Talk:List of lighthouses in the United States

message: *Washington, Alaska, Arizonia, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, and most of California should have articles on all lighthouses. Hawaii should have all lighthouse entries. If there is a lighthouse missing from the list, please add it to the state and mention it here so I can make an article on it. --Digon3 15:33, 28 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Completed States

message: The United States Geologic Survey sets official names for places. They call it an island that is ten feet above sea level called Sombrero Key. They have no entry for a Marathon Key, so I am not sure where the National Park Service got that name (which is where the "Sombrero Key Light, Near Marathon Key, Florida" originates). Stating it explains why the light is called Sombrero Key Light, not something Reef Light. Also Marathon, Florida seems to be the nearest town, not Key Vaca. Rmhermen 05:05, 30 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: There is no dry land named Sombrero Key. Sombrero Key is a submerged reef. This Coast Guard site  refers to area as Sombrero Key, Dry Bank and Sombrero Shoal. The name goes back to the Spanish, and it appears that there was an island there when Florida was still Spanish, but by the 19th Century, when the lighthouse was built, the island had eroded away and the area was known as Dry Banks because portions of the reef were exposed at low tide. The Coast Guard has the lighthouse standing in four feet of water. I had removed the reference to Marathon Key because there is no such thing. The City of Marathon occupies Key Vaca and Boot Key. Key Vaca is the closest land to the Sombrero Key lighthouse.  This Coast Guard site  refers to area as Sombrero Key, Dry Bank and Sombrero Shoal. -- Dalbury(Talk) 12:07, 30 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Since the best place to see the lighthouse from is the seven mile bridge in Marathon, I imagine people conflated "Marathon" and "key" and decided Marathon was a key. KillerChihuahua?!? 13:12, 30 December 2005 (UTC)

text: The USGS is sometimes wrong, you know - I lived on a mountain in Ga which they had two miles wrong - we contacted them, they told us they had our area on the schedule to be re-surveyed, in 10 years. It had last been surveyed in the 1950s. That was in a populated area. They don't get out to the reefs often. Some of these places have not been surveyed since the 1930s, and a lot of mistakes have been made. The darn thing is not on a key because there is no key there, there is a reef which the Spaniards called Sombrero key because at times they could see sand above water. That was in the 1600s, I think. There is no land there, and no key. Lets be accurate, shall we? USFS is not the best source for information on where a reef light is located. KillerChihuahua?!? 13:23, 30 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Re: Sombrero Key

message: I don't think the information is correct on the cockspur lighthouse.  It is in Chatham County Georgia and I drive by it every day.  I don't know much about it but I could provide the few details I can roust.  Any opposers?  JohnCub 21:03, 25 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Well now that I reread what I wrote it's not that the info isn't correct, there just isn't any there.  I'll dig up what I can and start a page. JohnCub 21:06, 25 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Georgia Cockspur Lighthouse

message: I've been working on my first real wiki article, Cockspur Island Lighthouse and would love some input, comments, suggestions, critiques, what have you.  I tried to mimic a lot of what I saw on other lighthouse pages but the truth is I know almost nothing about lighthouses.  I just happened to have one near me that needed wiki'd.  If all goes well I'll be working on the Tybee Island Lighthouse soon. JohnCub 00:00, 29 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I'd say you've got a decent article there.  has some additional historical information you could incorporate, and a nice public domain (US government product) photo of the lighthouse.  doesn't look like it has anything you haven't already found, but does have another (older) public domain photo. In any case, web sites used as references are easy for other editors to check. I like to use both internet and printed references when I can find them. Both sites have information on other Georgia lighthouses, as well. -- Dalbury(Talk) 00:23, 29 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I appreciate the info and criticism, I'll get on doing some of that as soon as these old bones get over the chill of traversing the Atlantic without a boat.  :P  Hoping to get a definite source on the newspaper article I have (I have the article, it is just not dated or stated that it is from the local paper.  Will follow up on that this week.)  JohnCub 23:08, 29 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Newbie help anyone?

message: I'm thinking of merging the List of tallest lighthouses in the United States to this page - it's a tiny page and it makes sense to me to expand this page rather than keep that one around.  I'd like to add a section to this page for Interesting Facts about US Lighthouses or something, incorporate the list of tallest, and also include the faqs found here: .
If I do this, I think I should move the list of states under a Lighthouses by State level 2 heading to make the contents more navigable.
Sound good? RainbowCrane 03:12, 6 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: As List of tallest lighthouses in the United States has only three items, I would prefer to just mention them in a short paragraph at the top of this article. I'm wary of an Interesting facts list, as those kind of things tend to become useless trivia lists. There is a Notable Lighthouses section in the Lighthouse article. I think it would be better to handle what you want to do in that manner (i.e., in one or more paragraphs) rather than as a list or series of lists. In fact, I think it would be appropriate to have a brief summary in this article of areas such as the history of lighthouses in the United States, with links to articles like the United States Lighthouse Board and United States Lighthouse Service, to give some context. -- Donald Albury(Talk) 11:44, 6 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: New section for Interesting Facts

message: Per the Manual of Style on links, an article may be considered overlinked if ... more than 10% of the links are to articles that don't exist. Unless someone can convince me otherwise, I intend to start unlinking non-existent articles in this list. -- Donald Albury(Talk) 11:29, 10 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: That is not an appropriate criteria for a list. Any list item which should have an article (and generally any link which should have an article) should be linked. This is what makes lists different than categories - there ability to include as-yet-unwritten articles and, therefore, be complete. Rmhermen 14:20, 10 August 2006 (UTC)

text: I don't know much about the list criteria, but if any delinking goes on, please hold off on Oregon--they are only four and I can whip up stubs on them tonight. Katr67 14:30, 10 August 2006 (UTC)

text: I agree.  This article is a case where the red links point to articles that would be valuable to create.  The red links also prompt people reading this article to create stubs when they hit a red link for a lighthouse they're interested in. RainbowCrane 14:34, 10 August 2006 (UTC)

text: OK, that's why I posted here first. One problem with red-links is that the red-link may not be the title the article gets created under. There have been a couple of debates about what form lighthouse article names should take in the nine months I've been active, with large numbers of article names being changed (moving existing articles and modifying red-linked titles) more than once. Whether a non-existant article is red-linked or not linked, it is still obvious that it does not exist. I will admit that the lighthouse list is one of the better examples of a list, not least because it can be verifiably completed. I also posted my proposal before I saw the lighthouse project tag. If an active project is overseeing this list, I'm less concerned about maintenance problems. Alright, I'm withdrawing my notice of intent. I have enough other things to do, anyway. -- Donald Albury(Talk) 16:25, 10 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: That's why I've been modifying the redlinks slowly to the names they should be at which in the US is "XX Light". I've just got Florida and one other big state left and they should all be where they belong. I just haven't had time to move articles involved w/ Florida so if anyone wants to help and move Florida lights to their correct XX Light name I'd appreciate the hand. Gateman1997 16:28, 10 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Since many of the Florida lighthouse articles were moved at least once before, you will need to get the redirects deleted before you can move the articles back. I might add that I originally created several of the articles with Light in the name, only to see them moved to lighthouse. -- Donald Albury(Talk) 23:34, 10 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: All of the moves you mention would have happened when KillerChiuaha made his ill advised move to lighthouse from Light and Lighthouse. He's since changed his opinion on the matter. Gateman1997 01:52, 11 August 2006 (UTC)

text: Actually Michigan has more lights and more red links. Rmhermen 21:07, 25 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  Is it a complete list? --Digon3 02:48, 26 August 2006 (UTC)

text: As of 10/06/06, 8 states have complete lists and no red links (except for locations)--Digon3 18:01, 6 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Excessive red links

message: I have reverted the removal of the Statue of Liberty from NY lighthouses.  See http://www.lighthousefriends.com/pull-state.asp?state=NY&Submit=Go , http://www.lighthousemuseum.org/harbor.htm , http://www.unc.edu/~rowlett/lighthouse/ny.htm which all include them in a list of NY lighthouses.  Apparently it was maintained by the US Lighthouse service in the later part of the nineteenth century and had a lighthouse keeper and a light that could be seen for 24 miles. --- Skapur 17:10, 8 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Good catch.Gateman1997 16:34, 22 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Statue of Liberty ''is'' a Lighthouse

message: Can some please start these, I am having trouble starting articles on them:
*Angel Island Light
*Point Knox Light 
*Port Hartford
Santa Cruz was destroyed and Mark Abbott Memorial Light was built in its place in memorial for a surfer who died.
*Mark Abbott Memorial Light
*Santa Cruz Harbour Light
 
I have started the rest in CA, Thanks--Digon3 16:13, 22 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Help

message: I added the Florida Lights with the information from the Inventory of Historic Light Stations. Is it too much information for the list, badly formatted, just ugly? Looking for feedback, before I do any other states. Rmhermen 17:52, Oct 30, 2004 (UTC)
*Do you mean the infobox? If you do then it looks good, but try to keep short statments only. --Digon3 15:34, 22 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Florida Lights

message: Lots of lighthouses make that claim (Google it).  How could this be verified? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 24.235.78.109 (talk) 15:11, 12 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I have fixed this on Portland Head Light..  While the claim is impossible to verify, it probably is noteworthy inside the article if a lot of people 'claim' it to be true.--Dk69 15:01, 28 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Needed: citation for "The most photographed lighthouse in the world"

message: It seems to me that it would make sense to sort according to active/inactive/demolished, seeing as how in Maryland (for instance) probably half fall into the last group and less than a quarter fall into the first. Mangoe 16:52, 5 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Another sorting point

message: Could someone explain why the list in the article and the USCG list are almost entirely disjoint? Mangoe (talk) 19:02, 20 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Looks like no one has updated this article.  Be bold.  —EncMstr 20:01, 20 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: If I had some clue about the discrepancy I would, but seeing as how there's only one light that's on both lists, I would rather someone who had some actual knowledge look at it. Mangoe (talk) 03:40, 21 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: The list is wholly inadequate if that's all there is.  See Rowlett, Russ, Lighthouse Directory, Pennsylvania Lighthouses University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.  7&6=thirteen (talk) 19:31, 24 December 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Pennsylvania list

message: List of lighthouses and interactive map for entire U.S.A.  Check it out.  7&6=thirteen (talk) 19:56, 22 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: A good source on U.S. lighthouses and part of the rest of the world

message: Per the logic in the above discussion that we should unilaterally name all lightships, light beacons and lighthouses in the United States to "lights" totally ignoring local usage.  Then this article should be renamed "Lights in the United States." Americasroof (talk) 12:05, 13 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Rename this article to Lights in the United States

message: As suggested above, here are the results of Google searches for possible names for the Montauk Point facility, first for the groups of search terms and then for the phrases in quotes.
* montauk point lighthouse - 387,000
* montauk point light = 59,800
* "Montauk Point Lighthouse" - 17,200 hits
* "Montauk Point Light" = 3,110 hits
*"Montauk Point Light Station" = 348 hits
Here are a few results from searches of the news archive.
* "Montauk Point Lighthouse" - 144 hits; the first 30 are all from the New York Times and other major papers and from the Federal Register
* "Montauk Point Light" - 36 hits, including many from the New York Times
This is a very clear indication to me that Montauk Point Lighthouse is the most common usage.  Unlike the Point Reyes Lighthouse v. Point Reyes Light test, where the latter name gets many exta hits from the newspaper of that name. Montalk is not even close.
--Hjal (talk) 04:38, 14 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Google tests

message: For some reason, the Elbow of Cross Ledge Light was not copied in from the USCG list. I have also added an entry for the Cross Ledge Light, which for some other reason the USCG doesn't list. Its remains show up on charts, though, and lighthousefriends has a article it. Mangoe (talk) 23:48, 6 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: New lights in New Jersey

message: It is unclear where the list for Hawaii was derived. For now, I have commented out those that are not on the USCG page. I have also altered the spelling to match that page. Mangoe (talk) 02:29, 25 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Hawaii

message: The Coast Guard history site http://www.uscg.mil/history/weblighthouses/LHny.asp shows Romer Shoal in New York, which is probably why it ended up in this list in New York.  However, the National Register of Historic Places puts it in New Jersey, so I checked it out.  NOAA charts don't show state boundaries, so I looked at the USGS topo quad, which does.  The light is in New Jersey by about 500 feet, hence the change here. Since it's a redlink now, it doesn't matter much, but perhaps when it becomes an article, it should be shown in this list in both states? . . . . Jim . . . . Jameslwoodward (talk • contribs)  13:24, 16 September 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I think it should be listed in New Jersey, with a note somewhere that the USCG page incorrectly places it in New York. The Coast Guard data are not infallible; they were mostly compiled by civilian volunteers. Mangoe (talk) 12:38, 25 April 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: moved [[Romer Shoal Light]] from New York to New Jersey

message: There are increasing numbers of entries in the lists for structures that are not and never were and never will be actual navigational aids (e.g. everything listed for Arizona and Nebraska). I'm inclined to either remove these or otherwise segregate them. Mangoe (talk) 19:09, 25 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Mock lighthouses

message: This keeps being removed because it isn't an AtoN (presumably an aid to navigation). But this is not listed as a requirement of this list. The lead doesn't even mention the term, much less restrict the list in any manner. Rmhermen (talk) 02:58, 15 January 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: If it's not an aid to navigation, it's not a lighthouse. Frankly the whole thing needs to be pruned of decorative towers that have nothing to do with navigation. Mangoe (talk) 03:28, 15 January 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Indeed. Per definition, "a lighthouse is a tower, building, or other type of structure ... used as an aid to navigation for maritime pilots at sea or on inland waterways." Buildings that only look like lighthouses but have never been used for navigational purposes should not be listed here. De728631 (talk) 09:53, 15 January 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Governor's Light

message: Now that the only entry has been identified it's clear that it's a decorative light and not even remotely an aid to navigation. Therefore I've removed the state section. Mangoe (talk) 18:10, 26 August 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  West Virginia 

message: I commend User:Knowledgekid87 for beginning to table-ize this list-article.  It's great to bring in photos and years constructed and more information;  this is an obvious improvement.  I wonder if the table format should be refined, though.  Knowledgekid87, can you please comment on alternatives that you might be thinking of, for columns to be included and for colors?  I hope others might make suggestions, also.  
For example, I find the use of reddish color of entire rows, being used to indicate which lighthouses no longer exist, to be overwhelming however.  It seems to elevate the importance of the no-longer-extant lighthouses above all others.  Could the fact be indicated more mildly?  Perhaps light gray shading of just the first cell in the row, for example?  Gray is funeral-like, and for that reason was settled upon by the NRHP Wikiproject to indicate delisted status, i.e. formerly listed status, of properties (which usually had been demolished) in comparable lists of places listed on the National Register of Historic Places.  Shading the entire row seems more than is necessary, too.  
What about having a description or notes column?  The facts of whether or when a lighthouse was demolished could be mentioned there.  
For comparison (though not saying these are perfect):
*List of lighthouses in Puerto Rico uses:
**Columns:  Name / Municipality / Established / Tower height in meters / Focal plane in meters / Current status / Current condition
**No colors so far
*List of lighthouses in Uruguay uses:
**Columns: Date / Image / Name / Number ARLHS / Number Admiralty / Range (nautical miles) / Coord 
**No colors so far
*List of round barns, for its U.S. section, uses: 
**columns:  Building / Image / Location / City, State / Description
**no colors so far.
*National Register of Historic Places listings in Genesee County, Michigan (Michigan is the state with the most lighthouses) is divided by county sections and uses
**columns: Name on the Register / Image / Date listed / Location / City or town / Description
**colors in first column indicate type of listing: regular vs. historic district vs. National Historic Landmark
**Former listings are separated into a small table at bottom and color gray is used, e.g. at split-out National Register of Historic Places listings in Genesee County, Michigan
But unless better specific alternative achieves some support here, I do support Knowledgekid87's proceeding with the tabulation in the current format.  Refinements of the table can easily be done later, and the most difficult work is the initial tabulation.  Keep up the good work! --doncram 17:18, 21 July 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks, the good thing about tables is that info can always be added/removed. I haven't thought of any colors yet long term but would be open to discussion. - Knowledgekid87 (talk) 02:38, 22 July 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: I suggest that the coordinates column be merged into the column of other location information, to eliminate a lot of unnecessary whitespace in the tables, and reduce the number of columns by one.  I am commenting on the format of the current Alabama table.  And I suggest that the height of towers and the height of focal plane be added as two additional columns.  That way this comprehensive list can support and complement the List of tallest lighthouses in the United States (currently a redirect) that will be created by move/rename of List of lighthouses in the United States by height (see Requested move discussion at Talk:List of lighthouses in the United States#Requested move 22 July 2016). --doncram 19:44, 22 July 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  new tables 

message: I was thinking that if the table looks too big afterwards they can always be divided back into states.  I know you were not warm to the idea but please at least give it a chance. The information is all going to be the same as it was before order-wise just in table format that is sortable. - Knowledgekid87 (talk) 13:22, 22 July 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: Now I see what you were saying, I never saw the list articles already made as they were not linked anywhere. So my question would be, why have overlapping lists? Even if I didn't create the tables, I don't see the benefit of having the same info included twice on two different lists in two different forms. - Knowledgekid87 (talk) 13:26, 22 July 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: FWIW, I think grouping by region then by state, with, for example, New England as a region, is good.  In the version before Knowledgekid87 began editing here, there was no link from this list-article to the separate, tabulated List of lighthouses in Connecticut, and perhaps not to some other separate state lists that may exist.  For Florida, there oddly are two overlapping state lists (that were both linked from here), the List of lighthouses in Florida and the List of operating lighthouses in Florida.  The latter should be redirected into the former as all its information is covered in the bigger list.  The info in the bigger list should be checked first, and any discrepancies might be noted at its Talk page for further research.  But no Merger discussion is needed, any editor can just do the redirect/merger.  The Connecticut and Florida sections here should have (before) and should now also just give a very brief summary at most, then link to the split-out Connecticut and Florida articles.  The tables should not appear in here at all, IMHO, whether by templating (less bad because at least there is only one place for updates to be edited) or by copying (bad because besides showing the same data twice it also invites introduction of errors/discrepancies in two versions).  Unless the size of this list, after tabulation is completed, is not too large, then split-out states could be merged back in (but the separate state lists should then be redirects, there should not be 2 copies of all the info).  That's my two cents. :) --doncram 19:14, 22 July 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: I am looking at how long the article is getting, my thought is to split out different articles by region. This will NOT effect the by state FA articles that have been created. What will be left will have to be summed up with prose, the good thing with this is a region gives more details. - Knowledgekid87 (talk) 23:46, 22 July 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Regions versus States 

message: How about broaden this to be List of lighthouses in the United States and Canada, broken out naturally into regional lists by (hydrographic regions?  hydrological regions? ) watersheds:
*Arctic Ocean (may get some Ontario ones on Hudson's Bay, any Yukon Territory ones, etc., plus perhaps some Alaska ones and even perhaps a North Dakota one or two, if there are any on the north-draining Red River There is a Red River lighthouse where it enters Lake Winnipeg in Manitoba, but there is North Dakota lighthouse section at all, at http://www.LighthouseFriends.Com.): Arctic Ocean lighthouses in Canada and the United States? Arctic Ocean lighthouses in North America? List of U.S. and Canada lighthouses on Arctic Ocean watersheds?  
**Maybe this should be divided by Hudson's Bay watershed, which includes I think all of Manitoba, including George Island Light on Lake Winnipeg, vs. other Arctic Ocean west of Hudson's bay, vs. Labrador coast
*St. Lawrence River and Great Lakes: St. Lawrence River and Great Lakes lighthouses in the United States and Canada?  Lighthouses of the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence River drainage area?
**If this is too large (likely because Michigan alone has 150) then divide into smaller regions hydrographically, depending upon numbers, perhaps:
***Lighthouses of Lake Superior
***Lighthouses of Lake Huron and Lake Michigan
***Lighthouses of Lake Erie and Lake Ontario
***Lighthouses of the St. Lawrence Seaway
*Pacific Ocean: Lighthouses of the United States and Canada on the Pacific Ocean?
*Atlantic Ocean or "Atlantic seaboard" (perhaps divided into Canada vs. New England & Mid-Atlantic vs. South):
*Gulf of Mexico: List of lighthouses on the Gulf Coast of the United States?
*Mississippi River and other inland ones: List of lighthouses of the Mississippi River drainage area?
*Caribbean Sea: List of lighthouses in the United States' territories of the Caribbean?
I kinda think it would be good to merge List of lighthouses in Canada with this list, and to combine the corresponding regions, as it would properly ignore political boundaries and follow Nature instead.  Mexico is sufficiently separate that I would leave it alone.  But U.S. and Canada overlap in multiple natural regions Pacific coast, Atlantic coast, St. Lawrence River and Great Lakes, and possibly Arctic Ocean.  It also would not bother me if the region articles had disparate names, as long as they were well-defined natural regions.  It is not necessary for the titles to describe everything:  an Atlantic seaboard lighthouses article can be explained in its lede to cover lighthouses on inland bays and rivers (like the lighthouse in Philadelphia on the Delaware River(?), and Chesapeake Bay, etc.).  It is not necessary for the title to convey that one U.S. lighthouse in Cuba (not a U.S. territory) is included along with PR territory and VI territory ones in a "List of lighthouses in the U.S. territories of the Caribbean".  To merge would require broader discussion in an RFC, and could be done later.  But what do editors here think? --doncram 21:21, 23 July 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't want the article to be too long though it is going to make it hard for editing. - Knowledgekid87 (talk) 21:24, 23 July 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: Fair enough, but no article should be too long, as this would cover more but would be divided into more regions.  For example the Atlantic coast would still be divided into 3 or 4 region list-articles, depending on numbers (e.g. Canada's Atlantic coast (part of Quebec, all of Newfoundland, PEI, and more); Atlantic coast of New England; Atlantic coast of mid-Atlantic; Atlantic coast of U.S. South).  The Great Lakes would be divided by lakes if necessary.  Any region too big would be divided.  There would be one highest level List of lighthouses in the United States and Canada that lists all the region list-articles. --doncram 23:34, 23 July 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Merge with Canada?

message: I'm happy to see User:Bubba73 table-zing the Georgia section in the article.  I was going to add to what they did, didn't realize they were still editing. --doncram 18:33, 23 July 2016 (UTC)
replies: text:  I had to do a similar long shot over the water to get Eureka Club/Farr's Point for NRHP places in Savannah's Chatham County.  Bubba73 You talkin' to me? 20:23, 23 July 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Georgia

message: "Map all coordinates using OSM" seems to show all of them, but "Map all coordinates using Google" doesn't show Georgia.  Why? Bubba73 You talkin' to me? 21:29, 23 July 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: It must not have updated for you.  For me, now, I can see the GA ones in the linked Google map.  I don't know how to force updating of the Google maps link any more.  It used to be like forcing update in Bing maps (modify the URL so "usecache" is zero not one, literally in the URL change string "usecache%3D1" to "usecache%3D0").  As you have noticed, though, the Bing map only shows first 200 coordinates appearing in the article, so Georgia's are not displayed.  Anyhow, I think the Google display will always update in a day or two or three. --doncram 02:36, 24 July 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: Oh, no! --doncram 02:36, 24 July 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Map all coordinates 

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message: The table of Georgia lighthouses is almost completely redundant with List of lighthouses in Georgia (U.S. state), but there are some differences in the data between the two tables.  Should the table here be eliminated and any info be merged into the other article?  Bubba73 You talkin' to me? 23:58, 12 October 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: I just got rid of it, I am in the process of making all of the lighthouses easily accessed via tables per state. - Knowledgekid87 (talk) 00:27, 13 October 2017 (UTC)
replies: text:  Thank you! Bubba73 You talkin' to me? 01:47, 13 October 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Georgia 

message: This  says 154 feet but Tybee Island Light says 144.  Bubba73 You talkin' to me? 02:02, 13 October 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: The Tybee Island Light article needs to be updated as the number 144 is un-sourced. - Knowledgekid87 (talk) 14:40, 13 October 2017 (UTC)
replies: text:  The lighthouse website says 145 feet.  Bubba73 You talkin' to me? 22:01, 13 October 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Tybee Island Light]] - how tall? 

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