MINNESOTA LOOKOUTS
DAY LAKE
Itasca County
Chippewa National Forest
Chippewa National Forest
DESIGNATION - DAY LAKE SILVER LOOKOUT TOWER
PID - SJ2067
STATE/COUNTY- MN/ITASCA
COUNTRY - US
USGS QUAD - LITTLE BOWSTRING LAK (1970)
STATION DESCRIPTION
DESCRIBED BY COAST AND GEODETIC SURVEY 1934 (CIA)
POINT OBSERVED UPON IS THE CENTER OF FIRE TOWER LOCATED ABOUT
5.0 MILES EAST OF TRIANGULATION STATION BOW.
STATION WAS NOT VISITED AND NO FURTHER INFORMATION OBTAINED.
THIS STATION WAS OBSERVED UPON FROM FARLEY.
OFFICE NOTE--LETTER FROM U.S. FOREST SERVICE STATES THAT
THIS IS THE DAY LAKE TOWER.
STATION RECOVERY (1947)
RECOVERY NOTE BY COAST AND GEODETIC SURVEY 1947 (OSR)
STATION IS LOCATED ABOUT 19 MILES NORTH NORTH-WEST OF GRAND
RAPIDS, 16 MILES NORTH OF COHASSET AND ABOUT 13 MILES NORTH
NORTHEAST OF DEER RIVER. IT IS ABOUT 100 FT. HIGH, MADE
OF STEEL ANGLE IRON WITH A WOODEN STRUCTURE ON TOP ABOUT
10 FT. SQUARE.
A TRAVERSE CONNECTION WAS MADE TO TRIANGULATION STATION
DAY LAKE. THE DISTANCE WAS 14.545 METERS, 47.72 FT.
TO REACH THE STATION FROM THE JUNCTION OF U.S. HIGHWAY NO
2 AND STATE ROUTE NO 38 IN GRAND RAPIDS, GO NORTH ON STATE
ROUTE NO 38 FOR 20.8 MILES TO A DIM TRACK ROAD LEFT. TURN LEFT
AND GO WEST FOR 0.05 MILE TO STATION AS DESCRIBED.