FOREST LOOKOUTS
  • OREGON
  • BAKER COUNTY
    • Baker Ranger Station
    • Bald Mountain
    • Bennett Peak
    • Big Lookout Mountain
    • Bull Run Rock
    • Cornucopia Peak
    • Dalton Ranch
    • Dooley Mountain
    • East End (Beaver)
    • Goodrich Lake
    • Huckleberry Mountain
    • Lookout Mountain
    • Murray Hill
    • North Powder
    • Pine Ranger Station
    • Red Knob
    • Russel Mountain
    • Sparta Butte
    • Stump Springs
    • Summit Point
    • Table Rock
    • Trinity Guard Station
    • Unity Guard Station
  • BENTON COUNTY
    • Alsea Summit
    • Grass Mountain
    • Green Peak
    • Mary's Peak
    • Pioneer Butte
    • Price Peak
  • CLACKAMAS COUNTY
    • Aschoff Butte
    • Bald Mountain
    • Baty Butte
    • Bedford Point
    • Buckskin Point
    • Burnt Granite
    • Devils Backbone
    • Devils Peak
    • Eagle Creek Ridge
    • East Zigzag Mountain
    • Fish Creek Mountain
    • Goat Mountain
    • Hickman Butte
    • High Camp
    • High Rock
    • Highland Butte
    • Hillockburn
    • Hiyu Mountain
    • Hopkins Demonstration Forest
    • Hunchback
    • Indian Ridge
    • Jackpot Point
    • Lenhart Butte
    • Lone Fir Rock
    • Lowe Mountain
    • Mount Larson
    • Mountain Home Rock
    • Magness Tree Farm
    • Myers Butte
    • North Fork Station
    • North Mountain
    • Oak Grove Butte
    • Oak Grove Ranger Station
    • Ogle Mountain
    • Olmstead
    • Peavine Mountain
    • Pechuck
    • Rooster Rock
    • Salmon Butte
    • Salmon Mountain
    • Sandy Reservior
    • Sisi Butte
    • South Fork Mountain
    • Squaw Mountain
    • Table Rock
    • Thunder Mountain
    • Tom Dick Mountain
    • West Pinhead Butte
    • West Zigzag Mountain
    • Wildcat Mountain
    • Wolf Camp Butte
  • CLATSOP COUNTY
    • Boiler Ridge
    • Cole Mountain
    • Davis Point
    • Dog Thief Point
    • Green Mountain
    • Green Mountain
    • Nicolai Mountain
    • North Saddle
    • Sugarloaf Mountain
    • Wickiup Mountain
  • COLUMBIA COUNTY
    • Baker Point
    • Benson Mountain
    • Clatskanie Mountain
    • Enterprise Point
    • Mansfield Mountain
    • Meissner Point
    • Pisgah Mountain
    • Rocky Point
    • Serafin Point
    • Tunnel Mountain
    • Vista Lookout
  • COOS COUNTY
    • Anderson Mountain
    • Bald Knob
    • Barklow Mountain
    • Beaver Hill
    • Bennett Butte
    • Bill Peak
    • Blue Ridge
    • Bone Mountain
    • Brewster Rock
    • Bunker Hill
    • Coos Mountain
    • Eden Ridge
    • Elk Mountain
    • Elk Peak
    • Hanging Rock
    • Ivers Peak
    • Johnson Mountain
    • McKeever Mountain
    • Mount Bolivar
    • Signal Tree
    • Sugarloaf Mountain
    • Thomas Mountain
    • Trail Butte
    • Vaughns Point
  • CROOK COUNTY
    • Arrowwood Point
    • Big Summit Prairie
    • Black Butte
    • Drake Butte
    • Foley Butte
    • Gerow Butte
    • Hash Rock
    • Ingram Point
    • Lookout Mountain
    • Lutsey Point
    • Mackey Butte
    • Paulina Butte
    • Ray Mountain
    • Round Mountain
    • Tower Point
    • View Point
    • West Maury Mountain
    • Wildcat Mountain
  • CURRY COUNTY
    • Bald Ridge
    • Bear Camp
    • Bearwallow
    • Bob's Garden
    • Bosley Butte
    • Brushy Bald
    • Butler Mountain
    • Chetco Peak
    • Cleopatra Mountain
    • Colegrove Butte
    • Collier Butte
    • Edson Butte
    • Fishhook Peak
    • Game Lake Peak
    • Grassy Knob
    • Grizzly Mountain
    • Iron Mountain
    • Johnson Butte
    • Lake of the Woods
    • Long Ridge
    • Mislatnah Mountain
    • Mount Emily
    • Packsaddle Mountain
    • Panther
    • Pearsoll Peak
    • Pebble Hill
    • Pyramid Rock
    • Quail Prairie Mountain
    • Ranger Peak
    • Rocky Peak
    • Snow Camp Mountain
    • Sugarloaf Mountain
    • Three Tree
    • Vulcan Peak
    • Wildhorse Prairie
  • DESCHUTES COUNTY
    • Bachelor Butte
    • Bates Butte
    • Bend (Awbrey Butte)
    • Black Crater
    • Broken Top
    • Cache Mountain
    • Cultus Mountain
    • Davis Mountain
    • East Butte
    • Finley Butte
    • Fuzztail Butte
    • Henkle Butte
    • Lava Butte
    • Lookout Mountain
    • Maiden Peak
    • McKay Butte
    • McKinney Butte
    • Paulina Peak
    • Pilot Butte
    • Pine Mountain
    • Pistol Butte
    • Plot Butte
    • Rosland Ranger Station
    • Round Mountain
    • Sand Springs Tree
    • Sisters Ranger Station
    • Sugarpine Butte
    • Three Creek Butte
    • Triangle Hill Tree
    • Trout Creek Butte
    • Tumalo Butte
    • Tumalo Mountain
    • Wanoga Butte
  • DOUGLAS COUNTY
    • Abbott Butte
    • Acker Rock
    • Anderson Camp
    • Bald Ridges
    • Balm Mountain
    • Bateman
    • Baughman Point
    • Bell Mountain
    • Big Squaw Mountain
    • Black Rock
    • Bland Mountain
    • Buckhorn Mountain
    • Butler Butte
    • Callahan
    • Chilcoot
    • Cinder Prairie
    • Cinnamon Butte
    • Clayton Point
    • Coffin Butte
    • Collins Mountain
    • Cougar Bluff
    • Cougar Pass
    • Cowhorn Ridge
    • Coyote Point
    • Damewood Point
    • Deans Mountain
    • Deer Head Point
    • Devil's Knob
    • Diamond Rock
    • Dog Prairie
    • Dutchman Butte
    • Elephant Mountain
    • Fern Top
    • Flat Rock
    • Garwood Butte
    • Gold Mountain
    • Grasshopper
    • Green Butte
    • Harness Mountain
    • Hemlock Butte
    • Henderson Peak
    • Hershberger Mountain
    • Hills Peak
    • Huckleberry Mountain
    • Illahee Rock
    • Joe's Lookout
    • Johnson Butte.
    • Kelly Butte
    • Kelsay Mountain
    • Kelsay Valley Point
    • Landers
    • Limpy Prairie
    • Little Black Rock
    • Live Oak Mountain
    • Lookout Mountain
    • Mace Mountain
    • Mount Bailey
    • Mount Scott
    • Ninemile Mountain
    • Oak Flats
    • Pickett Butte
    • Pig Iron
    • Quartz Mountain
    • Rattlesnake Mountain
    • Red Butte
    • Red Mountain
    • Roman Nose Mountain
    • Scare Ridge
    • Shivigny Mountain
    • Silver Butte
    • Skookum Prairie
    • Smith Ridge
    • Steamboat Point
    • Sugar Pine
    • Taft Mountain
    • Tallow Butte
    • Twin Lakes
    • Umpqua Hot Springs
    • Wards Butte
    • Watson Butte
    • White Rock
    • Windy Camp
    • Yellow Butte
    • Yellow Point
    • **DOUGLAS ***
  • GRANT COUNTY
    • Aldrich Butte
    • Ant Hill
    • Antelope Mountain
    • Badger Butte
    • Baldy Mountain
    • Beech Creek (elo)
    • Big Rocks (elo)
    • Bingham Point (elo)
    • Black Butte
    • Black Butte (elo)
    • Bone Point
    • Crane Point
    • Crockett Knob
    • Cummings Peak
    • Desolation Butte
    • Dixie Butte
    • Dry Soda
    • Fall Mountain
    • Fields Peak
    • Flagtail Mountain
    • Frazier Point
    • Frenchy Butte
    • Gold Hill
    • Grassy Butte
    • Hardscrabble Mountain
    • Indian Rock
    • Lake Butte
    • Lakes Mountain
    • Little Malheur (ELO)
    • Long Creek Butte
    • Monument Mountain
    • Mount Ireland
    • Myrtle Butte
    • Pellet Point
    • Pogue Point
    • Prairie City
    • Prairie Hill
    • Pyramid Point
    • Ritter Butte
    • Rudio Mountain
    • Sheep Mountain
    • Silver Butte
    • Snow Mountain
    • Snowshoe Mountain
    • Spion Copp
    • Strawberry Mountain
    • Sugarloaf
    • Tamarack Mountain
    • Thorn Creek Butte
    • Thorn Spring Butte
    • Vinegar Hill
    • West Myrtle Butte
    • Wolf Mountain
  • HARNEY COUNTY
    • Bald Butte
    • Burnt Mountain
    • Calamity Butte
    • Craft Point
    • Donnelly Butte
    • Dry Mountain
    • Emigrant Butte
    • King Mountain
    • Malheur Wildlife Refuge
    • Nicoll Butte
    • P Ranch
    • Riddle Mountain
    • Sod House
    • Sugarloaf Mountain
    • Wagontire Mountain
    • **Harney County***
  • HOOD RIVER COUNTY
    • Badger Butte Tree
    • Bald Butte
    • Barlow Butte
    • Barlow Point
    • Bonney Butte
    • Bonney Butte (ELO)
    • Buck Peak
    • Chinidere Mountain
    • Cooper Spur
    • Crane Mountain..
    • Eagle Butte
    • Elk Mountain
    • Green Point Mountain
    • Indian Mountain
    • Lamberson Butte
    • Lookout Mountain
    • Lost Lake Butte
    • Mill Creek Butte
    • Mount Defiance
    • Mount Hood
    • Parkdale Ranger Station
    • Perry Point Tree
    • Red Hill Guard Station
    • Rimrock
    • Shellrock Mountain
    • Tanner Butte
    • Tony Creek Guard Station
    • Twin Pines
    • Wauna Point
    • Windy Camp
  • JACKSON COUNTY
    • Alco Rock
    • Anderson Butte
    • Battle Mountain
    • Bessie Rock
    • Blue Rock
    • Brush Mountain
    • Buck Point
    • Buck Rock
    • Burnt Peak
    • Camp Two
    • Central Point SWOFPA HQ
    • Chimney Rock
    • Cinnabar Trail
    • Crane Prairie Mountain
    • Doe Peak
    • Dutchman's Peak
    • Fredenburg Butte
    • Goss Ranch
    • Halls Point
    • Hamaker Butte
    • Huckleberry Mountain
    • Little Chinquapin Mountain
    • Mount Ashland
    • Mount Isabelle
    • Mount McLoughlin
    • Mount Stella
    • Oak Mountain
    • Old Baldy
    • Palmer Peak
    • Poole Hill
    • Ragsdale Butte
    • Railroad Gap
    • Robinson Butte
    • Round Top
    • Roxy Ann Peak
    • Rustler Peak
    • Santiam Peak
    • Soda Mountain
    • Squaw Peak
    • Stein Butte
    • Table Mountain
    • Tallowbox Mountain
    • Wagner Butte
    • Whetstone (Bald)
    • White Point
    • Yellowjacket Mountain
  • JEFFERSON COUNTY
    • Abbot Butte
    • Alder Springs
    • Alder Springs Tree
    • Bald Peter.
    • Black Butte
    • Fly Lake
    • Green Ridge
    • Lookout Butte
    • Olallie Butte
    • Round Butte.
    • Shitike Butte
    • Stephenson Mountain
  • JOSEPHINE COUNTY
    • Bald Mountain
    • Bolan Mountain
    • Canyon Peak
    • Chrome Ridge
    • Hayward Mountain
    • Hobson Horn
    • Kerby Peak
    • King Mountain
    • Lake Mountain
    • Little Grayback Mountain
    • Manzanita Mountain
    • Meadow Camp
    • Mount Reuben
    • Onion Mountain
    • Peavine Mountain
    • Sexton Mountain
    • Silver Peak
    • Steves Peak
    • Tennessee Mountain
    • Waldo Hill
    • Whiskey Peak
    • York Butte
    • Yukon Peak
  • KLAMATH COUNTY
    • Agency Hill
    • Applegate Butte
    • Aspen Butte
    • Bald Mountain
    • Bear Butte
    • Bly (City Park)
    • Bly (KFPA)
    • Bly Ranger Station
    • Boundary Butte
    • Brown Mountain
    • Bryant Mountain
    • Buck Mountain
    • Buck Peak
    • Calimus Butte
    • Chase Mountain
    • Coon Point
    • Crater Peak
    • Crescent Ranger Station
    • Deer Butte
    • Devil's Peak
    • Fort Klamath
    • Goodlow Mountain
    • Grizzly Mountain
    • Ground Observer Corps
    • Hambleton Butte
    • Hogback Mountain
    • Horsefly Mountain
    • Klamath Point
    • Lookout Butte
    • Marine Barracks
    • Modoc Point
    • Moffitt Butte
    • Mount Scott
    • Mule Hill
    • Odell Butte
    • Parker Mountain
    • Pelican Butte
    • Porter Butte
    • Pumice Butte
    • River Beds Butte
    • Rodeo Butte
    • Round Butte (Bly)
    • Round Butte
    • Shake Butte
    • Skookum Butte
    • Spodue Mountain
    • Spring Butte
    • Steiger Butte
    • Sugarpine Mountain
    • Summit Butte
    • Summit Rock
    • Swan Lake Mountain
    • The Watchman
    • Union Peak
    • Upper Klamath Refuge
    • Walker Mountain
    • Yainax Butte
    • Yamsay Mountain
  • LAKE COUNTY
    • Abert Rim
    • Avery Pass
    • Bald Butte
    • Big Hole Butte
    • Buck Mountain
    • Cabin Lake Ranger Station
    • Coleman Point
    • Cougar Peak
    • Crane Mountain
    • Currier Camp
    • Dairy Point
    • Dead Indian Mountain
    • Deadhorse Rim
    • Deerhead Butte
    • Dog Mountain
    • Drakes Peak
    • Fir Timber Butte
    • Fishhole Butte
    • Fitzwater Point
    • Fort Rock
    • Foster Butte
    • Fox Butte
    • Fremont Point
    • Gearhart Mountain
    • Green Mountain
    • Hagar Mountain
    • Indian Butte
    • Lookout Rock
    • McCarty Butte
    • Morgan Butte
    • Quartz Butte
    • Rodman Rock
    • Round Pass
    • Shoestring Butte
    • Sixteen Butte
    • Slide Mountain
    • Strawberry Butte
    • Sycan Butte
    • Sycan Marsh (ZX)
    • Willow Point
  • LANE COUNTY - 2
    • Adams Mountain
    • Bald Butte
    • Bearbones Mountain
    • Bohemia Mountain
    • Buck Mountain
    • Burnt Top
    • Buster Butte
    • Canton Point
    • Cape Mountain
    • Castle Rock
    • Castle Rock (Fed)
    • Clark Butte
    • Cummins Peak
    • Dead Mountain
    • Deer Butte
    • Detection Point
    • Divide Ridge
    • Dome Rock
    • Eagles Rest
    • Emigrant Butte
    • Fairview Mountain
    • Fairview Peak
    • Fawn Rock
    • Frissell Point
    • Fuji Mountain
    • Gold Hill
    • Gold Point
    • Goodwin Peak
    • Grand Butte
    • Grass Mountain
    • Grasshopper Mountain
    • Hardesty Mountain
    • Harvey Mountain.
    • Heckletooth Mountain
    • Hehe Mountain
    • Hemlock Butte
    • Herman Peak
    • Holland Point
    • Horse Mountain
    • Horsepasture Mountain
    • Huckleberry Mountain
    • Indian Ridge
    • Lamb Butte
    • Larison Rock
    • Laurel Mountain
    • Little Bunchgrass Mountain
    • Little Cowhorn Mountain
    • Logger Butte
    • Lookout Mountain
    • Lookout Point
    • Low Pass
    • Lowell Butte
    • Moon Point
    • Mount Hagan
    • Mount June
    • Mount Nebo
    • Mule Mountain #1
    • Mule Mountain #2
    • Noti Mountain
    • Olallie Mountain
    • Packsaddle Mountain
    • Prairie Peak
    • Rebel Rock
    • Rujada Point
    • Saddle Mountain Guard Station
    • Saddle Blanket Mountain
    • Sardine Mountain
    • Scott Mountain
    • Siltcoos Mountain
    • Station Butte
    • Stony Point
    • Substitute Point
    • Sunset Mountain
    • Swastika Mountain
    • Table Mountain
    • Teeter Point
    • Tipsoo Butte
    • Tire Mountain
    • Twin Rocks
    • Waldo Mountain
    • Walker Point (E)
    • Walker Point
    • Warner Mountain
    • Winberry Mountain
    • Windy Peak
    • Wolf Mountain
    • Wolf Point
    • ..
  • LINCOLN COUNTY
    • Baber Butte
    • Blodgett Peak
    • Cannibal Mountain
    • Chinquapin Point
    • Cougar Mountain
    • Euchre Mountain
    • Green Point
    • Hilltop
    • Norton Hill
    • Otter Crest
    • Rocky Top.
    • Saddlebag Mountain
    • South Beaver
    • Stodt Mountain
    • Suncrest Point
    • Table Mountain
  • LINN COUNTY
    • Bachelor Mountain
    • Bald Peter
    • Big Rock
    • Carpenter Mountain
    • Chandler Mountain
    • Chimney Peak
    • Chimney Rock
    • Coffin Mountain
    • Crescent Mountain
    • Green Butte
    • Green Mountain
    • Green Peter
    • Grizzly Peak
    • High Deck
    • High Rock
    • Horse Rock
    • Iron Mountain
    • Jordan Mountain
    • Jump Off Joe
    • Kaufman's Mountain
    • Kinney Ridge
    • Marion Mountain
    • Maxwell Butte
    • Minniece Point
    • Monument Peak
    • Mount Jefferson
    • Red Butte
    • Rocky Point
    • Rooster Rock
    • Sand Mountain
    • Scar Mountain
    • Scott Mountain
    • Slate Rock
    • Snow Peak
    • Stahlman Point
    • Swamp Mountain
    • Three Pyramids
    • Tidbits Mountain
    • Tom Rock
    • Twin Buttes
    • Wildcat Mountain
    • Yellowstone Mountain
    • ?
  • MALHEUR COUNTY
    • Cottonwood Mountain
    • Monument Peak
  • MARION COUNTY
    • Battle Ax
    • Bear Point
    • Bull of the Woods
    • Camp 16
    • Dome Rock
    • Duro (Sweet Springs Mtn)
    • Eagle Rock
    • Gold Butte
    • Gyp Point
    • Hawk Mountain
    • Henline Mountain
    • Hoover Ridge
    • House Mountain
    • Lookout Mountain
    • Outerson Mountain
    • Potato Butte
    • Pyramid Butte
    • Rocky Top
    • Ruddy Hill
    • Salem ODF Headquarters
    • Triangulation Peak
    • Whetstone Mountain
    • Whitman Rock
  • MORROW COUNTY
    • Arbuckle Mountain
    • Madison Butte
    • Porcupine Ridge
    • Potamus Point
    • Red Hill
  • MULTNOMAH COUNTY
    • Big Bend
    • Burgard
    • Dixie
    • Larch Mountain
    • Lookout Point
    • Madrona Park
    • Mt Talapus
    • Nesmith Point
    • Palmer Peak
    • Pepper Mountain
    • Portland, City (4 locations)
    • Skyline
    • St Johns
    • Table Mountain
    • Walker Peak
  • POLK COUNTY
    • Bald Mountain
    • Condenser Peak
    • Dorn Peak
    • Fanno Mountain
    • Rileys Peak
  • TILLAMOOK COUNTY
    • Bell Mountain
    • Blue Lake Mountain
    • Buzzard Butte
    • Cedar Butte
    • Edwards Butte
    • Foley Peak
    • Gauldy Mountain
    • Gobbler's Knob
    • Grindstone Mountain
    • Hembre Mountain
    • Kilchis Mountain
    • Nehalem G.S.
    • Rector
    • Square Top
    • Triangulation Point
  • UMATILLA COUNTY
    • Boiling Point
    • Carney Butte
    • Emigrant Hill
    • Gibbon Ridge
    • Goodman Ridge
    • Johnson Creek
    • Lucky Strike
    • McIntyre Mountain
    • Meacham
    • Pearson Ridge
    • Summit Guard Station
    • Tip Top Mountain
    • Tower Mountain..
    • Ukiah Ranger Station
    • Yellowjacket Point
  • UNION COUNTY
    • Anthony Butte
    • Balloon Tree
    • Bally Mountain
    • Beaver Mountain
    • Big Hill
    • Chicken Hill
    • Clark Creek Guard Station
    • Elk Mountain
    • Flagstaff Mountain
    • Flat Lake
    • Frazier Mountain
    • Glass Hill
    • High Ridge
    • Johnson Rock
    • Limber Jim
    • Lookout Mountain
    • Loop
    • Marion Point
    • Meadow Mountain
    • Mount Emily
    • Mount Fanny
    • Mount Harris
    • Mule Peak
    • Point Prominence
    • Spout Springs
    • Summit Springs
    • West Eagle
    • *********
  • WALLOWA COUNTY
    • Akers Butte
    • Big Flat
    • Bone Spring
    • Brumback (Findlay)
    • Buckhorn Mountain
    • Cementary Ridge
    • Cold Springs Tree
    • Courtney Butte
    • Day Ridge
    • Eden Tree
    • Elk Mountain
    • Fairchild Point
    • Gill Ranch
    • Goff Ranch
    • Harl Butte
    • Hat Point
    • Hearing Ranch
    • Hen
    • Hoodoo
    • Hoodoo Tree
    • Howard Butte
    • Huckleberry Mountain..
    • Kirkland Butte
    • Lookout Mountain
    • Lookout Mountain...
    • McGraw Mountain
    • Mormon Mountain
    • Nebo Peak
    • Nesbit Butte
    • PO Saddle
    • Red Hill
    • Square Mountain
    • Stanley Mountain
    • Tope Creek
    • Wood Butte
    • ***WALLOWA***
  • WASCO COUNTY
    • Bald Peter Butte
    • Beaver Butte
    • Boulder Point Tree
    • Bulo Point
    • Bus Point Tree
    • Clear Lake Butte
    • Clear Lake Tree
    • Clear Point Tree
    • Dobry Point Tree
    • Dufur Ranger Station
    • Eagle Butte
    • Eightmile Point
    • Five Mile Butte
    • Flag Point
    • Foreman Point
    • Frog Lake Butte
    • Grasshopper Point
    • Mill Creek Ridge
    • Mount Wilson
    • Postage Stamp
    • Wasco Butte
  • WASHINGTON COUNTY
    • Baseline
    • Buxton Mountain
    • Hoffman Point
    • Round Top
    • Saddle Mountain (South)
    • Windy Point
  • WHEELER COUNTY
    • Collins Butte
    • Mount Pisgah
    • North Baldy
    • Ochoco Butte
    • Peterson Point
    • Rancheria Rock
    • Sargent Butte
    • Snowboard Ridge
    • South Baldy
    • Spanish Peak
    • Wheeler Point
    • Whitetail Butte
    • Wolf Mountain
  • YAMHILL COUNTY
    • Bald Mountain
    • Burnt Ridge
    • High Heaven
    • Little Hebo
    • Mount Hebo
    • Niagra Point
    • Spitit Mountain
    • Stony Mountain
    • Trask Mountain
POLK COUNTY

BALD MOUNTAIN

Polk County FPA
9S-7W-9
1913:  "There is now a telephone line connecting Falls City with the Cobb-Mitchell headquarters in Section 36, Township 8 South, Range 8 West, and from there to the lookout station on top of Bald Mountain in the southwest corner of Section 3, Township 9 South, Range 8 West.  These telephone lines are owned by the Cobb-Mitchell interest and the one from their headquarters to the lookout station is used exclusively by this association.  The trail work, as well as telephone line construction, is permanent and will serve adequately as a basis for a complete system of trails and telephone lines throughout the entire forest district."  (Report of State Forester - 1914)

July 30, 1914:
  "The Polk County Fire Patrol Association has just completed five miles of telephone line from Black Rock to a look-out station located on the divide between the Luckiamute and La Creole rivers, thence to a fire warden's station on the LaCreole river."   (Polk County Itemizer)

​April 16, 1916:
  "The directors of the Polk County Fire Patrol association held their annual meeting in this city this week.  W.V. Fuller was reelected secretary treasurer and manager.  He was instructed to build a new lookout station on top of Bald mountain and run a telephone line to it.  An assessment of .018 cents per acre was levied on its members.  The association controls about 130,000 acres of timber land in Polk county."   (The Oregon Daily Journal)

June 9, 1916:   ":A force of men under the direction of District Supervising Fire Warden W.V. Fuller, are engaged in the construction of about four miles of new telephone line in the timber in the western part of the county.  The new line will run from the main line to a lookout station on the top of Bald Mountain.  The new station at this point will be a great help to the patrolmen as an observer can obtain an almost unobstructed view of the whole Siletz Basin and can therefore warn the patrolmen in the different districts if he sees a fire.  The old telephone lines are also being put into repair and the trails cleared of timber that has fallen into them during the winter months and the whole district being put into shape for the handling of fires should any occur the coming summer."   (Daily Capital Journal)

June 24, 1916:   "Another new lookout is one placed on Bald mountain, in southern Polk county, and a telephone line running from Falls City to Siletz basin has been connected with this point."   (Statesman Journal)

June 15, 1918:   "Mr. Fuller and a gang of men have about finished the construction of a high lookout tower on the summit of Bald mountain which rises some 3700 feet west of Falls City.  From this station it will be possible for the fire warden to obtain a clear view of the vast timbered section of the entire western part of the county and with telephone connections in the tower he can notify wardens throughout the district of any fires he may discover.
      Polk county is without doubt one of the best patrolled counties in the state and Mr. Fuller has had trails cut in every direction through the timber to allow quick travel in case of fires."   (The Oregon Statesman)

July 4, 1920:   "One of the best lookout stations in this part of the country has just been established on Bald mountain where a landing field for airplanes has been established and a wireless plant will be installed in the near future.  The station is in charge of T.C. Stockwell, a graduate of the Y.M.C.A. wireless school in Portland."   (Statesman Journal)

July 17, 1920:   "Tom Stockwell, who has been on the lookout post on top of Bald Mountain since the forest patrols went out, is spending a few days in town.  Jim Braden has relieved him."   (Capital Journal)

July 20, 1920:   "W.V. Fuller, Polk county fire patrol warden, has been busy this week with large forces of men, preparing the trails and repairing the telephone lines through the timbered section of Polk county.
      A number of patrolmen have already been placed on duty and within the next few days several more will be added.  Among those who entered the employ of the fire wardens office this week was T.C. Stockwell, a wireless operator who will have charge of the Bald mountain station.
      Last year there were but few fires in Polk county and it is Mr. Fuller's intention still to reduce this number this year, which he believes can be done."   (Morning Oregonian)

August 20, 1920:  "W.V. Fuller, district fire warden for Polk County, reports a big forest fire raging on the line of the Valley and Siletz railway south of the lookout station on Bald Mountain and that all efforts up to the present to stop the rush of flames have been futile.
     Large crews from the logging camps in that vicinity have been fighting fire for the past several days, but apparently have made little headway, Mr. Fuller says."  (Medford Mail Tribune)

​June 25, 1921:   "The federal government will send a wireless outfit to be installed at the fire patrol lookout station on Bald mountain, in the southern part of Polk county.  The station is in charge of T.C. Stockwell, formerly a naval wireless operator."   (The Oregon Daily Journal)

July 12, 1921:   "The chief fire warden of this section of the country, W.V. Fuller, has just reported that the work of installing the wire receiving outfit at the fire patrol lookout station on the top of Bald mountain has been completed and the plant is now in operation in charge of T.C. Stockwell.  Mr. Fuller also reports that up to the present time there has been no fires reported by the Polk county patrolmen."   (Capital Journal)

July 29, 1921:   "The value of the wireless station recently installed at the fire patrol lookout station on top of Bald mountain, in Western Polk county, was proven Sunday when T.C. Stockwell, operator and lookout in charge, received a message from one of the patrol airplanes stating that a small fire had been discovered in the forest over the line in Lincoln county.  Stockwell immediately telephoned the information to the patrolman in that district and the blaze was soon put under control.  Stockwell 'talks' to the air men every day.  So no fires have been reported this season in Polk county forests."   (Independence Enterprise)

August 19, 1921:   "T.C. Stockwell, fire patrolman and wireless operator of the government lookout station on top of Bald mountain in the western part of Polk county picked up a wireless message from Eureka, Cal., this week telling ships that a heavy fog was along shore and advising them to keep well out to sea.
      Mr. Stockwell, whose station is somewhat isolated and who rarely gets a daily paper had not heard of the wreck of the Alaska at the time but after finding out the details of the wreck understood just why the warning was being sent out to ships.
      Mr. Stockwell was formerly in the merchant marine as a wireless operator and made several trips up and down the coast and across both the Atlantic and Pacific."   (The Oregon Statesman)
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June 17, 1922:   "Under the supervision and direction of W.V. Fuller, district warden, with headquarters at Dallas, the lookout station at Bald mountain has been completed.  This mountain is located about 23 miles southwest of this city and is in section 16, township 9 south, range 7 west.
      The tower is 50 feet in height, the base being 12 feet square and the top four feet.  The elevation of the mountain is 3700 feet and from the top of the tower can be seen the central and southern portion of Polk county, the northern portion of Benton county, and the eastern portion of Lincoln county.  The tower lookout is a young man who has been taking a course in forestry at the Oregon Agricultural college.  He will be stationed at that point throughout the summer, his duties starting  about a week ago.  Mr. Fuller now has seven men engaged in patrolling the timber."   (Capital Journal)

​July 4, 1922:
  "Fire that started Sunday today was reported sweeping up the west slope of Bald mountain.  The mountain, which is the highest in Polk county, is heavily timbered.  The forest fire control maintains an outlook on the top, which is entirely bare of trees."   (The Morning Oregonian)

July 5, 1922: "The fire situation in this district was worse tonight, according to officials. Two new blazes have been reported north of Falls City, and the local warden was called to investigate.
     The fire on the west slope of Bald mountain had grown worse. The mountain is the highest peak in Polk county, with a bare spot on top, where a lookout station was maintained, and heavy timber on the sides. The lookout left his post today, declaring that he was in danger of being surrounded by the flames. The clearing is but a few acres in extent, and it was said that the station would burn it the flames ran through the timber to the top of the mountain." (The Morning Oregonian)

July 7, 1922:   "According to a Dallas correspondent to a Portland paper the lookout ay Bald mountain was forced to flee from his station on account of excessive heat from the approaching forest fires.  W.V. Fuller, district fire warden, stated that this was not the case as he is still on duty and has not left that point.  Bald mountain is the highest peak in Polk county, with a bare spot on top where a lookout station is maintained."   (The Capital Journal)

September 5, 1923:   "Hugh G. Black, stationed at 23; Lynn Black, camp No. 3, and J.C. Gosso, lookout on Bald mountain, have ceased to work, and Thomas Stockwell has been moved from Valsetz to Cold Springs, and will also take care of Bald mountain.  Mrs. Stockwell, who has been camping with her husband during the summer, has returned to their home in Dallas."   (Daily Capital Journal)

July 25, 1924:  "Last night fire wardens reported that they believed at least two men and possibly more had been cut off by the fire and fear for their safety was expressed.  Late today William Caldwell, lookout at Bald mountain, telephoned to Dallas that two men had made their way across the mountain and were safe at Valsetz."  (Morning Oregonian)

June 25, 1925:  "Fire fighters were battling to save the big sawmill of the Cobbs-Mitchell Lumber company and the town of Valsetz in western Polk county from the spread of a forest fire that sprung up this morning, according to Will Caldwell, forest ranger on the Bald mountain lookout station.  Over the long-distance telephone Caldwell said that the flames fanned by a northeast wind, had burned up to the northern edge of the town.  Camp No. 4 of the Cobbs-Mitchell company is reported completely destroyed, and all employes of the company have been pressed into service to fight the fire."  (Morning Oregonian)

June 27, 1925:  "A cool night with heavy dew failing and a north wind blowing the fires back over the burned territory have reduced the forest fires in the Siletz basin today.  Yesterday the Willamette valley lumber camps were in danger of the rapidly spreading flames but the change of wind reduced the menace for the time being.  Will Caldwell, ranger lookout at Bald mountain, reported no new fires this morning."  (Morning Oregonian)

May 13, 1926:   "The warm weather following the rains of last week is again creating a fire hazard in the district and Mr. Vernon expects to station Will Caldwell on the Bald mountain lookout station within a few days unless more rains falls."   (Daily Capital Journal)

June 1, 1932:   "Hugh Walker, district warden of the Polk County Association, has announced that he has just completed a new lookout tower on the summit of Bald mountain.  The new tower is about 60 feet tall and was erected on the same spot where the old tower stood.  The old tower had been there for a number of years and had become so badly decayed that it was dangerous for the lookout."   (The Forest Log)

July 1,  1933:  "Hugh Walker, district warden of Polk county, recently advised the State Forester that some individual had stolen the fire finder from the Bald Mountain lookout.  While it was one of the old type and more or less obsolete, nevertheless, it served the purpose and the association will now have to provide another.  Mr. Walker states that if there are any of the associations who have an extra one at the present time he would like to borrow it for awhile.  At the same time he is wondering what use any one would have for a fire finder unless he is going to use it as a calling card when looking for a job as lookout.  Associations are warned to be on the lookout for such a man."  (Forest Log)

March 1934:  "Hugh Walker, district warden of the Polk county association, was a visitor in the forester's office recently.  Mr. Walker stated that the severe winds of last December blew the Bald mountain lookout tower over.  This tower was 66 feet high and guyed with four five-sixteenth cables as well as eight buckle guys.  While the guys did not break, the turnbuckles were straightened out.  Two of the main timbers were broken.  Mr. Walker reports that he can repair the lookout at a cost of slightly over $100."  (Forest Log)
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September 4, 1937:   "Hugh Walker, district warden of the Polk county fire patrol association, is a believer in water witching.  Reports at present indicate that he is awaiting proof of his ability as a wielder of a forked hazel stick in no less a place than the summit of Bald Mountain at one of the lookout stations in his territory.  By means of his stick, Walker located a spot 400 feet from the station and 60 feet below the summit, at which, he declares, water will be found.  By his calculations it will show at a depth of 16 feet and the completion of a well at this particular location is all that is necessary for the warden to win his case.
      The lookout men took spells at digging last season and went down 13 feet.  The final outcome of the experiment is being watched with considerable interest by everyone in the association."   (Daily Capital Journal)

October 1937:   "A problem in transportation was faced by the Polk County Fire Patrol Association in getting the materials for the lookout cabin to the summit of Bald Mountain.  It was first hauled by truck to Cold Springs, the point where the trail starts.  A cat was then used, the lumber stacked on a sled and dragged a distance of three and a half miles through the timber.  The final half mile to the summit was too much for the cat so a number of pack horses were secured for the final part of the job.  Some of the difficulties encountered can be judged from the fact that the maximum length of the lumber was 18 feet."   (The Forest Log)
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​June 16, 1942:  "This post was visited June 3.  A married couple, Mr. and Mrs. Cameron Mull, were stationed at this post.
     The 14x16 ground cabin was built in 1938.  It is sealed in and has been quite comfortable.  A good cooking and heating stove is needed.  A 90-foot tower, without a cab, is used principally for fire detection work but can be used for airplane spotting when weather is suitable.  A wood shed is to be built this month and will include a storage shed for supplies.
     The Spaulding Lumber Company is building a logging road to within 1/2 miles of this station this summer, and warden walker plans to haul wood logs to the station with a 'cat.'  About 12 cords of wood is expected to be needed to heat the cabin this winter." (Inspection Report from W.N. Parke, AWS Inspector, to James Frankland, USFS)

​August 3, 1943:
  "Use of AWS funds for the construction of the 8 x 14 sleeping room at the Monmouth cabin and shingling roofs of the cabins at Monmouth and Fanno posts is approved."  (Memorandum to the State Forester from James Frankland, USFS Engineering)
August 12, 1944:   "Mr. and Mrs. Lyle Thomas and family paid a brief visit to Dallas Tuesday.  He is serving as lookout for the fire association, stationed on Bald Mountain.  Thomas was principal of the junior high school here last year."   (The Oregon Statesman)
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1947:  A 40-foot timber tower with a 14x14 cab was constructed.

​1964:
  Replacement windows for the cab cost $448.69.

1966:  Four first reports were made from this station.

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1969:  The lookout was removed.

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