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Fire lookout · Lincoln County, Montana

Davis Peak

Kootenai NF 40-foot pole L-4 tower dated 1946 in Lincoln County, MT; listed gone by 1956. No source describes what remains at the site.

Gone: The lookout no longer stands. Only the site is left. Listed as gone by 1956; no source describes what, if anything, remains at the site

Visit & stay

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

Access

Access unknown

We do not know the access rules. Check with the land manager before you go.

Road to the top?
Unknown

Facts

Status
Gone
Type
Cab on a tower40-foot pole L-4 towerThe design: L-4
Built of
Not recorded
Built
1946
Height
Unknown
Elevation
Unknown
Agency
Kootenai National Forest
Land
Unknown
Location
Lincoln County, Montana
Coordinates
47.97590, −115.17933
Registers
Not on a lookout register
This entry
VerifiedResearched, then checked independently. Updated 10 Oct 2026.
Firefinder id
us-mt-davis-peak

View from the cab

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History

Then and now

  1. 1946 BuiltDated 1946 in the firelookout.com listing; no construction account foundSource: firelookout.com
  2. 1956 RemovedListed as gone in 1956; the listing does not say howSource: firelookout.com
  3. TodayGoneThe lookout no longer stands. Only the site is left.

Old maps of this spot

USGS topographic maps from the years a lookout stood may show it, often as a small symbol labelled “Lookout”. See the old topo maps around it on the Firefinder map, or find every scanned sheet of this spot on USGS TopoView (click the spot there to list them, with dates and downloads).

Story

Researched 10 Oct 2026, fact-checked.

The Davis Peak lookout was a 40-foot pole tower, which the listing calls an L-4 type and dates to 1946.1 It stood on the Kootenai National Forest, about six miles southwest of Thompson Lake in Lincoln County, Montana, at an elevation of 5,340 feet.1

The Forest Fire Lookout Association's list of Montana lookouts places the tower in Lincoln County and marks it as gone.2 The one detailed listing we read says the tower was gone by 1956, and it does not say how the tower came to be removed.1

Today, no source we read describes what, if anything, remains at the site. We also found no source on whether the ground is open to visitors, so ask the Kootenai National Forest before going to look for it.

  1. Davis Peak Fire Lookout Tower, firelookout.com, https://www.firelookout.com/mt/davispeak.html (accessed 2026-10-10). ↩
  2. Montana Lookouts, Forest Fire Lookout Association, https://firelookout.org/lookouts/us/mt/ (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. Firefinder research Gave us: summary, design, status, agency, 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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