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Fire lookout · Granite County, Montana

Harvey Point

Also known as Harvey PO

Granite County tower on the Lolo National Forest, built 1934 with an L-4 cab; the cab was moved in 1949 as a maintenance cabin; tower gone; no source describes the site today.

Gone: The lookout no longer stands. Only the site is left. Firelookout.com lists the tower as gone; the Weebly list marks it removed; the 1949 cab move is the only later event in the sources

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

Facts

Status
Gone
Type
Cab on a tower20-foot pole L-4 towerThe design: L-4
Built of
Not recorded
Built
1934
Height
Unknown
Elevation
Unknown
Agency
Lolo National Forest
Land
Unknown
Location
Granite County, Montana
Coordinates
46.61505, −113.39605
Registers
Not on a lookout register
This entry
VerifiedResearched, then checked independently. Updated 10 Oct 2026.
Firefinder id
us-mt-harvey-point

View from the cab

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History

Then and now

  1. 1934 Built20-foot pole L-4 towerSource: firelookout.com
  2. No record between 1934 and 1949
  3. 1949 MovedCab moved to T10N R5W section 25 NE as a maintenance cabinSource: firelookout.com
  4. TodayGoneThe lookout no longer stands. Only the site is left. When it came down is not recorded.

Old maps of this spot

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Story

Researched 10 Oct 2026, fact-checked.

Harvey Point is a lookout site in Granite County, on the Lolo National Forest.1,2 Firelookout.com lists a 20-foot pole L-4 tower there, built in 1934.1 The L-4 was a prefabricated 14-by-14-foot lookout house, built from 1929 on.3

In 1949 the cab was moved to the northeast quarter of section 25, township 10 north, range 5 west, where it became a maintenance cabin.1 The Forest Lookouts Granite County list places the Harvey Point entry at township 10 north, range 14 west, section 17.2 The two township and range figures appear to describe the tower site and the cab's later site, but the sources do not say so outright.1,2

The Forest Fire Lookout Association lists Harvey Point as a gone tower.4

Sources do not say whether the moved maintenance cabin still stands, and none describes what remains at the tower site. No source describes the site today, so a visitor should not count on finding anything there or on access.

  1. Harvey Point Fire Lookout Tower, firelookout.com, https://www.firelookout.com/mt/harveypoint.html (accessed 2026-10-10). ↩
  2. Granite County, Forest Lookouts, montanalookouts.weebly.com, https://montanalookouts.weebly.com/granite-county.html (accessed 2026-10-10). ↩
  3. Forest Fire Lookout Tower Photos (lookout type definitions), firelookout.com, http://www.firelookout.com/lktpix.html (accessed 2026-10-10). ↩
  4. 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. FOREST LOOKOUTS -- western US (Ron Kemnow's weebly sites) Gave us: 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
  4. 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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