FOREST LOOKOUTS
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    • Abbott Mountain
    • Allen Peak
    • Allison
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    • Bee Mountain
    • Benson
    • Bethel
    • Big Lake
    • Bismarck
    • Black Mountain
    • Blakely
    • Blue Ridge
    • Boat Mountain
    • Boston Mountain
    • Bowden
    • Box Springs
    • Bradley (98)
    • Buck Knob
    • Bucksnort
    • Bud Hill
    • Buena Vista
    • Buffalo
    • Bull Mountain
    • Bull Shoals Mountain
    • Burlington
    • Cane Creek
    • Casa Mountain
    • Cazort
    • Cedar Cabin
    • Cedar Mountain
    • Center
    • Charlotte
    • Cleveland
    • Coleman (Tree)
    • Cominto
    • Compton
    • Cossatot
    • Cove Mountain
    • (Crossett ?)
    • Crossroads
    • Crystal Mountain
    • Deer
    • Devil's Knob
    • Dobbs Spring
    • Dutch Creek
    • Eagle Mountain
    • Eureka Springs
    • Evans Mountain
    • Fairview
    • Fly Gap
    • Forum
    • Fourche Mountain
    • Freck
    • Gaston Mountain
    • Gillham
    • Glenville
    • Goosepond Mountain
    • Green
    • Guy
    • Hardy
    • Harris Mountain
    • High Peak (Signal #2)
    • Holly Springs
    • Horn
    • Iron Mountain
    • Key Hill
    • Magazine
    • Matney Mountain
    • (McNab ?)
    • Moro
    • Muddy Mountain
    • North Fork Pinnacle
    • Oak Mountain
    • Oakland
    • Omaha
    • Ouachita Pinnacle
    • (Pansy ?)
    • (Pinetree ?)
    • Pinnacle Hill
    • Poison Springs
    • Powell Mountain
    • Push Mountain
    • Rich Mountain
    • Round Hill
    • Round Mountain
    • Rushing
    • (Ruth ?)
    • Stone House
    • Swain Mountain
    • Sugarloaf
    • Tall Peak
    • Tar Kiln
    • Turnpike
    • Tyre
    • Velvet Ridge
    • Wedington Mountain
    • Whiskey Peak
    • White Oak Mountain
    • White Rock Mountain
    • Wilmar
    • (Wilton ?)
    • Wolf Pinnacle
  • ILLINOIS
    • ADEN
    • Atwood Hill
    • Bald Knob
    • Bass Hill
    • Benton
    • Big River State Forest
    • Buzzville
    • Crab Orchard
    • Cypress
    • Deputy Hill
    • Dry Hill
    • Forest Glen Forest Preserve
    • Fountain Bluff
    • Hickory Ridge
    • Hicks
    • High Knob
    • Honey School
    • Lively Grove
    • Massac
    • McCormick
    • Melcher Hill
    • New Orient Mine
    • Pere Marquette State Park
    • Peters Creek
    • Pinckneyrville
    • Raum
    • Royalton
    • Sand Ridge State Forest
    • Shawneetown Hills
    • Trail of Tears
    • Trigg
    • Union Forest
    • Water Valley
    • Williams Hill
  • IOWA
    • Yellow River
  • KANSAS
    • Maxwell wildlife area
  • LOUISIANA
    • Abita Springs
    • Aimwell
    • Antonia
    • Belah
    • Brown Paper Company
    • Calhoun
    • Catahoula
    • Clay
    • Clear Creek
    • Colfax
    • D'Arbonne
    • Fairbanks
    • Gardner
    • Gordon
    • Gum Springs
    • Hilly
    • Hood's Mill
    • Kisatchie
    • Leesville
    • Leland
    • Linville
    • Livingston
    • Longview
    • Longville
    • Luna
    • Meridian
    • Merryville
    • Mosley Hill
    • Mount Pleasant
    • Natchitoches
    • No. 1 (Bogalusa)
    • No 2 (Urania)
    • Paul J. Rainey Wildlife Refuge
    • Peason
    • Red Dirt
    • Sikes
    • Springville
    • Sugartown
    • Turkey Creek
    • Turner
    • Vernon
    • Winona
    • Woodworth
  • MINNESOTA
    • Agassiz
    • Ahren's Hill
    • Alida Hill
    • Alton Heights
    • Anchor Hill
    • Angleworm
    • Argus
    • Arrow
    • Arrowhead
    • Ash River
    • Askov
    • Babbitt
    • Badoura
    • Ball Bluff
    • Bankton
    • Bass Lake
    • Bass Lake (M)
    • Bearskin
    • Beauty Lake
    • Bemidji
    • Ben Draper
    • Big Falls
    • Big Meadows
    • Big Sandy (Lake)
    • Birch Hill
    • Birch Knob
    • Birch Lake
    • Birchdale
    • Black Bay
    • Blueberry Hill
    • Borden Lake
    • Boulder Hill
    • Brainerd
    • Buhl
    • Burns Lake
    • Camp No. 1
    • Carlton Peak
    • Cascade
    • Cass Lake
    • Clear River
    • Cloquet
    • Cloquet Valley
    • Coleraine
    • Cotton
    • Cromwell (Skunk Island)
    • Cuyuna
    • Day Lake
    • Deer Lake
    • DeSoto
    • Devilfish
    • Dixon Lake
    • Dorset
    • Drummond
    • Elba
    • Elephant Lake
    • Eliason
    • Ely
    • Emily
    • Farley Hill
    • Fernburg
    • Grand Marias
    • Gull Lake
    • Gunflint
    • Height of Land
    • Hillview
    • Indian Pines
    • Isle Harbor
    • Itasca State Park
    • Jack Pine
    • Jasper Peak
    • Jay Cooke
    • Jesse Lake
    • Kabekona
    • Kabetogama
    • Kekekabic
    • LaSalle
    • Lima
    • Link Lake
    • Little Mantrap
    • Loman
    • Longville.
    • Ludlow
    • Maple Hill
    • Marble Lake
    • Mille Lacs
    • Mt Maude
    • Nickerson
    • Northwest Angle
    • Palisade
    • Pequaywan Lake
    • Pequot Lakes
    • Pickerel
    • Pike
    • Prosper
    • Rail Prairie
    • Sand Dunes
    • Scenic
    • Schley Ranger Station
    • Sioux River
    • Smoky Hills
    • Spider Lake
    • Spirit Lake
    • St. Croix
    • Sugarbush
    • Sullivan Lake
    • Sumac Hill
    • Summit
    • Toad Mountain
    • Vermillion Dam
    • Waskish
    • Wynn Lake
    • Misc. Notes..
  • MISSOURI
    • Adams
    • Asher
    • August A. Busch
    • Avon
    • Baldridge
    • Baldy
    • Beasley Tree
    • Beaufort
    • Beaver
    • Bee
    • Bell Mountain
    • Big Spring
    • Black
    • Blackjack Knob
    • Bloodland
    • Bloomfield
    • Blue Buck
    • Blue Mountain
    • Blueslip
    • Boone (Daniel)
    • Branch
    • Brandsville
    • Braswell
    • Breeze
    • Briar
    • Brooks
    • Brownfield
    • Brushy
    • Buck Mountain
    • Buick
    • Bunker
    • Bunker's Knob
    • Butts
    • Cabool
    • Camdenton
    • Canaan
    • Caney
    • Cappeln
    • Cascade
    • Cedar Creek
    • Center
    • Centerville
    • Climax Springs
    • Coffman
    • Combs
    • Coon
    • Coot Mountain
    • Corn Creek
    • Cottener
    • Crane
    • Crooked
    • Cub
    • Cut
    • Czar
    • Deer Run
    • Dit
    • Dixon
    • Dogtown
    • Dogwood
    • Doniphan
    • Doniphan Water Tower
    • Dora
    • Drake
    • Dupont
    • Eagle
    • Eastwood
    • Elkhorn (Bethpage)
    • Ellsinore
    • Eminence
    • Eugene
    • F-18
    • Fairview
    • Falcon
    • Faro
    • Flat Rock
    • Flatwoods
    • Floyd
    • Forestry Camp
    • Fort Leonard Wood
    • Fox
    • Freeburg
    • Fremont
    • French
    • French Village
    • Ganter
    • Garwood
    • Gentry
    • Gipsy
    • Goodman
    • Grandin
    • Grassy
    • Grassy Mountain
    • Greenley
    • Gulf
    • Gutherie
    • Hartshorn
    • Hercules
    • Higdon
    • High Hill
    • High Place
    • High Point
    • Highway 60
    • Hilda
    • Hilltop
    • Himont
    • Hollister
    • Horn
    • Horton
    • Houston
    • Hunter
    • Hurricane Deck
    • Indian Trail
    • Jay
    • Jenkins
    • Johnson Mountain
    • Joplin
    • Julian
    • Junction
    • Kaiser
    • Kelleter
    • Keltner
    • Keysville
    • King
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    • Knob Lick
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    • Lanagan
    • Leasburg
    • Lebanon
    • Lenox
    • Libertyville
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    • Lohmer
    • Lone Hill
    • Lone Hill
    • Lone Pine
    • Lonedell
    • Lookout
    • Lost Creek
    • Low Wassie
    • Lutie
    • Lynchburg
    • Macedonia
    • Marcoot
    • Marshfield
    • Mendon
    • Meramec
    • Meta
    • Middle
    • Mineola
    • Montauk
    • Mount Hulda
    • Mountain View
    • Mud Pond Ridge
    • Mudlick Mountain
    • Muilvinia
    • Neosho
    • New Liberty
    • Nottinghill
    • Oak
    • Oates
    • Orchard
    • Old Bartlett
    • Owens
    • Oxly
    • Panther
    • Panther Hill
    • Perry
    • Phillipsburg
    • Pigeon
    • Pike
    • Pilot Knob
    • Pilot Knob
    • Pineview
    • Piney
    • Plad
    • Plots
    • Point (Gibson)
    • Pomona
    • Poplar
    • Possum Trot
    • Potosi
    • Powell
    • Proctor
    • Reeds Spring
    • Reform
    • Refuge
    • Roby
    • Rockwoods
    • Rockview
    • Rocky Mount
    • Rolla Headquarters
    • Romance
    • Rombauer
    • Rosati
    • Rosehill
    • Runge Conservation Center
    • Saunders
    • Sayersbrook Bison Ranch
    • Seever
    • Seymour
    • Shannondale
    • Siloam Springs
    • Sinking Creek
    • Squires
    • Stegall Mountain
    • Sterling
    • Stono Mountain
    • Sugar Camp
    • Sullivan Hill
    • Summersville
    • Sun Ridge
    • Swedeborg
    • Talbert
    • Taum Sauk
    • Tecumseh
    • Texas
    • Thomasville (F)
    • Thomasville (S)
    • Tiff
    • Timber Knob
    • Tram
    • Tribune
    • Turner
    • Tusher
    • Twin Knobs
    • Tywappity
    • Ulman
    • Vada
    • Vichy
    • Vulcan
    • Warrenton
    • Washburn
    • Washington
    • Washington State Park
    • Weldon Springs
    • West Plains
    • Westover
    • Wharton
    • Whitewater
    • Wilderness
    • Williamsville
    • Windy
    • Wolf Mountain
  • OKLAHOMA
    • Bear Mountain
    • Beaver Mountain
    • Big Eagle Mountain
    • Black Fork Mountain
    • Blue Mountain
    • Broken Bow
    • Buffalo Mountain
    • Carnasaw
    • Carter Mountain
    • Cavanal
    • Cloudy
    • Crows Nest
    • Flagpole
    • Flashman
    • Flattop
    • Hee Mountain
    • Jadie
    • Jay
    • Kiamachi
    • Lone Prairie
    • Mount Scott
    • Phillips Mountain
    • Polecat
    • Rose
    • Round Mountain
    • Signal Mountain
    • Sobol
    • Sycamore
    • Tiak
    • Tom
    • Walnut Mountain
    • Winding Stair
  • TEXAS
    • Misc. Notes - Texas
    • Adams Hill
    • Alto
    • Appleby
    • Ariola
    • Arp
    • Barnum
    • Bath
    • Beckville
    • Bird Mountain
    • Bon Wier
    • Bronson
    • Buna
    • Burkeville
    • Cairo Springs
    • Camden
    • Central School
    • Chambers Hill
    • Chester
    • Chireno
    • Chita
    • Church Hill
    • Conroe J.G. Jones State Forest
    • Cushing
    • Cyclone Hill
    • Cypress Lake
    • Daingerfield
    • Deadwood
    • DeKalb
    • Dodge
    • Douglassville
    • Dreka
    • East Mountain
    • East River
    • Elysian Fields
    • Etoile
    • Evadale
    • Fails (Mossy Grove)
    • Farris
    • Fern Lake
    • Fincastle
    • Four Notch
    • Gilmont
    • Grayburg
    • Hallsville
    • Hooks
    • Horton
    • Huntington
    • Hyatt
    • Karnack
    • Kenefick
    • Kirbyville
    • Kountze (early)
    • Kountze
    • Latch
    • Livingston.
    • Love's
    • Lufkin
    • Magnolia
    • Maydelle
    • Moores Grove
    • Moscow
    • Moss Hill
    • Mt. Enterprise
    • Negley
    • Oak Shade
    • Onalaska
    • Ratcliff
    • Risken
    • Rusk
    • Salem
    • Scottsville
    • Shady Grove
    • Soda
    • Splendora
    • Spurger
    • State Forest #1
    • Wakefield
    • Weches
  • WISCONSIN
    • Misc. Notes - Wisconsin
    • Ackley
    • Adams
    • Aniwa
    • Anvil Lake
    • Archibald
    • Bagley
    • Bancroft
    • Barronett
    • Bass Lake.
    • Bayfield
    • Belle Mound
    • Birch Hill.
    • Birchwood
    • Blue Hills
    • Blue Mound
    • Boulder
    • Boulder Lake
    • Bruce Mound
    • Brule
    • Buckeye
    • Carter
    • Cedarville
    • Chetek
    • Connors Lake
    • Consolidated
    • Cranberry Rock
    • Dairyland
    • Danbury
    • Dyracuse
    • Eagle Bluff
    • Elk River
    • Elm City
    • Fifield
    • Flambeau
    • Flambeau Ridge
    • Friendship
    • Fromm
    • Glidden
    • Gordon
    • Greenfield
    • Hiles
    • Hodag
    • Indian Lake
    • Iron River
    • Island Lake
    • Jack Pine
    • Jones Dam
    • Julia
    • Jump River
    • Ladd Creek
    • Ladysmith
    • Lampson
    • Laona
    • Little Switzerland
    • Long Lake
    • Long Mile
    • Lookout Mountain
    • Mellen
    • Middle Inlet
    • Military Hill
    • Monico
    • Morris
    • Mosinee
    • Mountain
    • Necedah
    • Nepco
    • Nettleton
    • Newald
    • North Mound
    • Ogema (Timms Hill)
    • Perkinstown
    • Phillips
    • Pickerel Lake
    • Piehl
    • Pine Lake
    • Pipestone
    • Pleasant Lake
    • Porcupine
    • Quincy Bluff
    • Rock Falls
    • Sand Island
    • Seeley
    • Sentinel Point
    • Seymour
    • South Fork
    • South Pine
    • Smoky Hill
    • Springstead
    • Squirrel Hill
    • Sugar Bush Hill
    • Swen's Bluff
    • Thunder Mtn (Lake)
    • Tigerton
    • Upson
    • Volk Field
    • West Fork
    • Wildcat Mountain
    • Wilson
    • Winter
    • Wisconsin Dells
    • Zenith
  • New Page
MINNESOTA LOOKOUTS

ELY

Saint Louis County
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June 1964:   The lookout tower was dismantled and moved to another location.


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The NGS Data Sheet
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STATION DESCRIPTION

DESCRIBED BY COAST AND GEODETIC SURVEY 1934 (JPL)
JUST SOUTH OF ELY AND APPROXIMATELY AT CENTER OF BASE OF ELY
FIRE LOOKOUT TOWER. TOWER IS 90 FEET HIGH, CONSTRUCTED OF
STEEL AND MAINTAINED BY THE UNITED STATES FOREST SERVICE.
MARKED BY STANDARD STATION DISK IN BEDROCK, STAMPED
ELY L.T. BEARING FROM STATION TO ELY, WATER TANK, IS
N 20 DEG 15 MIN W. AND TO ELY, OLD HIGH SCHOOL CUPOLA,
N 20 DEG 37 MIN E.

STATION RECOVERY (1959)

RECOVERY NOTE BY COAST AND GEODETIC SURVEY 1959 (JAW)
STATION RECOVERED AS DESCRIBED AND FOUND TO BE IN GOOD CONDITION.

TO REACH THE STATION FROM THE INTERSECTION OF SHERIDAN ST. AND
CENTRAL ST. IN ELY, GO S ON CENTRAL ST. (COUNTY ROUTE 21)
FOR 0.95 MILE TO SIDE ROAD LEFT. TURN LEFT AND GO E ON GRAVEL
ROAD FOR 0.15 MILE TO LOOKOUT TOWER ON LEFT AND STATION ON
LEFT APPROXIMATELY AT CENTER OF THE BASE OF THE ELY LOOKOUT
TOWER.
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Member:  Forest Fire Lookout Association

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