Chandeleur Island (Louisiana)

Historical Light List Characteristics

1849 F W. W14. USLHE Light List (US): 228
1858 F W. W13. LHB Light List (US): 343
1860 LHB Light List (US): 328
1865 LHB Light List (All Coasts): 334
1866 LHB Light List (All Coasts): 338
1868 LHB Light List (All Coasts): 340
1870 F W. W12. LHB Light List (All Coasts): 337
1878 F W. W13. LHB Light List (All Coasts): 427
1879 LHB Light List (All Coasts): 441
1886 LHB Light List (All Coasts): 566
1888 LHB Light List (All Coasts): 600
1893 F W. W123/4. LHB Light List (Atlantic): 806
1898 F W. W153/4. LHB Light List (Atlantic): 964
1899 LHB Light List (Atlantic): 979
1905 LHB Light List (Atlantic): 1192
1908 Fl R 10s. R153/4. LHB Light List (Atlantic): 1313
1915 Fl R 10s. R16. fl 0.5. USLHS Light List (Atlantic): 1838
1917 USLHS Light List (Atlantic): 1972
1920 USLHS Light List (Atlantic): 2058
1927 USLHS Light List (Atlantic): 2276
1931 USLHS Light List (Atlantic): 2525
1935 Fl W 10s. W16. fl 0.5. USLHS Light List (Atlantic): 3297
1943 USCG Light List (Atlantic): 3566
1945-1947
1950-1952
1953-1955 USCG Light List - Vol. I-VI: 5447
1957
1959-1960 USCG Light List - Vol. I-V: 6426
1961 USCG Light List - Vol. II: 6426
1963
1965
1966 Fl W 10s. W16. fl 1.
1969-1970 USCG Light List - Vol. II: 160
1972
1973-1974 Fl W 10s. W10. fl 1.
1976
1978 Fl W 6s. W9.
1982
1990 USCG Light List - Vol. IV: 290
2004 USCG Light List - Vol. IV: 350

Historical Light List Optics and Structures

1849 9 Lamps / 14" Refl. 55 N/A N/A USLHE Light List (US): 228
1858 4th 50 50 LHB Light List (US): 343
1860 LHB Light List (US): 328
1865 LHB Light List (All Coasts): 334
1866 LHB Light List (All Coasts): 338
1868 LHB Light List (All Coasts): 340
1870 LHB Light List (All Coasts): 337
1878 56 58 A brick tower; keeper's dwelling on screw piles, 70 yards west of tower. LHB Light List (All Coasts): 427
1879 LHB Light List (All Coasts): 441
1886 Tower, white; lantern, black; dwelling on screw-piles, 70 yards to westward. LHB Light List (All Coasts): 566
1888 LHB Light List (All Coasts): 600
1893 551/2 Tower, white; lantern, black; two square white dwelling on iron piles, to westward of tower. LHB Light List (Atlantic): 806
1898 3rd 99 Two square white dwellings with pyramidal roofs, on iron piles, one 30 feet southwesterly and the other 30 feet northwesterly from the tower. Square, pyramidal, skeleton, iron tower, brown below the gallery and black above. Brick oil house. LHB Light List (Atlantic): 964
1899 LHB Light List (Atlantic): 979
1905 Square, pyramidal, skeleton, iron tower, brown below the gallery and black above. Two square white dwellings with pyramidal roofs, on iron piles, one 30 feet southwesterly and the other 30 feet northwesterly from the tower; brick oilhouse. LHB Light List (Atlantic): 1192
1908 31/2 Square, pyramidal, skeleton, iron tower, brown below the gallery and black above; two square white, square dwellings with pyramidal roofs, on iron piles, one 30 feet SW'ly and the other 30 feet NW'ly from the tower; brick oilhouse. LHB Light List (Atlantic): 1313
1915 N/A 61 Square, pyramidal, skeleton; brown below gallery, black above. USLHS Light List (Atlantic): 1838
1917 USLHS Light List (Atlantic): 1972
1920 USLHS Light List (Atlantic): 2058
1927 USLHS Light List (Atlantic): 2276
1931 31/2 o USLHS Light List (Atlantic): 2525
1935 Square, pyramidal, skeleton tower; brown below gallery, black above. USLHS Light List (Atlantic): 3297
1943 5 o USCG Light List (Atlantic): 3566
1945 31/2 o
1946-1947 31/2 iov
1950-1952 375 mm e
1953 N/A Square pyramidal skeleton tower; brown below gallery, black above. USCG Light List - Vol. I-VI: 5447
1954-1955 107
1957
1959-1960 USCG Light List - Vol. I-V: 6426
1961 USCG Light List - Vol. II: 6426
1963
1965-1966
1969-1970 Skeleton tower; brown below gallery, black above. USCG Light List - Vol. II: 160
1972-1974 N/A
1976
1978
1982
1990 USCG Light List - Vol. IV: 290
2004 65 NB on a skeleton tower. USCG Light List - Vol. IV: 350
1848 - 2005 (Assumed that the lighthouses predating the 1896 lighthouse destroyed by Hurrican Katrina were reasonably close to that lighthouse.)