Island, Southampton Shoal, Roe Island, and Carquinez Strait.

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Sources

Image rights: Historic images may exist at USCG Historian or Library of Congress.

Research confidence: medium · Last verified 2026-05-13