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Photograph of Fourteen Foot Bank Light
Photograph by National Park Service, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Fourteen Foot Bank Light

Built in 1886. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.

From the record

“Fourteen Foot Bank Light is a lighthouse in the Delaware Bay near Bowers Beach, Delaware. Built in 1885-1886 at the south end of Joe Flogger Shoal, it was the first lighthouse to be built using a pneumatic caisson.”

Wikipedia article Fourteen Foot Bank Light, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 136 National Register listings published here for Kent County · listed in 1989 · category: Structure · built in 1886.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. On Fourteen Foot Bank in Delaware Bay, 12 mi. E of Bowers, Bowers
  • When was it listed? March 1989
  • Category. structure
  • Census division. Milford North
  • When was it built? 1886
  • National Register reference number. 89000286 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Map coverage status

No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 89000286 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Kent CountyAll 136 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

  • Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
  • Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
  • How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.