GRANDIN
Missouri Lookouts - Ripley County - Missouri Conservation Commission - 25N-3E-34
FY 1949-50: 160 acres acquired for a towersite. (Annual Report of the Missouri Department of Conservation)
1951: A 100-foot steel tower erected.
FY1956-57: "Major repairs were made to the Grandin tower." (Missouri Conservation Commission Annual Report FY 1956-57)
STATION DESCRIPTION
DESCRIBED BY COAST AND GEODETIC SURVEY 1957 (OSR)
THE STATION IS ABOUT 12 MILES NORTHEAST OF DONIPHAN, 7-1/2 MILES
SOUTHEAST OF GRANDIN AND 2-3/4 MILES SOUTH OF THE CARTER-RIPLEY
COUNTY LINE, IN THE SOUTHWEST QUARTER OF SECTION 34, T25N, R3E.
THE LOOKOUT HOUSE IS SUPPORTED BY FOUR WOOD LEGS AND IS 70 FEET
IN HEIGHT. A MEASUREMENT WAS MADE FROM TRIANGULATION STATION
GRANDIN TO THE CENTER OF THE BASE OF THE LOOKOUT TOWER AND THE
DISTANCE WAS FOUND TO BE 59.23 FEET AND/OR 18.054 METERS
NORTHEAST OF THE MARK.