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
  • 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
    • Jones Point
    • Pilot Peak
    • Rushing Hill
    • 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
YUBA COUNTY

PIKE COUNTY PEAK

Plumas National Forest 
September 30, 1913:   "Like some of the wonderful people encountered by the Swiss Family Robinson in their travels, the keeper of the lookout station at Pike's Peak, on the Tahoe National Forest, is a tree dweller, his home day and night being near the top of a tall pine, between 75 and 80 feet from the ground.
      Desiring to locate a lookout station at Pike's Peak and no funds being available for the erection of a tower, the Forest Service officials decided to utilize an immense pine which stands on the crest and overtops all surrounding timber.  Nearly 80 feet from the ground the branches were thinned out and a stout circular platform built entirely around the trunk, it having a width of about 8 feet.  A perpendicular ladder built against the tree extends from the ground to the platform.
      On this aerial lookout a watchman has spent the entire present summer, scanning the sea of timber all about for fires.
      A telephone is installed in the tree, whereby he quickly reports any outbreaks to the main office of the service at Nevada City.  By the aid of the Tahoe Forest map, a copy of which is in each station and at the main office, he is able to give the approximate location of fires in his section.
      From the fact that the lookout station at Banner has a height of 40 feet, it will be realized that the 80 foot tree station at Pike's Peak is considerably up in the air.  When the wind blows it has a vibration which is inclined to make the uninitiated seasick.  Climbing the perpendicular ladder, also is not a task to be lightly undertaken unless you happen to be a sailor or a steeple jack."   (Morning Union)

​August 26, 1921:
  "
We'll Hand it to Lookout Foss.   A fire in the center of Camptonville last week was first discovered by Lookout Foss of the Pike County Lookout.  This fire was between the store of the Meek Mercantile and a garage run by Pauly Brothers Stage Company.  Men working in both places knew nothing about the fire until Guard Sweet, who received the advice from Lookout Foss, arrived on the scene.  The Pike County Lookout is nine miles distant. (Tahoe)"  (California District News Letter)

June 7, 1923:   "May 14 Joseph Shaffer opened the station on Pike County peak.  The fire situation has been very encouraging, to date."   (Feather River Bulletin)

August 16, 1923:   "Fire discovered by tourists, near Forbestown on the west side of the Plumas Forest area, was reported to the fire lookout on Pike County peak at 11:30 0'clock Thursday night.  Quick action on the part of the Forest Service limited the destruction to one acre of property.  The spot burned is twenty-five miles east of Oroville."   (The Plumas National-Bulletin)

October 11, 1923:   "Four lookouts of the Plumas National Forest Service were released this week, but one, Joseph Shaffer, stationed on Pike County Peak in Yuba County, being retained.  He probably will be discharged before next week."   (Feather River Bulletin)

May 22, 1924:   "Joseph Shaffer, of Challenge, will be located on Pike County Peak, during the fire hazard period."   (Feather River Bulletin)

September 30, 1926:   "Ranger Will Hayes went to Pike Peake lookout station recently on Forest Service business."   (The Plumas National-Bulletin)

November 1, 1928:   "The rain Monday night has reduced the fire hazard throughout the county sufficiently so that Forest Supervisor D.N. Rogers called in all fire guards and lookouts Tuesday night, with the exception of the lookout at Challenge on Pike's county peak."   (Feather River Bulletin)

May 19, 1932:   "Four of the fires, occurring in the Challenge district, were of incendiary origin.  A fire guard has been placed on duty and Pikes County Peak Lookout has been manned,"   (Feather River Bulletin)

September 15, 1932:   "Special measures to cope with the situation were taken when it was realized the fires were being set at night.  A night shift was placed on Pike County Peak lookout."   (Feather River Bulletin)
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August 24, 1933:   "Mountain lions are preying on deer in the Pike County Peak area according to reports received here and State Lion Hunter Ledshaw has been requested to go immediately to the Challenge country.
      A large female lion was killed within a short distance of the Plumas national forest lookout station on Pike County Peak on August 19 by Ed Wagner, Indian hunter, from Oregon Hill.  Wagner reports the lioness as having two kittens with her, but that he was unsuccessful in his attempt to capture them.
      William Wall, forest service lookout man, on Pike County Peak, states that he has noticed tracks crossing the road to the lookout on many occasions recently, and believes that there at least three lions in that immediate vicinity."   (Nevada State Journal)

​May 23, 1935:
  "Due to the present fire weather conditions existing through the forest, the lookout on Pike County Peak in the Challenge district was manned May 16.  William Wall has been stationed on Pike County Peak."   (Feather River Bulletin)

April 27, 1939:   "George Cunha has been sent to Pike County Peak lookout."   (Feather River Bulletin)

October 8, 1942:   "Joe Miguel who spent the summer on Pilot Peak as a Forest Service Lookout moved down to Pike County Peak Monday to replace one of the lookouts there who had taken ill."   (Plumas Independent)

November 14, 1946:   "Because of extreme fire hazard, conditions on the Plumas Forest's west side Fire Control Officer Stowell stated fire lookouts were reinstated  last Friday on Pike County Peak near Challenge, and at Big Bar Mountain in the Merrimac District."   (Feather River Bulletin)

August 26, 1948:   "Hauling water to Pike County Peak Lookout yesterday, Fireman Bill Fleming and I were surprised half way up the mountain by a coyote dashing madly across the road a few feet in front of the car.  Not more than 10 feet behind the coyote was a big black tail doe, ears back and flag flying, charging the predator with blood in her eyes, and paying no attention to the oncoming truck.
      The chase continued in view for a hundred yards with that coyote stepping out like greased lightning, turning quickly, dodging, and using every trick to keep the doe from catching him."   (Feather River Bulletin)

1983:  The 20 foot steel tower and cab on Lexington Hill was dismantled and re-erected on Pike County Peak.
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