FOREST LOOKOUTS
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  • ALASKA
  • ARIZONA
    • Antelope Mountain
    • Apache Maid
    • Atascosa Mountain
    • Aztec Peak
    • Baboquivari
    • Baker Butte
    • Barfoot
    • Bear Mountain
    • Big Lake Knoll
    • Big Springs
    • Bill Williams Mountain
    • Black Pinnacle
    • Black Rock
    • Blue
    • Blue Ridge..
    • Blue Ridge C
    • Blue Ridge Tree
    • Bonita Rock
    • Bright Angel Point
    • Buck Mountain
    • Buckskin
    • Cerro Gordo
    • Chedeski Peak
    • Chevelon Butte
    • Clark Peak
    • Colcord Mountain - 1
    • Colcord Mountain - 2
    • Cooper Ridge - Tree
    • Corral Lake - Tree
    • Deadman
    • Deer Springs
    • Derby Mine
    • Diamond Point
    • Dry Lake
    • Dry Park
    • Dutch Joe
    • East Pocket
    • Edwards
    • Escudilla
    • Faught Ridge
    • Ferndell
    • Fluted Rock
    • Fly Peak
    • Fracas (tree)
    • Grandview
    • Greens Peak
    • Hopi Point
    • Huachuca Peak
    • Hyde Mountain
    • Jacob Lake
    • Juniper Ridge
    • Kendrick Peak
    • Lemmon Rock
    • Limestone
    • Madera Peak
    • Maverick Mountain
    • McFadden Peak
    • Miller Peak
    • Mingus Mountain
    • Monte Vista
    • Morman Lake
    • Mount Baldy
    • Mount Bigelow
    • Mount Eldon
    • Mount Lemmon
    • Mount Union
    • North Rim
    • O'Leary Peak
    • Pat Knoll
    • Promontory Butte
    • Red Butte
    • Rose Peak
    • San Francisco Peaks
    • Soldier Camp
    • Spruce Mountain
    • Spud Rock
    • Sugarloaf Mountain
    • Summit Mountain
    • Tower Mountain
    • Volunteer Mountain
    • Webb Peak
    • Woody Mountain
  • COLORADO
    • Air Force Academy
    • Alta Mine
    • Archuleta Mesa
    • Badger Mountain
    • Baldy Mountain..
    • Bears Ears
    • Beaver Mountain
    • Benchmark
    • Blue Mountain
    • Burnett Mine
    • Burro Peak
    • Castle Peak
    • Chapin Mesa
    • Cheyenne Mountain
    • Chimney Rock
    • Crown Point
    • Deadman
    • Devil Mountain
    • Devil's Head
    • Eagles Nest
    • Eightmile Mesa
    • Fairview Peak
    • Fire Station #4 (Colorado Springs)
    • Glade Mountain
    • Hahns Peak
    • Jersey Jim
    • Lands End Point
    • Leadville Postoffice
    • Leon Peak
    • Longs Peak
    • Lookout Mountain
    • Lookout Mountain
    • Lookout Mountain
    • Midland Hill
    • Monarch Peak
    • Mount Ethel
    • Narraguinnep
    • Owl Mountain
    • Park Point
    • Parkview
    • Pike's Peak
    • Prohibition Mountain
    • Round Top
    • Sandoval Mesa
    • Shadow Mountain
    • Sleepy Cat Mountain
    • Soda Point
    • Squaw Mountain
    • Sugarloaf
    • Thorodin
    • Twin Sisters
    • Walden
    • West White Pine
    • Whites Mesa
    • Williams Peak
    • Zenobia
  • NEBRASKA
    • Crescent Lake (North)
    • Crescent Lake (South)
    • Fort Niobrara NWR (Big Beaver Creek)
    • Fort Niobrara NWR (Headquarters)
    • Eagle Point
    • Scott's
    • Valentine NWR (Hackberry)
    • Valentine NWR (Pony Lake)
    • Winnebago
  • NEW MEXICO
    • Alamo Peak
    • Armstrong
    • Atole
    • Bandelier
    • Barillis Peak
    • Bearhead
    • Bearwallow
    • Black Mountain
    • Block (Smokey Bear)
    • Blue Mountain
    • Bluewater
    • Boiler Peak
    • Bosque Peak
    • Brushy
    • Canjilon
    • Capilla Peak
    • Carracas
    • Carrissa
    • Cedar Springs
    • Cedro Peak
    • Cerro Pelado
    • Cerro Valdez
    • Cienegita
    • Clara Peak
    • Dark Canyon
    • Davenport
    • Deadmans Peak
    • Diamond Peak
    • Eagle Peak
    • El Caso
    • El Morro
    • Encino
    • Five Mile
    • Fox Mountain
    • Gallinas Peak
    • Gavilan Ridge
    • Glorieta Baldy
    • Granite Peak
    • Grass Mountain
    • Grassy Mountain
    • Grouse Mountain
    • Harley Mountain
    • Hermit Peak
    • Highland Park
    • Hillsboro Peak
    • Isleta
    • James Ridge
    • Jicarita Peak
    • Joaquin
    • John Kerr
    • Kiowa Mountain
    • La Mosca Peak
    • Lake Peak
    • Lookout Mountain (Cibola)
    • Lookout Mountain (Gila)
    • Lookout Mountain (Lincoln)
    • Luera Peak
    • Magdalena mountains (N.M. Tech)
    • Mangas
    • Manzano
    • Mayhill
    • McGaffey
    • Mesa de Cuba
    • Mogollon Baldy
    • Monjeau
    • Mount Powell
    • Mount Sedgwick
    • Mount Taylor
    • Mount Withington
    • Mud Spring
    • Negrito Mountain
    • NOGAL
    • Osborne
    • Oscujra Peak
    • Oso Ridge
    • Parjarita Mountain
    • Picuris
    • Pine Lodge
    • Rabbit Mountain
    • Red Top
    • Reed's Peak
    • Rosilla
    • Ruidoso
    • Sacramento Peak
    • Saddle Mountain
    • San Antonio
    • San Mateo
    • Sierra Blanca
    • Signal Peak
    • Silver
    • South Baldy
    • The Dome
    • Tohatchi
    • Tohnitsha
    • Turkey
    • Tuscon Mountain
    • Wagontongue
    • Washington Pass
    • Weed Ranger Station
    • Wells
    • White's Peak
    • Whitewater Baldy
    • Wirt
    • Wofford
    • General and Misc., New Mexico
  • NEVADA
    • Ella Mountain
    • Fire Sciences Academy
    • McClellan Peak
    • Peavine Mountain
    • Yellow Peak
    • Zephyr Point
    • Alert (Tahoe)
  • NORTH DAKOTA
  • SOUTH DAKOTA
    • Battle Mountain
    • Bear Mountain
    • Boulder Hill
    • Castle Peak
    • Cicero Peak
    • Crows Nest Peak
    • Custer Peak
    • Elk Mountain
    • Flag Mountain
    • Harney Peak
    • LaCreek NWR
    • Lakota Peak
    • Lookout Peak
    • Medicine Butte
    • Moon
    • Mount Coolidge
    • Norris Peak
    • Parker Peak
    • Pilger Mountain
    • Porcupine Butte
    • Rankin Ridge
    • Sand Lake NWR #1
    • Sand Lake NWR #2
    • Seth Bullock
    • Signal Hill
    • South Tower
    • Summit Ridge
    • Terry Peak
    • Veterans
    • Waubay (NWR)
  • UTAH
    • Bald Mountain
    • Bear River M.B.R. (Headquarters)
    • Bear River M.B.R. (Perry Entrance)
    • Brian Head
    • Ensign Peak
    • Hardinger Firetree (Beef tree)
    • Horse Valley Peak
    • Lake Fork Mountain
    • Lava Point
    • Meadow Creek Peak
    • Mt Terrel
    • Ogden Ordinance Depot
    • Mt Timpanogos
    • Salt Lake City (Walker Bank Bldg)
    • Tooele Army Depot
    • Ute Mountain
    • Whipple Peak
    • Wolf Creek Peak
  • WYOMING
    • Bald Mountain
    • Bald Mountain (Big Piney)
    • Baldy Mountain
    • Barrett Ridge
    • Bayer Mountain
    • Bechler
    • Big Game Ridge
    • Black Mountain (Big Horn)
    • Black Mountain (Medicine Bow)
    • Blackhall Mountain
    • Blacktail Butte
    • Blondy Pass
    • Blue Ridge
    • Bow
    • Bradley Mountain
    • Bridger Peak
    • Bunsen Peak
    • Cabin Creek Peak
    • Cement Ridge
    • Clay Butte
    • Clayton Mountain
    • Crow Peak
    • Crow's Nest
    • Dead Indian
    • Deadline Ridge
    • Deadman Mountain
    • Deer Creek Mountain
    • Divide
    • Elk Mountain
    • Elk Peak
    • Esterbrook Hill
    • Fletcher Park
    • Forellen Peak
    • Hawks Rest
    • High Park
    • Homestake
    • Hominy Peak
    • Horseshoe mountain
    • Huckleberry Mountain
    • Hunters Mesa
    • Hunters Peak
    • Jay's Roost
    • Jelm Mountain
    • Kennaday Peak
    • Little Sheep Mountain
    • Lookout Mountain
    • Medicine Bow Peak
    • Monument Ridge
    • Mount Chittenden
    • Mount Holmes
    • Mount Pisgah
    • Mount Sheridan
    • Mount Washburn
    • Munger Mointain
    • Observation Peak
    • Pelican Cone
    • Pinnacle Butte
    • Prospect Peak
    • Red Cloud
    • Seven Mile
    • Sheep Mountain
    • Signal Mountain
    • Slash Ridge
    • Snake River
    • Somber Hill
    • Spalding
    • Spruce Mountain
    • Steamboat Point
    • Two-Ocean Plateau
    • Warm Springs
    • Warren Peaks
    • Wendy Mountain
    • Willow Creek
    • Windy Mountain
    • Wyoming Peak

OSO RIDGE

New Mexico - Cibola County - Cibola National Forest - 9N-12W-4
June 4, 1933:   "A government airways beacon tower on the continental divide, at Oso Ridge, N.M., is being made to serve as a fire lookout station at a substantial saving to the Forest Service, Supervisor John Adams of the Cibola forest said Saturday.
     A cabin for the lookout men is to be built soon, and bids for its construction will be opened by the Cibola office June 8." (Albuquerque Journal)

June 30, 1934:  "Inexperience in mountain flying was believed responsible by local pilots for the airplane crash on the Oso Ridge near the continental divide, 23 miles south of Grant, Friday morning, in which Thuric M. Ellis, 28, veteran pilot from Auburn, Maine, was killed and Edward Thaw, 25, Milton, Mass., student flyer, thought to be at the controls of the ship at the time of the wreck, received such serious injuries that he died late Friday night in an Albuquerque hospital.  Thaw never regained consciousness.
     The crash was witnessed by Sam Taylor, fire lookout on Oso Ridge.  He said he first saw the ship gliding down toward an open patch of ground with the motor dead at 9:55 Friday morning.  It suddenly dipped into the ground and hit on its nose, he said.
     Taylor rushed to the scene and gave first aid to the two men.  He called help from Grant by telephone, but Ellis died before reaching that town, as rough mountain roads slowed the progress of the car in which they were being carried."  (Albuquerque Journal)

August 9, 1934:   "A crew of 15 men started work early this month on construction of a forestry road to lead from the Oso powerhouse to the Oso lookout, a distance of about two and a half miles, Forest Ranger J.H. Mims announced."  (Gallop Independent and Evening Herald)

December 24, 1936: 
  "Cooperating with the Department of Commerce, the Forest Service now ubdertakes to be 'watchman' for the airplane beacon atop Cedro Peak, it was announced Wednesday by O. Fred Arthur, superintendent of the Cibola Forest.
      The revolving beacon is not attached to the fire lookout tower and the duplex power plant that serves the light automatically has been moved from a point near the foot of the peak to the top."   (Albuquerque Journal)

June 25, 1939:   "It was believed lightning started the fire during an electrical storm in the area three days ago, that the fire gained headway because of the extreme dryness of the forest.  The Forest Service recently placed emergency lookout guards at Oso Ridge and on Mount Sedgewick."   (Albuquerque Journal)

July 3, 1944:  "Two young women have lonely but important jobs as fire 'lookouts' in rugged, mountainous forest in the wilds of New Mexico, guarding against fire timber badly needed by Uncle Sam in the war effort.
     At the Oso ridge fire lookout, 8,620 feet high in the Cibola national forest 25 miles southwest of Grants.  Mrs. Orby Swatzell perches in a cabin part-way up an airway beacon tower and scans the horizon for the white puff of smoke which spells danger in timber land.
     Mrs. Swatzell got her job when her husband, hired as lookout, was rejected because of poor eyesight.
     Mrs. Dick Clawson, the other feminine fire-fighter, is serving her second season as lookout in the Zuni Indian country at McCaffery."  (Los Cruces Sun-News)

May 3, 1947:   "Three fire lookouts are now manned in the Cibola forest area and three more will be staffed by May 15.  The Oso lookout has William J. Porter on duty."   (The Gallup Independent)

1965:  A CL-100 Series all steel lookout cab was constructed on a 10-foot cinder block base that serves as a storage room.  (Source "Lookouts of the Southwestern Region,"  USFS)
NATIONAL HISTORIC LOOKOUT REGISTER
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