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  2. List of fire lookout towers - Wikipedia

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    Bear Mountain Fire Lookout Tower, Pennington Co SD still in service 7166' original tower was built in 1910 of logs, replaced with 30' metal tower in 1939 Custer Peak Fire Lookout, Lawrence Co SD, 6713' original wooden tower built in 1911, replaced in 1935 and replaced with the current rock lookout tower in 1941

  3. Azure Mountain - Wikipedia

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    Azure Mountain is a 2,323-foot-tall (708 m) mountain near Blue Mountain Road in the Adirondack Park town of Waverly in Franklin County, New York. Azure Mountain is the site of the Azure Mountain Fire Observation Station, a 35-foot-tall (11 m) steel tower that was built in 1918 and later restored in 2002. The fire tower was listed on the ...

  4. Category:Fire lookout towers in Adirondack Park - Wikipedia

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    Pages in category "Fire lookout towers in Adirondack Park" The following 14 pages are in this category, out of 14 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .

  5. Adirondack Park - Wikipedia

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    From 1916 steel towers were built. At one time or another, there have been fire towers at 57 locations in today's Adirondack Park. The system worked for about 60 years, but has since been replaced by other technologies. Today, 34 towers survive in the region and many have been restored and are accessible to the public. [61]

  6. Lyon Mountain (Clinton County, New York) - Wikipedia

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    A fire lookout station was established in April 1910, without a fire tower, as the summit of Lyon Mountain was bare at that time. In 1917, the New York State Conservation Commission erected a 35-foot-tall (11 m) Aermotor LS40 steel fire lookout tower on the mountain. The tower ceased fire lookout operations at the end of the 1988 fire season.

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  8. Buck Mountain (Long Lake, New York) - Wikipedia

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    Located in Long Lake, New York, the Buck Mountain Fire Observation Station is a 60-foot-tall (18 m) Aermotor LS-40 tower that was erected in the privately owned Whitney Park circa 1933. In 2006, the International Paper Company signed an agreement to sell all its land in the Adirondack Park to Lyme Timber Company for $137 million. On June 21 ...

  9. Adirondack Fire - Wikipedia

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    Exposed rock remains at the peaks of the mountains today. [12] [13] The 1903 fire and smaller subsequent fires in 1908 and 1909 motivated the New York government to allocate more resources to fire prevention, fire detection, and fire fighting in the Adirondacks. Fire towers were built on several mountains in the 1910s to monitor fires.