FOREST LOOKOUTS
  • CALIFORNIA
  • Misc. Notes - 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
    • ???? Cragmont Rock
  • 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
    • 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
    • Morton Peak
    • Mount San Antonio (Old Baldy)
    • Red Hill (Manker)
    • San Sevaine
    • Strawberry Peak
    • 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
    • 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
    • Burney Mountain
    • Grizzly Peak
    • Hat Creek Rim
    • Hirz Mountain
    • Lassen Peak
    • Magee Peak
    • Mount Eddy
    • Prospect Peak
    • West Prospect Peak
  • Sierra County
    • Babbitt Peak
    • Calpine Hill
    • Crystal Peak
    • Mills Peak
    • Sardine Peak
    • Sierra Buttes
  • 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
    • Mt. Bradley
    • Mt. Hebron R.S.
    • Offield Mountain
    • Orleans Mountain
    • Orr Mountain
    • Packers Peak
    • Paradise Craggy
    • Round Mountain
    • Schonchin 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
    • 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
    • Cottonwood Pass
    • Eshom Point
    • Gibbon Peak
    • Jordan Peak
    • Kern Peak
    • King George Peak
    • Little Baldy
    • Lookout Point
    • Milk Ranch Peak
    • Mitchell Peak
    • Mule Peak
    • Park Ridge
    • Shadequarter
    • Sherman Peak
    • Slate Mountain
    • The Needles
    • Tobias Peak
  • Tuolumne County
    • American Camp
    • Duckwall Mountain
    • Elizabeth Mountain
    • Pilot Peak
    • Rushing Hill
  • 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
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PLUMAS COUNTY

MOUNT INGALLS

Plumas National Forest

July 27, 1922:   "Forest Officer Albert E. Gould was in town this week from a trip to the government lookout station on the top of Mount Ingalls near Walker Mine, where Ed Merry is employed as lookout."   (The Plumas National-Bulletin)

August 30, 1923:
  "Mt. Ingalls lookout, Joseph Lee, of Redding, was relieved Friday by Jerry Shea, a new man to the Plumas Forest.  Lee returned to his home."   (The Plumas National-Bulletin)

May 22, 1924:   "Wednesday Charles O'Haro took his position on Mount Engles, where he will watch for forest fires this summer."   (Feather River Bulletin)

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September 26, 1924:  "Ed Merry, fire lookout on Mt. Engels, Plumas National Forest, recently had a close call when lightning struck about ten feet from the observatory.  He was knocked down but not seriously injured."  (California District News Letter)

June 18, 1925:   "Mr. and Mrs. Gene Bouchard and children moved over from Susanville last week to go on up to Mt. Engel Lookout Station in a few days."   (Plumas Independent)

June 12, 1930:   "Ed Merry, lookout for the forest service on Mt. Engel, was in town Saturday."   (Feather River Bulletin)

August 21, 1930:   "Ed Merry has resigned his position as forest service lookout at Mt. Ingalls and has moved to Greenville.  He passed three days in Reno attending to business, returning Monday."   (The Plumas National-Bulletin)

June 30, 1932:   "Frank Delaney, ranger in charge of Mohawk Ranger Station, passed through camp Monday morning on his way to Mt. Engles, to open the lookout for the summer and go over the telephones lines."   (Feather River Bulletin)

June 25, 1936:   "Clark Hart has taken his post at the fire lookout on Mt. Ingalls, the highest peak on the Plumas forest, it is reported by W.R. Hawkins, chief fire dispatcher."   (Feather River Bulletin)

July 16, 1936:   "The construction crew now erecting the new forest lookout at Smith Peak will move about Aug. 1 to Mt. Engles, to build a new lookout there.
      The present Mt. Engels lookout is one of the oldest on the Plumas National Forest, according to W. R. Hawkins, chief fire dispatcher."   (Feather River Bulletin)

​July 29, 1938:
 
"An unusual glow in the vicinity of Walker mine gave lookouts on Smith Peak and Mt. Ingalls in the Plumas National Forest a few bad moments one night recently.  Both reported the glow to Chief Fire Dispatcher Keith MacDonald.  MacDonald called Walker mine and got the reply that a soft ball game was in progress aided by floodlights.  "Have the lights flicked on and off a couple times to make sure that is what the lookouts see," requested the dispatcher.  This was done, and the lookout's mystery glow was solved."  (Lassen Advocate - Susanville)

August 5, 1943:   "Mrs. Harry Kelley of this place (Sloat), who has four sons in the service, is now doing her bit, as she left here last Friday for Mt. Engels lookout station, where she will remain until fall when the fire lookouts are no longer necessary.  Her youngest grand son, Frederick Cook of Sacramento, accompanied her and will be with her until he returns to school."   (Plumas Independent)

August 26, 1943:   "Mary Jo Kelly, recently assigned to Mt. Ingalls, is a resident of Sloat."   (Feather River Bulletin)

September 2, 1943:   "Harry Kelley spent Friday at Mt. Ingalls where Mrs. Kelley is stationed at present in the Forest service lookout."   (Plumas Independent)

October 21, 1943:   "Mrs. Harry Kelley returned home from Mt. Ingall lookout station and has gone to Sacramento to stay with her daughter, Mrs. Ethel Cook, who is quite ill at present."   (Plumas Independent)

June 20, 1946:   "Lois Olds, of Yuba City and an artist, has spent three years as a lookout on Mt. Engalls and is back at her station again this year."   (Portola Reporter)

September 30, 1948:   "The Mt. Ingalls lookout station reported the mercury dropped to 10 degrees above zero last weekend."   (Portola Reporter)

August 3, 1960:  "Mount Ingalls was chosen as one of three lookouts in Northern California to have a time lapse camera installed.  This is a cooperative study between the State Forestry Division and the Weather Bureau in conjunction with the use of radar in fire detection.  The lookout operator is instructed to photograph any build up of clouds that they see.  They can't see at night and that's where the radar is especially valuable.
     Eventually, as a result of these observations, it is hoped that fire fighters will warned far enough in advance to move in before fires start."  (Star-News)


September 27, 1962:   "Jim Bailey, who is stationed at the U.S. Forest Service Lookout on Mt. Ingalls, is recovering from minor wounds received the morning deer hunting season opened.
      The injuries occurred when a high velocity bullet fragmented on a post of the catwalk at Mt. Ingalls and struck Bailey in six places.  The lookout remained at his post during this extremely dry season until a replacement could be sent.  He was treated at the Western Pacific hospital and released Sunday.
      Mr. Bailey will not state in exactly what portion of his anatomy most of the fragments lodged, but said he expects to stand up while watching for fires for the next few days.
      There is some suspicion that Mr. Bailey brought this mishap upon himself because of his negative opinion of hunters, their vision and judgment.  He draws cartoons while he is on duty at Mt. Ingalls and had recently completed one which showed a white flag of surrender poked over a rock as hunter's bullets wizzed past, he has not, however been able to devise any protection from shooters who can see horns on the lookout station."   (Portola Reporter)

August 28, 1975:   "Louise Hancock is stationed on Mt. Ingalls (highest point on the Forest."   (Portola Reporter)

September 16, 1976:   "The lookout station on Mt. Ingalls is being closed down, and will not be reopened next year, except in times of emergency such as when lightning is prevalent."   (Portola Reporter) 

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1984:   The structure was disassembled and moved to the Fairgrounds in Quincy.

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Member:  Forest Fire Lookout Association

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