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Washington was once home to hundreds of fire lookouts — great towers that would stand above the trees, offering 360-degree views of the surrounding wilderness. The towers were used by spotters ...
Summit Ridge Fire Lookout, 6,082', 67.5' tower, last staffed in 1972. Rankin Ridge Fire Lookout, Wind Cave National Park, replaced the Crow's Nest Peak tower, 5,013'. Mt Coolidge Fire Lookout Custer State Park still in service. Battle Mountain Fire Lookout, Hot Springs, SD, Fall River Co, 4,363', 22' tower.
Beyazıt Tower, an 85-meter-tall (279 ft) fire lookout tower at Beyazıt Square in Istanbul. A fire lookout tower, fire tower, or lookout tower is a tower that provides housing and protection for a person known as a "fire lookout", whose duty it is to search for wildfires in the wilderness. It is a small building, usually on the summit of a ...
In order to aid its efforts in wildland fire suppression and fire protection, the New Jersey Forest Fire Service operates a system of 21 fire towers at locations throughout the state of New Jersey in the United States. [2] From these fire towers, using an instrument called the Osborne Fire Finder, or an alidade, and topographical maps, trained ...
Nearly 1,000 fire lookout stations were erected in Idaho. Less than 200 still stand, but many are within driving distance of Boise. Get a 360-degree view of Idaho from these fire lookout towers. 5 ...
SPRR fire lookout station built in 1909 on Red Mountain above Cisco, CA. (abandoned 1934) A fire lookout (sometimes also called a fire watcher) is a person assigned the duty to look for fire from atop a building known as a fire lookout tower. These towers are used in remote areas, normally on mountain tops with high elevation and a good view of ...
Fire lookout towers in New York (state) (3 C, 2 P) Fire lookout towers in North Carolina (1 P) O. Fire lookout towers in Oregon (6 P) P.
Can be seen on Google Street View here . Bolinger Lookout Tower. Bossier. Bolinger. 32°56′29″N 93°43′52″W. / 32.94139°N 93.73111°W / 32.94139; -93.73111 ( Bolinger Lookout Tower) Torn down. Appears on 1984 revision of 1955 map, disappears on 1981 version of the map. Unable to find aerial imagery.