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
LAKE COUNTY

FOX BUTTE

Deschutes National Forest
23S-16E-6
August 7, 1919:  " Shortage of men in the Fort Rock district necessitated especial preparation, and the efficiency of the force at the disposal of Ranger Harriman, has been greatly increased by the installation of a heliograph at Fox Butte. The lookout at this station is Oscar Harding, while his father, Charles Harding, keeps up the camp at the foot of the butte, and maintains a water supply station for fire-fighters and travelers who run short."  (The Bend Bulletin)

September 16, 1920:   "Under the direction of Ranger Roy Mitchell, work has started putting in a phone line between the Cabin lake ranger station and the Fox butte fire lookout, Deputy Supervisor W.O. Harriman reported this morning.  The new line will be about 18 miles in length and is expected to be completed this fall."   (The Bend Bulletin)

August 19, 1922:  " After crowning badly yesterday afternoon and spreading over some 600 acres of yellow pine timber, fire northwest of Spring butte, six miles from Summit stage station, is believed under control today.
     The Fox butte lookout reported this morning that the edge of the fire was extending much more slowly than yesterday."  (The Bend Bulletin)

July 12, 1924:  " The storm which passed over the south end of the Deschutes national forest Friday afternoon is referred to by forest service men as a “dry storm,” although rain fell in certain sections. The lightning damaged the telephone line leading to Fox Butte."  (The Bend Bulletin)

October 10, 1924:  " The fifth standard lookout house, on Fox Butte in the Fort Rock district, to be constructed in the Deschutes national forest is now nearing completion, it is reported by forest service officials. The Fox Butte station is being built by H. E. Derrick, former national forest ranger.
     Standard lookout houses are at present located in every district of the Deschutes forest, and in time it is planned to replace all the old shelters with standard stations."  (The Bend Bulletin)

June 23, 1925:  " Weather conditions continue hazardous, officials said this morning with relative humidity falling rapidly despite lower temperatures. A temporary lookout has been sent to Fox Butte, while the regular lookout will be there within a few days."  (Klamath Falls Evening Herald)

October 1, 1925:  " H. E. Derrick had the misfortune of falling from a horse and breaking his leg last Friday morning. The horse stumbled in going over some rock and fell with him. Mr. Derrick was taken to Bend right away and is doing well as could be expected. Mr. Derrick who has been lookout on Fox Butte had not gotten his haying done. So all the neighbors gathered Wednesday at the ranch to have a haying bee and put up all his hay while he is in the hospital wondering how it is going to be done. After all we are only just one big happy family."  (Silver Lake Leader)

November 1925:   "H.E. Derrick, lookout on Fox Butte during the past season, got his leg broken last week.  A horse that he was riding fell on it.  B.F. Smith"  (Six Twenty-Six)

August 13, 1926:  
"Helpless to halt the wall of flames which this afternoon march over Fox Butte, destroying the lookout station and nearly trapping the lookout, Arthur Middleton, the Brooks-Scanlon Lumber Co. and the forest service are preparing for a night battle against the conflagration in the Fort Rock district."   (The Bend Bulletin)

August 14, 1926:   "A third fire is sweeping the timbered slopes of Fox butte in the Fort Rock district and already has burned a path five miles long and two miles wide through valuable yellow pine.  The lookout station and telephone lines on the butte were destroyed by the flames late yesterday, forcing the lookout to flee down the opposite side of the mountain.  Officials of the Brooks-Scanlon Lumber company here have dispatched a force of men and supplies to fight this fire."   (Daily Capital Journal)

​August 14, 1926:
  " The Fox Butte fire has burned over 15,000 acres of timber. Some fire fighters have been on the lines for 40 hours without any sleep.
     One hundred and fifty men battled the dangerous Fort Rock blaze through the night. The entire western front of this conflagration is reported under trench.
     The Brooks-Scanlon Lumber company was preparing this afternoon to send fresh men to the fire lines. The attacking army of fighters is now well organized.
     The Fort Rock fire reached its peak Friday, the 12th, when it crowned and raced over the top of Fox Butte, destroying the lookout tower and forcing the lookout to leave the peak."  (The Bend Bulletin)

August 16,1926:  " From the blackened summit of Fox Butte, over which the flames swept over on Friday, destroying the lookout tower, came the report today from the temporary station that a new fire had been spotted in the Fort Rock district, in the summit of the Summit Ranger station. The fire is still small."  (The Bend Bulletin)

August 17, 1926:  " First casualty from the forest fires that swept through Central Oregon in the past few days was reported today when it was made known that Arthur Middleton, forest lookout, is in St. Charles hospital, the result of an injury suffered when on the Fox Butte fire lines.
     Middleton, whose station on Fox Butte was destroyed by flames which raced up the side of the butte, forcing him to leave, was injured when operating a plow. A root flew up striking him in the face.
     The injury consists of a badly bruised and infected eye."  (The Bend Bulletin)

August 18, 1926:   "Acre after acre was devastated.  Once lordly pines, now charred of crown, trunks eaten through by fire, fell with tremendous reports.  A forest lookout, sticking to his post at the summit of Fox butte as long as reports could be transmitted to the central platting station, finally was forced to flee, barely escaping with his life as the flames pursued him down the hillside.
      Scores of men toiled desperately, hour after hour, frequently forced to give ground by the fire which would not be conquered.  Not until the third day did their labors show results.  The Fox butte fire, most terrible in the history of Central Oregon, had at last been put under control."   (The Bend Bulletin)

October 1926:  " This fire season 4 false alarms were reported from this station."  (The Six Twenty-Six)

January 31, 1927:   "When Arthur Middleton, lookout on Fox Butte fled down the side of the mountain ahead of the forest fire last summer he took along an extra collar in a suitcase, it was learned here today.
      The collar just happened to be in the suitcase which Middleton grabbed in passing his cabin.  When a forest fire calls, not even a lookout stands on ceremony.  The story of Middleton's flight down the mountain side came out today when when plans for the rebuilding of the cabin were being discussed by R.L. Fromme, supervisor of the Deschutes National forest.
      Middleton remained in the lookout tower directing the fire fighters by telephone until the fire was almost upon him.  His last message before leaving the tower was 'It's coming fast and I don't mean maybe.'
      Grabbing a suitcase from his cabin at the foot of the tower, he fled with the hope that something of value might be in the suitcase.  It was a vain hope as he found only a collar inside when he had time to open it.
      Middleton after being forced down from the tower took his place with the fire fighters along the line where he suffered injuries to his eyes which made it necessary for him to be in the hospital for nearly two weeks afterwards.  He is a college student, doing lookout duty in the summer vacation.
      Besides the money for the lookout cabin a similar sum, $250, is asked to build a fireman's cabin at the foot of the mountain.  Only a camp has been maintained there in the past, Fromme says.  It is hoped that better service will result from better housing facilities.  It also provides a place in which to keep the tools.
      The lookout tower at Fox butte was not burned.  Two of the supports were burned and the tower itself started to fall.  These supports were spliced and the tower put in condition again soon after the fire."   (The Bend Bulletin)

March 1, 1927:   "Preliminary draft of the money to be used in the Deschutes national forest the coming year for telephone lines, lookout cabin construction and maintenance has been received at the local office.
      Only $50 is allowed this year for telephone construction, with $250 for the construction of the new Fox butte lookout station burned in the big Fox butte fire last summer."   (The Bend Bulletin)

1930:   In September Billy Catlow replaced Lynn Rogers as lookout. Rogers will be going to Michigan State College.  (From notes collected years ago)

1932:   A road was constructed to the top of the butte in the Spring.

1932:   Avon Derrick was the emergency lookout in mid-May.

1932:   Ranger Fenton Whitney is in charge of work on a two and a half mile telephone line up Fox Butte.

September 16, 1932:  " Yesterday afternoon, a small fire blazed in the dry Fort Rock country, but was held to less than quarter of an acre, primarily because of a nearly calm atmosphere. Roy Nettleton, stationed on Fox Butte, was at the fire in about 15 minutes. Four men were sent out from Brooks-Scanlon camp No. 4 and the fire truck was dispatched from Cabin Lake."  (The Bend Bulletin)

June 9, 1933:   "Winds of near-gale velocity, laden with rain, whipped over interior Oregon today.
      The storm halted work on the 80-foot steel lookout tower under construction on Fox Butte in the Deschutes national forest.  So strong was the wind that piers of steel on which the observation house will be erected, swayed violently on the exposed summit of the high butte.
      Fox Butte tower is one of two granted the Deschutes forest.  The other 80-foot tower will be on Trout Creek Butte, in the Sisters district."   (Daily Capital Journal)

June 10, 1933:   "A violent wind and rain storm halted work on an 80-foot steel lookout tower under construction on Fox butte in the Deschutes national forest. The piers of steel on which an observation house will be erected were swaying dangerously in the gale." (The Morning Oregonian)

June 12, 1933:  " On Fox Butte, Ernest Putnam, Pine Mountain lookout for many years, is doing ex officio duty as a fire spotter, while assisting with the construction of the 80 foot steel tower now being built on the Fort Rock peak. Steel for the new tower, on which a lookout nest will be erected, should be in place by tomorrow noon. Later in the season, Putnam will go back to his old station on Pine Mountain."  (The Bend Bulletin)

June 15, 1933:  " The 80-foot steel tower on Fox Butte, highest in the Deschutes National Forest, has been completed and ready for use, reports Howard Phelps, member of the forest service headquarters staff in Bend. The new tower overlooks the eastern part of the Deschutes National Forest, in the Paulina District. The ground house, originally built on another point of Fox Butte, has been moved to the foot of the high tower. Howard Hein of Redmond is to be the Fox Butte lookout this summer. The point is temporarily occupied by Ernest Putnam, who will go to Pine Mountain later in the season."  (The Bend Bulletin)

1933:   The total cost of construction of the lookout was $1,575.51.
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June 23, 1933:   Panorama photos taken.

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1934:   The plan T-1E wood frame 16x18 garage was constructed.

​1936:   In June, hazard sticks, balanced scales and wind recording instruments were installed.
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June 22, 1938:   Panorama photos taken.

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August 18, 1941:  " Heaviest rain of the weekend was reported from the normally dry Fox butte region, on the edge of the high desert. Forest service officials measured a fall of 1.55 inches of rain."  (The Bend Bulletin)

1948:   The gable-roofed lookout house from Sixteen Butte was moved to Fox Butte to replace the original ground cabin that was was moved in 1933 from the west point to be used for the living quarters.

July 23, 1959:   "Officials called it the worst fire in the Deschutes forest since the 1945 Minto Pass fire.
      The fire area was 'bombed' at daybreak today by planes loaded with water and a borate solution.  The Fox Butte lookout station was abandoned during the night as it was in the center of the fire area."   (Corvallis Gazette-Times)

1995:  The lookout duties of East Butte were transferred to Fox Butte.  Upon completion of the new lookout structure on East Butte in 1996, the duties were returned.
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National Geodetic Survey

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DESIGNATION - FOX BUTTE
PID - PB0782
STATE/COUNTY- OR/LAKE
COUNTRY - US
USGS QUAD - FOX BUTTE (1981)

STATION DESCRIPTION

DESCRIBED BY US GEOLOGICAL SURVEY 1966
LOCATED ABOUT 39 MI SE. OF BEND, ABOUT 19 MI SW. OF BROTHERS, 6.5
MI S. OF SAND SPRING. ON TOP OF CINDER HILL CALLED FOX BUTTE.

TO REACH FROM JCT. OF U.S. HWYS. 20 AND 97 AT BEND, DRIVE 21 MI
E. ON U.S. HWY. 20. TURN RIGHT OFF HWY. FOLLOWING MAIN RD. 5.8 MI
S. TO RD. FORK. TAKE LEFT FORK FOLLOWING MAIN RD. 12.9 MI TO SAND
SPRING, CONTINUE STRAIGHT AHEAD 4.3 MI TO RD. FORK, CONTINUE
STRAIGHT AHEAD AS PER SIGN CABIN LAKE GUARD STATION 2.5 MI TO
RD. FORK AND SIGN FOX BUTTE LO. TURN LEFT FOLLOWING RD. 1.5 MI
TO TOP OF CINDER HILL AND STATION.
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