FOREST LOOKOUTS
  • CALIFORNIA
  • Alameda County
    • Crane Ridge
    • Grizzly Peak
  • Alpine County
    • Leviathan Peak
    • Markleeville
    • Mt. Reba
  • Amador County
    • Mt Zion
  • Butte County
    • Bald Mountain
    • Bear Ranch Hill
    • Big Bar Mountain
    • Bloomer Hill
    • Bottle Hill
    • Brush Creek
    • Bull Hill
    • Lone Pine
    • Lookout Mountain
    • Platte Mountain
    • Rackerby
    • Sawmill Peak
    • Sunset Hill
    • Swain Hill
  • Calaveras County
    • Bear Mountain (Fowler)
    • Blue Mountain
    • Devil's Nose
    • Folsom
    • Sierra Vista (Quiggs Mountain)
    • Valley Springs Peak
  • Colusa County
    • Snow Mountain
    • Three Sisters Peak
  • Contra Costa County
    • Mt Diablo
    • Round Top
  • Del Norte County
    • Baldy Peak
    • Bear Basin Butte
    • Buck Mountain
    • Camp Six Mountain
    • High Divide
    • High Dome
    • High Plateau Mountain
    • Little Rattlesnake
    • Lookout Point
    • Monkey Creek Ridge
    • Red Mountain
    • Rock Creek Butte Point
    • Sanger Peak
    • Ship Mountain
    • Stone Corral
    • Summit Valley
    • Upper Coon Mountain
    • Youngs Peak
  • El Dorado County
    • Alder Ridge
    • Angora
    • Armstrong Hill
    • Bald Mountain
    • Baltic Mountain
    • Bayview
    • Big Hill
    • Iron Mountain
    • Jakey's Point
    • Leek Spring Mountain
    • Lookout Mountain
    • Mt Danaher
    • Peavine Ridge
    • Pilot Hill
    • Pine Hill
    • Plummer Ridge
    • Robb's Peak
    • Slate Mountain
  • Fresno County
    • Bald Mountain
    • Bear Mountain
    • Black Mountain
    • Black Mountain (Joaquin)
    • Burrough Mountain
    • Delilah
    • Fence Meadow
    • Hog Mountain
    • Joaquin Murietta
    • Lookout Peak
    • Mount Tom
    • Musick Mountain
    • Owens Mountain (Copper Peak)
    • Sentinel Ridge
    • Stag Dome
    • Weldon Point
  • Glenn County
    • Bidwell Point
    • Black Butte
    • Black Diamond
    • Long Point
    • Red Mountain
    • Sacramento NWR
    • Valley View
  • Humboldt County
    • Big Hill
    • Blake Mountain
    • Brannan Mountain
    • Broad Camp
    • Brush Mountain
    • Burrill Peak
    • Coffee Pot
    • Cold Springs
    • Eightmile
    • Grasshopper Mountain
    • Grouse Mountain
    • Iaqua Buttes
    • Lake Mountain
    • LePerron Peak
    • Mount Lassic
    • Mount Pierce
    • Pratt Mountain
    • Schoolhouse Peak
    • Shelton Butte
    • Somes Mountain
    • Sugar Pine Mountain
    • Trinity Summit
  • Kern County
    • Annette
    • Bald Mountain
    • Blue Mountain
    • Breckenridge Mountain
    • Cook's Peak
    • Grapevine Peak
    • Jasmine
    • Lost Hills
    • McKittrick Summit
    • Oak Flat
    • Piute
    • Sunday Peak
    • Tollgate
    • Wheeler Ridge
  • Kings County
    • Cottonwood Pass
    • Point La Cima
  • Lake County
    • Elk Mountain
    • Garrett Mountain
    • Goat Mountain
    • High Glade
    • Mount Konochi (Wright Mtn)
    • Pacific Point
    • Pine Mountain
    • Pinnacle Rock
    • Potato Hill
    • Sheetiron Mountain
  • Lassen County
    • Antelope Mountain
    • Blacks Ridge
    • Boyd Hill
    • Clover Valley
    • Dow Butte
    • Dyer Mountain
    • Fredonyer
    • Harvey Mountain
    • Hayden Hill
    • Ladder Butte
    • Landon
    • Lava Peak
    • Likely Mountain
    • Observation Peak
    • Pegleg Mountain
    • Seven Lakes Mountain
    • Shaffer Mountain
    • Snag Hill
  • Los Angeles County
    • Arcadia
    • Blue Ridge
    • Bodel Peak
    • Castro Peak
    • Charlie Peak
    • Glendora Station
    • Grass Mountain
    • Highline
    • Josephine Peak
    • Los Pinetos
    • Mendenhall Peak
    • Mount Gleason
    • Mount Islip
    • Mount Lukens
    • Mount Wilson
    • Oat Mountain
    • Pacoima
    • Parker Mountain
    • Pine Mountain
    • Point Dume
    • San Dimas
    • San Gabriel Peak
    • San Jose
    • San Rafael
    • San Vicente Mountain
    • Sawmill Mountain
    • Sierra Palona Peak
    • Slide Mountain
    • South Mount Hawkins
    • Sunset Peak
    • Tejon Mountain
    • Temple
    • Topanga
    • Verdugo
    • Vetter Mountain
    • Warm Springs Mountain
    • Whittaker Peak
    • Zuma
    • Henneger Flat
    • Los Angeles County Fairplex
  • Madera County
    • Castle Peak
    • Deadwood Peak
    • Goat Mountain
    • Red Top
    • Shuteye Peak
  • Marin County
    • Barnabe Mountain (Dickson)
    • Mount Tamalpais (Gardner)
  • Mariposa County
    • Guadalupe
    • Green Mountain
    • Henness Ridge
    • Miami Mountain
    • Penon Blanco Peak
    • Pilot Peak
    • Pinoche Peak
    • Signal Peak (Devils Peak)
    • Trumbull Peak
    • Williams Peak
  • Mendocino County
    • Anthony Peak
    • Cahto Peak
    • Cold Spring Mountain
    • Gualalal Mountain
    • Hull Mountain
    • Hunter Point
    • Iron Peak
    • Lookout Peak
    • Mathison's
    • Mount Sanhedrin
    • Poison Rock
    • Sherwood Peak
    • Spy Rock
    • Two Rock
  • Merced County
    • Barfield
    • Basalt Hill
    • Dickinson Hill
  • Modoc County
    • Blue Mountain
    • Blue Mountain Tree
    • Fox Mountain
    • Happy Camp
    • Lone Pine
    • Mahogany Ridge
    • Manzanita Mountain
    • Sugar Hill
    • Timber Mountain
    • Tulelake NWR (Peninsula)
    • Warren Peak
  • Mono County
    • Bald Mountain
  • Monterey County
    • Anderson Peak
    • Chalk Peak
    • Chews Ridge
    • Cone Peak
    • Junipero Serra
    • Mt. Carmel
    • Mt Toro
    • Pinyon Peak (Sid Ormsbee)
    • Pinyon Peak (US)
    • Plaskett Ridge
    • Semas Mountain
    • Smith Mountain
    • Three Peaks
    • Ventana Double Cone
    • Williams Hill (Calandra)
  • Napa County
    • Berryessa Peak
  • Nevada County
    • Banner Mountain
    • Camel's Hump
    • Cherry Hill
    • Columbia Hill
    • Grouse Ridge
    • Red Mountain
    • Wolf Mountain
  • Orange County
    • Bolero
    • Gilman Peak
    • San Juan
    • Santiago Peak
  • Placer County
    • Bunker Hill
    • Devil's Peak
    • Duncan Peak
    • Hellister Point
    • Howell Hill
    • Martis Peak
    • Mosquito Ridge
    • Stateline
  • Plumas County
    • Argentine Rock
    • Bald Eagle Butte
    • Ben Lomond
    • Black Mountain
    • Camel Peak
    • Claremont Mountain
    • Dixie Mountain
    • Kettle Rock
    • Lexington Hill
    • Mount Ewell
    • Mount Harkness
    • Mount Hough
    • Mount Ingalls
    • Pilot Peak
    • Radio Hill
    • Red Hill
    • Red Rock
    • Smith Peak
    • Spanish Peak
    • Table Mountain
    • Thompson Peak
  • Riverside County
    • Barton Peak
    • Black Mountain
    • Box Springs Mountain
    • Estelle Mountain
    • Ranger Peak
    • Red Mountain
    • Santa Rosa Peak
    • Tahquitz Peak
    • Thomas Mountain
  • San Benito County
    • Call Mountain
    • Fremont Peak
    • Hepsodan
    • North Chalone Peak
    • Sampson Peak
  • San Bernardino County
    • Butler Peak
    • Cajon Mountain
    • Cajon Summit
    • Grass Valley
    • Keller Peak
    • Little Mountain
    • Miller Canyon
    • Morton Peak
    • Mount San Antonio (Old Baldy)
    • Red Hill (Manker)
    • San Sevaine
    • Strawberry Peak
    • Sugarloaf Mountain
    • Tip Top Mountain
  • San Diego County
    • Black Mountain
    • Bottle Peak
    • Boucher Hill
    • Cuyamaca Peak
    • High Point
    • Hot Springs Mountain
    • Los Pinos
    • Lyons Peak
    • Red Mountain
    • Santa Margarita
    • Tecate Peak
    • Woodson Mountain
  • San Luis Obispo County
    • Avenales
    • Bald Mountain..
    • Black Mountain...
    • Branch Mountain
    • Caliente Mountain
    • Cerro Alto
    • Hi Mountain
    • Midway Peak
    • Rocky Butte
  • San Mateo County
    • Allen Peak
    • Mandego Hill
    • Pise Point (Kings Mtn)
  • Santa Barbara County
    • Big Pine Mountain
    • Camuesa Peak
    • Cuyama Peak
    • Figueroa Mountain
    • La Cumbre Peak
    • Los Coches Mountain
    • Madulce Peak
    • Manzanita Mountain
    • McKinley Mountain
    • McPherson Mountain
    • Mount Solomon
    • Salsbury
    • Santa Ynez
    • West Big Pine
    • Zaca Peak
  • Santa Clara County
    • Copernicus Peak
    • Eylar Mountain
    • Loma Prieta
    • Pacheco Peak
  • Santa Cruz County
    • Chalk Mountain
    • Eagle Rock
    • Saratoga Summit
    • Mount Bielawski
  • Shasta County
    • Alamine
    • Backbone Ridge
    • Bear Mountain
    • Burney Mountain
    • Grizzly Peak
    • Hat Creek Rim
    • Hirz Mountain
    • Hogback Mountain
    • Lassen Peak
    • Magee Peak
    • North Fork Mountain
    • Prospect Peak
    • Shirttail Peak
    • Soldier Mountain
    • South Fork Mountain
    • West Prospect Peak
  • Sierra County
    • Alaska Peak
    • Babbitt Peak
    • Calpine Hill
    • Crystal Peak
    • Granite Peak
    • Mills Peak
    • Poverty Hill
    • Saddleback Mountain
    • Sardine Peak
    • Sierra Buttes
    • Verdi Peak
  • Siskiyou County
    • Baldy Mountain (Happy Camp Baldy)
    • Ball Mountain
    • Bear Mountain (Siskiyou)
    • Black Butte
    • Black Fox Mountain
    • Blue Ridge
    • Bolivar
    • Buckhorn Bally
    • Bullion Mountain
    • Cecil Point
    • China Creek
    • Collins Baldy
    • Cottonwood Peak
    • Craggy Peak
    • Deadwood Baldy Peak
    • Denny Point
    • Dry Lake Mountain
    • Duzel Rock
    • Eagle Peak
    • Eagle Rock
    • Eddy Gulch
    • English Peak
    • Gazelle Mountain
    • Herd Peak
    • Hungry Creek
    • Lake Mountain
    • Lakeview Point
    • Little Mount Hoffman
    • Lower Devils Peak
    • Marble Mountain
    • Medicine Mountain
    • Mount Eddy
    • Mt. Bradley
    • Mt. Hebron R.S.
    • Offield Mountain
    • Orleans Mountain
    • Orr Mountain
    • Packers Peak
    • Paradise Craggy
    • Pony Peak
    • Round Mountain
    • Schonchin Butte
    • Slater Butte
    • Sterling Mountain
    • Ukonom Mountain
    • Van Bremmer
    • Windy Peak
  • Sonoma County
    • Big Mountain
    • Hoover (Oak Ridge)
    • Mount Jackson
    • Mount St. Helena
    • Pole Mountain
    • Red Oat Mountain
  • Stanislaus County
    • Mike's Peak (Salado Mtn)
    • Mount Oso
    • Orestimba Peak
  • Tehama County
    • Ball Mountain
    • Ball Rock
    • Beegum Peak
    • Brokeoff Mountain
    • Campellville
    • Colby Mountain
    • Digger Butte
    • Eagle Peak
    • Franklin Point
    • Greasewood Hill
    • Inskip Hill
    • McCarthy Point
    • Tomhead Mountain
    • Turner Mountain
  • Trinity County
    • Backbone Ridge
    • Billy's Peak
    • Black Rock Mountain
    • Bonanza King
    • Bowerman Peak
    • Bully Choop
    • Cabin Peak
    • Cold Springs
    • Dedrick Point
    • Dubakella Mountain
    • Eagle Rock
    • Granite Peak
    • Grizzly Mountain
    • Haman Ridge
    • Hammerhorn Mountain
    • Hayden Roughs
    • Hayfork Bally
    • Hetten Peak
    • Horse Ridge
    • Ironside Mountain
    • Kettenpom Peak
    • Lymedyke Mountain
    • Mad River Rock
    • Mary Blaine Mountain
    • Pickett Peak
    • Plummer Peak
    • Red Mountain
    • Shannon Butte
    • Slate Mountain
    • Virgin Creek Buttes
    • Weaver Bally
  • Tulare County
    • Ash Peak
    • Baker Point
    • Bald mountain
    • Blue Ridge
    • Buck Rock
    • Buena Vista
    • Cahoon Rock
    • Eshom Point
    • Gibbon Peak
    • Jordan Peak
    • Kern Peak
    • King George Peak
    • Little Baldy
    • Lookout Point
    • Milk Ranch Peak
    • Mitchell Peak
    • Mule Peak
    • Paradise Peak
    • Park Ridge
    • Shadequarter
    • Sherman Peak
    • Slate Mountain
    • The Needles
    • Tobias Peak
  • Tuolumne County
    • American Camp
    • Cave Mountain
    • Crandall Peak
    • Crane Flat
    • Darby Knob
    • Duckwall Mountain
    • Elizabeth Mountain
    • Forbay
    • Jones Point
    • Liberty Hill
    • Manzanita Point
    • McCormick
    • North Mountain
    • Pilot Peak
    • Pinecrest Peak
    • Rushing Hill
    • Smith Peak
    • Thompson Peak (Point)
    • Woods Ridge.
  • Ventura County
    • Cobblestone Mountain
    • Frazier Mountain
    • Mount Pinos
    • Nordhoff Peak
    • Reyes Peak
    • Rincon Mountain
    • Santa Paula Peak
    • South Mountain
    • Thorne Point
    • Topa Topa Peak
    • Triunfo
  • Yuba County
    • Oregon Peak
    • Pike County Peak
    • Walsh Mountain
PLUMAS COUNTY

ARGENTINE ROCK

Plumas National Forest
24N-11E-17
September 3, 1936:   "Another road crew, in charge of Frank Church, will resume work on the new road to Argentine Rock which was completed to a point within one mile of that summit last year.
​      The crew will consist of ERA men on relief,"   (Feather River Bulletin)

October 29, 1936:   "The Lumpkin Ridge stub camp has been abandoned, the men having been returned to Brush Creek.  The ERA crew that was building a forest service road to Argentine Rock from Squirrel Creek was moved yesterday to Mohawk."   (Feather River Bulletin)

July 1, 1937:   "A crew of men under Ted Cafferty is constructing a telephone line to Argentine Rock, where a new fire lookout station is to be located."   (Feather River Bulletin)

​August 12, 1937:
  "Argentine Rock, on Grizzly Ridge, has recently been transformed into a lookout station and manned by the Plumas National Forest, according to announcement by D.N. Rogers, supervisor, of Quincy.
      The point overlooks important forests where extensive logging operations of the Feather River Lumber company and Merritt Lumber company are in progress.  A good view is also has into the Middle Fork country near Nelson Point.  Glenn Clark, former lookout on Pilot Peak, is now stationed in the new lookout."   (Indian Valley Record)

September 14, 1937:   "Mrs. G.E. Clark and nephew motored in from Argentine Rock lookout station Saturday morning to shop.  The Clark's are making their home there where he is employed as lookout man by the Forest service,"   (Plumas Independent)

October 7, 1937:   "Mrs. G.E. Clark came to town Saturday morning from Argentine Rock Lookout Station, where the family is residing, to attend to affairs of business and shopping."   (Plumas Independent)

October 14, 1937:
  "Mr. and Mrs. G.E. Clark and family have moved down to their home, coming from Argentine Rock lookout station, where they have been located during the fire season."   (Plumas Independent)

November 11, 1937:  "Argentine Rock, which with use of a temporary structure, was used as a lookout by the Plumas National Forest last summer, is now topped by a modern forest service lookout station.  Construction of the building was completed this week and painting is being rushed to completion.  Argentine Rock overlooks valuable timber stands in Squirrel Creek basin and in the vicinities of Massac, Spring Garden and Sloat, where extensive logging operations are in progress."  (Indian Valley Record)
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November 11, 1937:   "Argentine Rock, some 12 miles east of Quincy, which with the use of a temporary structure, served as a lookout by the Forest Service last summer, is now topped by a modern Forest Service lookout station.  Construction of the building was completed this week and the task of painting is being rushed.  Argentine Rock overlooks valuable timber stands in Squirrel Creek basin and in the vicinities of Massack, Spring Garden and Sloat, where extensive logging operations are in progress."   (Plumas Independent)

​November 18, 1937:
  "Visitors to forest service lookout stations sometimes wonder at the strength of cables or steel rods with which the stations are anchored to the rocky summit on which they stand.
     A demonstration of the need for these heavy anchors occurred a few days ago on Argentine Rock in the Plumas Forest.  A temporary structure, used as a lookout station this year, while a new and modern station was being constructed, it could not withstand even first blast of winter.  A terrific wind, a forerunner of the last storm, caused the temporary structure to be blown from the rock into a nearby ravine.
     A crew sent to Argentine last Saturday to move equipment, reported the depth of snow in that locality to be fourteen to eighteen inches."  (Reno Evening Gazette)

November 18, 1937:   "A building used as a temporary forest fire lookout on Argentine Rock, at the head of Squirrel Creek, was strewn over the mountainside by a high wind Wednesday.  A new station has been built to take its place.  The old building was occupied this summer by Glen Clark."   (Feather River Bulletin)

August 25, 1938:   "Mr and Mrs Glen Clark entertained at dinner Tuesday evening at Argentine Rock Lookout, where Mr Clark is stationed, in honor of their 12th wedding anniversary."   (Feather River Bulletin)

​July 24, 1941:   "Harry Bond, lookout on Argentine Rock, married Miss Norma Pierce of Oakland, Monday, July 21."   (Indian Valley Record)

June 14, 1945:
  "Mrs. Adele Demers left here on Monday to take over her duties as fire guard at the Argentine Lookout Station."   (Feather River Bulletin and Plumas Independent)

October 11, 1945:   "Mrs. Adele Demes was here on Saturday afternoon from the Argentine Lookout Station, where she is stationed as a fire guard.  Mrs. Demes left for San Leandro on Sunday morning, having been called there by the serious illness of her mother."   (Feather River Bulletin)

July 29, 1948:
  "Credited with an unassisted triple play this week a Plumas national forest lookout discovered a forest fire, put the fire out and made the investigation which determined the guilt of the responsible party, and placed the blame at his own door!
      Following is the account of the incident as told by Charley Yates:
      'The wind blows constantly on Argentine Rock, high up on Grizzly ridge.  Charles 'Chuck' Farley, lookout man, a hardy individual, spends a great deal of the time out on the catwalk of his lookout tower absorbing the sun's rays.
      'On this day the wind, cooler than usual during mid afternoon, prompted 'Chuck' to put on his shirt.  In the process of getting arms into sleeves the shirt tail whipped in the breeze and loose matches in the shirt pocket flew in every direction.  This did not concern Farley since he had a full carton in his cabin.
       'But---ten minutes later on his usual routine look-see over the area within vision of Argentine, Lookout Farley discovered a going fire within 50 feet of his station.  One of the matches blown the 50 feet had struck head first on a rock, careening off to and igniting a very small clump of dry grass,
      'Rushing down with a bucket of water 'Chuck drowned the fire and safely corralled it.
      'An extra quarter mile trip down the steep trail for water that evening was the penalty paid by Farley who declares it pays to be careful with matches---and states that on his first trip to town he will invest in a lighter so that he can eliminate matched except for emergency use."   (Portola Reporter)

August 12, 1955:  "Plumas National Forest lookouts not only keep a sharp watch for the start of forest fires, but also keep their eyes open for the sake of personal safety.
     This is the statement of Mrs. Lillie Hitchcock who mans the lookout perched atop Argentine Rock five miles north of Sloat on the crest of Grizzly Ridge.  Starting down the lookout steps last Thursday morning about 10 o'clock for firewood, Mrs. Hitchcock heard one of nature's most blood tingling signals.  It came from a few steps lower where a good sized rattlesnake was in charge of the "right of way."  Mrs. Hitchcock, ready for any emergency, reached back into to her lookout chamber for the 410 shotgun she keeps handy.
     Now, along with the scalps of four porcupines, she has on display a fine set of eight rattles and a button taken from the rattlesnake.
     Mrs. Hitchcock says the porcupine visitors are the most disturbing since they have a special liking for tool handles, washboards and the wood siding of the lookout upon which they enjoy gnawing at all hours of the night.
     Added to Mrs. Hitchcock's thrills in her assignment is the fact that the Argentine Rock lookout building is perched on a cliff, and the northwest catwalk around the building overlooks a sheer drop of 500 feet to the rock side of the canyon below.  Mrs. Hitchcock claims that lookout visitors seem to feel more comfortable on the east side of the building."  (Reno Evening Gazette)

September 22, 1960:   "Mrs. Melba Wisehart of the Argentine lookout reported seeing many bobcats and some cougars around the lookout building recently."   (Indian Valley Record)

May 25, 1967:   "Mrs Jean Rippey of Placerville has advised Mrs. Zanocco by letter that she will again be forest fire lookout on Argentine Rock during the summer."   (Feather River Bulletin)

June 27, 1968:   "Mrs. Jean Rippey, of Lake Spaulding, is again working as a lookout for the U.S. Forest Service at Argentine Rock for the fire season."   (Feather River Bulletin)

September 24, 1970:   "Vernon Roy Challans, 50, of Hawthorne, died of apparent natural causes while visiting Argentine Rock Lookout on Monday.
      Coroner's deputies said that Challans had asked lookout Doris Rippey for a cup of coffee.  He explained to her that he was scouting the area in anticipation of hunting there during deer season, and told her he was feeling ill."   (Feather River Bulletin)

November 2, 1994:   "The Quincy/Greenville Ranger District is seeking public input on a proposal to refurbish the Argentine Lookout.  The Lookout is located in T.24N., R.11E., Section 17, NENE, MDBM.
      The structure is no longer used as a lookout and is slowly falling into a state of disrepair.  The district would like to explore possible ways of restoring the structure and of possible future uses."   (Feather River Bulletin)
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