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Fire lookout · Coos County, Oregon

Anderson Lookout Site

Also known as Anderson Mountain

Coos County, OR tower near Bridge; 1933 build (60 ft per newspaper, 40 ft per register); abandoned 1955, removed or destroyed 1956; no source describes the site today.

Gone: The lookout no longer stands. Only the site is left. Abandoned in 1955 and removed or destroyed in 1956; no source describes the site today

Visit & stay

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

Access

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Road to the top?
Unknown

Facts

Status
Gone
Type
Cab on a tower40' pole L-4 tower per the register and firelookout.com; a 1933 newspaper describes a 60-foot tower with a cabin on topThe design: L-4
Built of
Wood
Built
1933
Height
60 ft (18.3 m)
Elevation
1,401 ft (427 m)
Agency
Coos FPA
Land
Unknown
Location
Coos County, Oregon
Coordinates
43.03916, −124.01287
This entry
VerifiedResearched, then checked independently. Updated 9 Oct 2026.
Firefinder id
us-or-anderson

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History

Then and now

  1. 1929 EventCoos Bay Times (July 12, 1929): primary lookout station near Bridge completed that spring; Myrtle Point Herald (Apr 11, 1929): Forest Service to erect a lookout that summer. The sources do not say whether a tower stood in 1929Source: oregonlookouts.weebly.com
  2. 1933 BuiltTower built in 1933; 60 feet per the 1933 newspaper, 40-foot pole L-4 per the register and firelookout.com (see resolved_conflicts)Sources: firetower.org, firelookout.com, oregonlookouts.weebly.com
  3. 1935 StaffedLloyd Jarvis, lookout on Anderson Mountain (Oct 11, 1935 item)Source: oregonlookouts.weebly.com
  4. 1937 StaffedBob King on the station during the 1937 fire seasonSource: oregonlookouts.weebly.com
  5. 1938 StaffedBob King assigned to the station by the Coos Fire Patrol (June 15, 1938 item)Source: oregonlookouts.weebly.com
  6. 1941 StaffedWilliam Huff left his Albany job and reported for duty at his summer lookout post (Nov 1, 1941 item)Source: oregonlookouts.weebly.com
  7. 1955 AbandonedStation abandoned because of rotting timbers in the tower (Coos Bay Times, July 13, 1955)Source: oregonlookouts.weebly.com
  8. 1956 RemovedRegister says removed; firelookout.com says destroyedSources: firetower.org, firelookout.com
  9. No record between 1956 and 2010
  10. 2010 Added to the Former Fire Lookout Sites RegisterRegistered November 17, 2010Source: firetower.org
  11. 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 9 Oct 2026, fact-checked.

Anderson Mountain rises about seven miles east of Myrtle Point, in Coos County, Oregon, at roughly 1,401 feet.1,2

The Coos Bay Times reported in July 1929 that the primary lookout station near Bridge had been completed that spring.3 An April 1929 item had said a lookout would be erected on the mountain that summer.3 In 1933 a crew of 20 men was building a 60-foot tower there, and a September 1933 report gave each lookout a height of 60 feet, with a cabin on top.3 The register and firelookout.com instead describe a 40-foot pole L-4 tower built in 1933.1,2 The sources disagree on the height.

The papers name a few of the people who worked the station. Lloyd Jarvis was the lookout in 1935.3 Bob King worked the station in the 1937 fire season and was assigned there again in 1938.3 In 1941 William Huff left his job at Albany to report for duty, then faced a two-mile climb uphill to his summer post.3

In July 1955 the Coos Bay Times reported that the station had been abandoned because the tower's timbers were rotting.3 The register says the tower was removed in 1956, and firelookout.com says it was destroyed that year.1,2

No source we read describes what remains at the site today, or whether visitors may go there.

  1. Anderson Lookout Site, Former Fire Lookout Sites Register, http://firetower.org/lookouts/us/or/anderson-lookout-site/ (accessed 2026-10-09). ↩
  2. Anderson Mtn. Fire Lookout Tower, firelookout.com, https://www.firelookout.com/or/andersonmtn.html (accessed 2026-10-09). ↩
  3. Anderson Mountain, Forest Lookouts (Oregon), https://oregonlookouts.weebly.com/anderson-mountain.html (accessed 2026-10-09). ↩

Photos

Anderson Lookout 1933
Anderson Lookout 1933 (1933)Photo: Howard Verschoor collection, via Former Fire Lookout Sites Register (firetower.org) · All rights reserved · source
Anderson Lookout 1933 - 1956
Anderson Lookout 1933 - 1956 (1933)Photo: Howard Verschoor collection, via Former Fire Lookout Sites Register (firetower.org) · All rights reserved · source

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Sources

  1. Former Fire Lookout Sites Register (FFLOS) Gave us: name, location, county, elevation, what it is built of, register numbers, agency, dates, photos, links Former Fire Lookout Sites Register (firetower.org) · All rights reserved (American Resources, Inc.); facts extracted only, no prose copied. · retrieved 4 Oct 2026
  2. Forest Fire Lookout Association (FFLA) - US lookout lists Gave us: type, status, register numbers, links Forest Fire Lookout Association (firelookout.org) · No licence stated; facts extracted only, no prose copied. · retrieved 8 Oct 2026
  3. 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
  4. FOREST LOOKOUTS -- western US (Ron Kemnow's weebly sites) Gave us: height, 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, height, 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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