WASCO COUNTY
FLAG POINT
Mount Hood National Forest
3S-11E-7
3S-11E-7
March 1931: "A local member of the unemployment relief project, Flag Point road, broadcast the fact he would rather skin four mules on a 'two-bottom' at two bucks a day than work for the Forest Service. A resident farmer with a sense of humor hearing of this, offered such a job and the shift was made, thus placing another worthy family man on the road job much to the discomfiture of the man who is now skinning the four, his nose perpetually blue in the teeth of the northwester whistling over the flat. O.J. Johnson" (Six Twenty-Six)
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: three short, on long.
September 1937: "Guard Ben Wagner engaged in maintenance work at the head of Tygh Creek tactfully abandoned his work on finding himself confronted by a 300-pound black bear, particularly since there were no huckleberries in the area." (Six Twenty-Six)
1960's: A new 40-foot treated timber tower with a 15x15 R-6 cab was constructed.
1960's: A new 40-foot treated timber tower with a 15x15 R-6 cab was constructed.
DESIGNATION - FLAG POINT LOOKOUT TOWER
PID - RC2230
STATE/COUNTY- OR/WASCO
COUNTRY - US
USGS QUAD - FLAG POINT (1996)
STATION DESCRIPTION
DESCRIBED BY COAST AND GEODETIC SURVEY 1946 (CAG)
LOCATED ON THE SUMMIT OF FLAG POINT IN THE MT. HOOD NATIONAL FOREST.
IT IS A 40 FOOT WOODEN TOWER.
STATION RECOVERY (1947)
RECOVERY NOTE BY COAST AND GEODETIC SURVEY 1947 (WRH)
THE STATION IS THE CENTER OF THE FOREST SERVICE LOOKOUT TOWER
WHICH IS LOCATED ON THE SUMMIT OF FLAG POINT IN THE MT. HOOD
NATIONAL FOREST. IT IS LOCATED ABOUT 15 MILES NORTH OF THE BEAR
SPRINGS GUARD STATION AND 12 MILES EAST SOUTHEAST OF THE SUMMIT
OF MOUNT HOOD. THE STATION IS THE CENTER OF THE LOOKOUT TOWER
WHICH IS ABOUT 90 FEET IN HEIGHT AND HAS A PEAKED ROOF.