JORDAN PEAK
Tulare County - Sequoia National Forest - 20S-31E-15
August 23, 1923: Edwin Laney, 86, from Pullman, Wash., set a hiking record when he negotiated the tramp from Camp Nelson, 35 miles east of here, to the top of Jordan Peak, a distance of 12 miles, in an altitude ranging from 4700 to 9000 feet. Ranger Young, stationed at Jordan Peak said that Laney was the oldest person to ever climb the peak." (Oakland Tribune)
October 9, 1923: "Not every hunter that entered the forests of the Sierras came home without killing a deer, according to word that has been received in this city from Fred L. Young, forest lookout at Jordan Peak.
Young reports that during the present deer season forty-one deer have been bagged within a radius of five miles of the peak lookout station; and that twenty-one were taken off Jordan Peak. He also states that his little glass home on the mountain top has had 202 visitors the past summer." (Fresno Bee)
October 26, 1923: "Alarmed at the recent destructive forest fire in the Jordan Peak section, the forest service has recalled Fred L. Young, forest ranger of this city, back to his lookout station on the summit of Jordan Peak." (Santa Cruz Evening News)
September 22, 1927: "John Talley of Springville, who has been the lookout at Jordan Peak this season, has been forced by ill health to drop the work. He has been relieved and has gone to his Springville home for the winter." (Fresno Bee)
June 7, 1932: "Dave Wallace, son of Mr. and Mrs. J.D. Wallace, reports snow 30 feet deep on Jordan peak. Dave is lookout man for that region." (The Bakersfield Californian)
August 16, 1932: "Mr. and Mrs. J.D. Wallace have gone up to the high Sierras to visit their son, Dave, who is lookout man on Jordan Peak. (The Bakersfield Californian)
October 15, 1934: "The Jordan Peak forest fire tower recently completed can be seen from here (Lindsay) with glasses. The new lookout station is located on the summit of Jordan Peak, north of Camp Nelson, and is more than forty miles from Lindsay." (The Los Angeles Times)
August 3, 1939: "A summer home at Camp Nelson belonging to Mrs. James Perkins of Porterville was destroyed by fire early this morning. Neighbors succeeded in keeping the blaze from other buildings.
The fire was seen and reported from the Jordan Peak lookout before it was known at Camp Nelson." (Tulare Advance-Register)
May 21, 1942: "Ray Stevenson, Sequoia National Forest ranger, who headed a party on a reconnaissance trip to the Sierra above Springville, reports a temperature of 20 degrees above zero at Jordan Peak, with such deep accumulations of snow and ice that it was found necessary to postpone work in that region until a later date." (The Fresno Bee The Republican)
July 14, 1954: "Mrs. Emma Stewart, a fire lookout in Sequoia National Forest, reports she was a witness to a demonstration of the strength of the American bald eagle.
She told forest headquarters she saw a huge eagle flying to its nest with a fawn in its talons.
Mrs. Stewart's lookout post is located east of here on 9,000-foot-high Jordan Peak." (Ogden Standard-Examiner - Utah)
September 14, 2020: The lookout destroyed by flames of the SQF Complex Fire.