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Fire lookout · Boundary County, Idaho

Hogue Mountain Lookout

Kaniksu NF 10-foot L-4 tower near Eastport, built 1937; destroyed 1958 per two sources, though Forest Lookouts lists it only as Removed.

Gone: The lookout no longer stands. Only the site is left. Firelookout.com and Idaho Fire Lookouts date its destruction to 1958; Forest Lookouts lists it only as Removed

Visit & stay

Gone: site only. The lookout no longer stands, so there is nothing to climb or rent.

Access

Access unknown

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Road to the top?
Unknown
Trail
Idaho Fire Lookouts lists the site as hike-in; no source describes what remains or whether it is open to the public

Facts

Status
Gone
Type
Cab on a tower10' L-4 towerThe design: L-4
Built of
Not recorded
Built
1937
Height
Unknown
Elevation
Unknown
Agency
Kaniksu National Forest
Land
Federal land
Location
Boundary County, Idaho
Coordinates
48.98267, −116.19630
Registers
Not on a lookout register
This entry
VerifiedResearched, then checked independently. Updated 10 Oct 2026.
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History

Then and now

  1. 1937 Built10' L-4 tower per firelookout.com and Idaho Fire LookoutsSources: firelookout.com, idahofirelookouts.com
  2. 1938 First staffedGlenn Seeliger, per Idaho Fire Lookouts citing a Bonners Ferry Herald item dated 08/18/1938Source: idahofirelookouts.com
  3. 1944 StaffedBarbara Reuter and Margaret McNamara, per firelookout.comSource: firelookout.com
  4. 1958 Destroyedfirelookout.com 'Destroyed 1958' and Idaho Fire Lookouts '1958 - Destroyed'; Forest Lookouts says only Removed, with no yearSources: firelookout.com, idahofirelookouts.com
  5. TodayGoneThe lookout no longer stands. Only the site is left.

Old maps of this spot

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Story

Researched 10 Oct 2026, fact-checked.

Hogue Mountain's lookout stood about a mile southwest of Eastport in Boundary County, on land in the Kaniksu National Forest.1,2 The site sits at 4,320 feet.1,3

The lookout was a 10-foot L-4 tower, dated 1937 by firelookout.com and Idaho Fire Lookouts.1,3

Idaho Fire Lookouts names Glenn Seeliger as a staffer in 1938, citing a Bonners Ferry Herald item from that August.3 Firelookout.com lists staff from 1944 through 1951, starting with Barbara Reuter and Margaret McNamara in 1944.1

Firelookout.com and Idaho Fire Lookouts both date the tower's destruction to 1958.1,3 Forest Lookouts lists the site as "Removed" and gives no year, so the sources disagree on how the tower ended.2

Idaho Fire Lookouts lists the site as a hike-in.3 No source describes what remains at the site now, or whether it is open to visitors. The Idaho lookout list also marks it as gone.4

  1. Hogue Mtn. Fire Lookout Tower, firelookout.com, https://www.firelookout.com/id/hoguemtn.html (accessed 2026-10-10). ↩
  2. Hogue Mountain, Forest Lookouts, https://idaholookouts.weebly.com/hogue-mountain.html (accessed 2026-10-10). ↩
  3. Hogue Mountain Lookout, Idaho Fire Lookouts, https://www.idahofirelookouts.com/northern-idaho/hogue-mountain-lookout/ (accessed 2026-10-10). ↩
  4. Idaho Lookouts, Forest Fire Lookout Association, https://firelookout.org/lookouts/us/id (accessed 2026-10-10). ↩

Sources

  1. Forest Fire Lookout Association (FFLA) - US lookout lists Gave us: name, location, county, type, status, links Forest Fire Lookout Association (firelookout.org) · No licence stated; facts extracted only, no prose copied. · retrieved 8 Oct 2026
  2. firelookout.com -- Rex Kamstra's Forest Fire Lookout Page Gave us: links firelookout.com · No licence stated on the site; facts only (coordinates, elevation, built/destroyed years, design, agency). Photos mirrored with the site's stated credit. · retrieved 4 Oct 2026
  3. Idaho Fire Lookouts (idahofirelookouts.com) Gave us: dates, links idahofirelookouts.com · No licence stated; facts only (coordinates, status/built/destroyed year parsed from each entry's short excerpt). Thumbnail photos mirrored with credit per the project's photo policy. · retrieved 4 Oct 2026
  4. FOREST LOOKOUTS -- western US (Ron Kemnow's weebly sites) Gave us: agency, ownership, links Ron Kemnow's Forest Lookouts sites (westlookouts, californialookouts, idaholookouts, montanalookouts, oregonlookouts and washingtonlookouts .weebly.com) · No licence stated; facts only (county, land manager, status word, coordinates where the page's own map widget gives them, township-range-section, height and design hints, links). The site's own newspaper quotes, citations and narrative are not reproduced. · retrieved 8 Oct 2026
  5. Firefinder research Gave us: summary, design, status, agency, visiting details, dates, links, fact-check Firefinder research (sources cited in the story footnotes) · Our own research notes; each fact cites its source in the lookout's story

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