BUCK MOUNTAIN / BIRCH
Missouri Lookouts - St. Francois County - Missouri Conservation Commission - 34N-5E-7
June 5, 1962: The Conservation Commission acquired 194 acres for the Buck Mountain Tower site. Cost: $970.00. (Missouri Conservation Commission Annual Report FY 1961-62)
Removed
DESIGNATION - BIRCH FIRE TOWER
PID - HC1042
STATE/COUNTY- MO/ST FRANCOIS
COUNTRY - US
USGS QUAD - IRON MOUNTAIN LAKE (1980)
STATION DESCRIPTION
DESCRIBED BY COAST AND GEODETIC SURVEY 1938 (CDM)
POINT OBSERVED UPON WAS THE CENTER OF TOWER OF THE BIRCH
LOOKOUT TOWER. TOWER IS A SMALL STEEL STRUCTURE WITH TUB-LIKE
OBSERVING PLATFORM ON TOP, APPROXIMATELY 60 FEET HIGH, LOCATED
ABOUT 6 MILES NORTHEAST OF IRONTON, 5 MILES NORTH OF HIGHWAY
NO. 70, AND 4 MILES EAST OF TRIANGULATION STATION BUZZARD.
STATION NOT VISITED.
OBSERVED UPON FROM TRIANGULATION STATIONS HIGDON, KNOBLICK,
EVANS MTN.
STATION RECOVERY (1956)
RECOVERY NOTE BY COAST AND GEODETIC SURVEY 1956 (WRH)
THE STATION IS LOCATED ABOUT 10 MILES AIRLINE SOUTHWEST OF
FARMINGTON, 11 MILES AIRLINE EAST SOUTHEAST OF BELLEVIEW IN
THE CLARK NATIONAL FOREST.
THE TOWER IS OF STEEL CONSTRUCTION, 50 FEET HIGH, WITH A 4
FOOT SQUARE CROWS NEST ON TOP. THE CENTER OF THE CROWS NEST
WAS INTERSECTED.