SISKIYOU COUNTY
HERD PEAK
Klamath National Forest
August 25, 1933: "On August 18 Structural Foreman V. V. McReynolds of Chico and thirteen men from the Sims C. C. C. camp completed the first building constructed under the president's emergency conservation work program. This was the lookout house on Herd Peak which is west of Grass Lake. The job was done in twelve working days." (The Dunsmuir News)
September 7, 1934: "Bernice Manning, 19, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Manning of Dunsmuir, became the bride of Earl J. Fain, 21, of Mount Shasta last Friday night at a pretty lawn wedding at the Mount Shasta home of the groom's parents.
Following the ceremony Mr. and Mrs. Fain were given a kitchen shower by their friends, and received many useful gifts.
At the end of the fire season when the lookout station at Hurd's peak, where Fain is stationed is closed, the couple will come to Dunsmuir to live." (The Dunsmuir News)
Following the ceremony Mr. and Mrs. Fain were given a kitchen shower by their friends, and received many useful gifts.
At the end of the fire season when the lookout station at Hurd's peak, where Fain is stationed is closed, the couple will come to Dunsmuir to live." (The Dunsmuir News)
November 2, 1934: "Mr. and Mrs. E. J. Fain of Herd's Peak lookout station, have moved to Dunmuir to spend the winter." (The Dunsmuir News)
November 2, 1945: "Mrs. Bessie Cates, who had spent the past four and a half months as the lookout on Herd Peak, Mt. Hebron, arrived in Dunsmuir Tuesday, the station now being closed for the winter." (The Dunsmuir News)
May 9, 1947: "Mrs. Bessie Cates arrived in Dunsmuir from Bayles Wednesday to shop for supplies she will need shortly when she leaves for the Forest Service station on Herd Peak near Grass Lake where she will serve as look-out for the summer. This will be the third consecutive year that Mrs. Cates has taken this job at that station." (The Dunsmuir News)
November 7, 1958: "Mrs. Leona Andrus, Macdoel, moved down from Ball Mountain Lookout on October 18 and returned to Herd Peak Lookout on October 27." (Herald and News)
DESIGNATION - HERD LOOKOUT HOUSE
PID - MX0995
STATE/COUNTY- CA/SISKIYOU
COUNTRY - US
USGS QUAD - GRASS LAKE (1986)
STATION DESCRIPTION
DESCRIBED BY COAST AND GEODETIC SURVEY 1952 (WRH)
THE STATION IS LOCATED ABOUT 14 MILES AIRLINE NORTHEAST OF
WEED, AND 3 MILES SOUTHWEST OF THE GRASS LAKE RAILROAD SIDING,
ON THE HIGH SOUTHWESTERN PART OF HERD MOUNTAIN.
THE LOOKOUT HOUSE IS A STANDARD FOREST SERVICE 14 X 14 FEET
SQUARE SINGLE STORY LOOKOUT HOUSE ABOUT 15 FEET HIGH. IT IS
26.576 FEET, 8.100 METERS EAST OF STATION HERD. THE CENTER
OF THE HOUSE WAS INTERSECTED.