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  2. Snowy Mountain Fire Observation Station - Wikipedia

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    The Snowy Mountain Fire Observation Station is a 45 feet (14 m) steel-frame fire lookout tower on Snowy Mountain at Indian Lake in the Adirondack Mountains of New York. [2] It was built in 1917 as a 22 feet (6.7 m) prefabricated LS40 tower made by the Aermotor Windmill Company. Following the growth of surrounding trees, four more flights of ...

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

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    Print/export Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... Pages in category "Fire lookout towers in Adirondack Park" The following 14 pages are in this ...

  4. 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.

  5. Black Mountain (Washington County, New York) - Wikipedia

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    In 1918, the Conservation Commission replaced it with a 35-foot-tall (11 m) Aermotor LS40 steel tower. Due to increased use of aerial detection, the tower ceased fire lookout operations at the end of the 1988 fire season. In early 1989, the tower was officially closed by the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation. The tower is ...

  6. Swede Mountain - Wikipedia

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    The first structure built on Swede Mountain was a wooden tower erected by the Conservation Commission in 1912. In 1918, the wood tower was replaced with a 47-foot-tall (14 m) Aermotor LS40 tower. [2] Approaching the Swede Mountain tower. The fire tower was decommissioned for fire watch purposes by New York State in 1968.

  7. 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

  8. Hadley Mountain - Wikipedia

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    The Hadley Mountain Fire Observation Station was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on September 23, 2001 for its role as a Fire lookout tower with the New York State Forest Preserve. [2] Hadley Mountain is the highest of the three peaks that form the West Mountain ridge.

  9. Balsam Lake Mountain Fire Observation Station - Wikipedia

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    Later that year Hinkley became the Balsam Lake Mountain fire tower's last observer as it was closed. [16] Three years later, with the closure of the Red Hill fire tower in the southern Catskills after a brief reopening due to severe drought, the fire tower era ended. [18] The tower remained, its lower flight removed in 1993 to prevent public ...