GRANT COUNTY
BONE POINT
Oregon Department of Forestry
7S-31E-06
7S-31E-06
April 24, 1930: "Installation of six miles of forest telephone line completed connecting Dale ranger station with new Bone Point lookout station on John Day river." (The Maupin Times)
July 2, 1942: "A small lightning fire was reported from Bone Point this week." (The Record-Courier)
c.1947: The state purchased 10 surplus towers from airfields used during the World War Two era. One of them being a 30-foot steel structure placed at Bone Point.
1954: Sealed the lookout cab with plywood and painted the interior. Rock was blasted near the top in order to make the road wider and safer to get supplies to the lookout.
STATION DESCRIPTION
DESCRIBED BY COAST AND GEODETIC SURVEY 1946 (DHK)
STATION IS LOCATED ABOUT 4 MILES WEST OF DALE AND ABOUT 11-1/2
MILES SOUTH-SOUTHWEST OF UKIAH, IN THE WHITMAN NATIONAL FOREST ON
THE MOUNTAIN LOCALLY KNOWN AS BONE POINT. IT IS A STANDARD
FOREST SERVICE LOOKOUT TOWER OF WOOD CONSTRUCTION AND ABOUT 40
FEET HIGH. IT WAS CONNECTED BY TRAVERSE TO TRIANGULATION STATION
BONE 1946. CENTER OF BASE OF TOWER WAS THE POINT MEASURED TO.
THE CENTER OF THE TOWER IS NOT OVER THE U.S. FOREST SERVICE BRONZE
DISK STAMPED--BONE POINT L.O.T. 1936. A POSITION BUT NO
DESCRIPTION WAS AVAILABLE FOR THIS STATION SO THAT IT IS
BELIEVED THAT THIS IS A NEW U.S.C. AND G.S. STATION.