BARKLOW MOUNTAIN
Curry County - Siskiyou National Forest - 32S-12W-30
August 18, 1933: "The government packer, Leo Fry, returned Wednesday noon to town after packing a new lookout to Barklow mountain. This is a new station." (The Coquille Valley Sentinel)
September 1933: "The lookout-fireman cabin is being packed to Barklow Mountain." (The Siskiyou Bulletin)
May 1940: "Position is apparently in a fog belt. Its seen area takes in some high rate of spread country, but lightning does not seem to be much of a factor, and but few man-caused fires have occurred within the national forest boundaries seen by this position. It has not in past years been manned prior to mid-July, but has been kept on until late in September." (Plans, Guard Placement, Siskiyou National Forest)
1941: The lookout staffed 65 days. reported to the Powers ranger Station by way of West Coast Telephone.
July 3, 1957: "Plans call for a new type of all-steel cabin to be constructed on Barklow, which will be the prototype of all future lookout cabins. The cabin is for experimental purposes." (The Coos Bay Times)
1957: A new 13x13 all steel CL-100 lookout house was constructed. The Barklow structure was built of metal with a plywood interior and all materials were moved up a three-mile trail by hand and by pack mule to the lookout site. It took four men three months to haul materials and construct the lookout. (The World)
October 1, 1957: "Robert Frye, who has been on Barklow Mt. Lookout, has been put on the trail crew. Ronald Moseley of Missouri is now lookout." (The World)
July 29, 1967: "Keith Callander, Walla Walla College where he is a pre med student. He is lookout on Barklow Mountain." (The World)
September 29, 1972: "Everett and Sue Deniston were married in June. Two days after the wedding, they went up to the Barklow lookout in the Powers district of the Siskiyous. They are now at Bald Knob lookout." (Corvallis Gazette-Times)
1973: The lookout site discontinued, the structure was flown by helicopter to the Lake of the Woods lookout to replace an earlier building.
DESIGNATION - BARKLOW LOOKOUT TOWER
PID - OA0888
STATE/COUNTY- OR/CURRY
COUNTRY - US
USGS QUAD - BARKLOW MOUNTAIN (1986)
STATION DESCRIPTION
DESCRIBED BY COAST AND GEODETIC SURVEY 1942 (JCS)
THIS INTERSECTION STATION IS LOCATED IN THE SISKIYOU NATIONAL
FOREST 17 MILES E OF PORT ORFORD, 10 MILES SW OF POWERS RANGER
STATION AT POWERS, 5-3/4 MILES WSW OF CHINA FLATS, AND ABOUT 5
MILES S OF THE OLD POWERS RANCH NEAR THE MOUTH OF TIM
CREEK. LOOKOUT IS ON THE NW END OF THE PROMINENT, BALD, ROCKY
RIDGE KNOWN AS BARKLOW MOUNTAIN AND ON THE SAME POINT AS THE
U.S.C. AND G.S. TRIANGULATION STATION BARKLOW 1942.
BARKLOW LOOKOUT IS A 10- BY 10-FOOT GREY COLORED HOUSE WITH
GLASS WINDOWS ALL AROUND, AND IS ABOUT 10 FEET HIGH. BUILDING
SETS ON THE GROUND, HAS A CONICAL-SHAPED ROOF WITH A LIGHTNING
ROD AT THE APEX WHICH IS TAKEN TO BE THE CENTER OF THE
LOOKOUT. LOOKOUT IS LOCATED ABOUT 35 FEET SE OF THE MOST
NORTHERLY POINT OF THE RIDGE, AT A POINT WHERE THE TRAIL REACHES
THE RIDGE TOP. LINE FROM THE TRIANGULATION STATION BARKLOW
1942 WAS MEASURED TO A PLUMB LINE FROM THE LIGHTNING ROD
AFFIXED TO THE ROOF OF THE LOOKOUT.