TEXAS LOOKOUTS
SPLENDORA BEN MILAM
Montgomery County
Texas Forest Service
Texas Forest Service
DESIGNATION - SPLENDORA BEN MILAM LOT TXFS
PID - BL2215
STATE/COUNTY- TX/MONTGOMERY
COUNTRY - US
USGS QUAD - CUT AND SHOOT (1997)
STATION RECOVERY (1952)
RECOVERY NOTE BY COAST AND GEODETIC SURVEY 1952 (RLE)
THE STATION IS LOCATED ABOUT 13 MILES EAST SOUTHEAST OF CONROE.
IT IS 4-LEGGED STEEL STRUCTURE SET IN A CONCRETE BASE SUPPORTING
THE CAB PROPER. IT HAS AN OVERALL HEIGHT OF 100 FEET AND THE
APEX OF THE CAB WAS THE POINT OBSERVED UPON.
TO REACH THE STATION FROM THE POST OFFICE IN CONROE GO EAST ON
STATE HIGHWAY 105 FOR 2.3 MILES TO THE JUNCTION WITH FARM ROAD
1485 ON THE RIGHT, TURN RIGHT AND GO SOUTHEASTERLY FOR 7.0 MILES
TO A MACADAM ROAD LEFT, TURN LEFT AND FOLLOW MACADAM ROAD EASTERLY
FOR 3.7 MILES TO THE STATION ON THE RIGHT AS DESCRIBED.
PROBABLY THE SAME STATION AS BEN MILAM LOOKOUT TOWER (T.F.S.),
1942.