WASCO COUNTY
FIVE MILE BUTTE
Mount Hood National Forest
2S-11E-7
2S-11E-7
October 30, 1932: "New standard lookout cabins have been constructed at Flag Point and Five-Mile butte, 20 miles southwest of headquarters." (The Sunday Oregonian)
1936: The telephone ring for this station was: one long, two short, one long.
1937: "On the headwaters of the Five Mile Creek a large white coyote was sighted by the lookout." source lost
1937: "On the headwaters of the Five Mile Creek a large white coyote was sighted by the lookout." source lost
February 4, 1958: “A new 15' 4” lookout house was fitted to a new 14' tower 30 feet high on Five Mile L.O.” (I-information – Historical Report, Barlow District - 1957)