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Fire lookout · Douglas County, Oregon

Dog Prairie Lookout Site

Umpqua National Forest L-4 lookout near Mount Bailey, Oregon, built in 1932 and removed in 1965 or 1969; no source describes the site today.

Gone: The lookout no longer stands. Only the site is left. Removed in 1965 according to the register; firelookout.com says gone in 1969

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 towerL-4The design: L-4
Built of
Wood
Built
1932
Height
Unknown
Elevation
6,128 ft (1,868 m)
Agency
U.S. Forest Service
Land
Federal land
Location
Douglas County, Oregon
Coordinates
43.19564, −122.29220
This entry
VerifiedResearched, then checked independently. Updated 9 Oct 2026.
Firefinder id
us-or-dog-prairie

View from the cab

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History

Then and now

  1. 1932 BuiltPlanned in a July 1932 Roseburg News-Review item; register and firelookout.com both date it to 1932, but they describe the structure differentlySources: firetower.org, oregonlookouts.weebly.com, firelookout.com
  2. 1933 EventPanorama photographs dated August 1, 1933 (taken by Reino Sarlin), per Rex's Fire Lookout PageSource: oregonlookouts.weebly.com
  3. No record between 1933 and 1965
  4. 1965 RemovedRegister date; its photo caption gives 1932 to 1965Source: firetower.org
  5. 1969 Removedfirelookout.com gives gone in 1969; conflicts with the register's 1965Source: firelookout.com
  6. No record between 1969 and 2010
  7. 2010 Added to the Former Fire Lookout Sites RegisterDate registered per FFLOS detail page: December 10, 2010Source: FFLOS register entry
  8. 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.

Dog Prairie is in the Umpqua National Forest in Douglas County, Oregon, about five miles west of Mount Bailey in the Diamond Lake district.1,2 In July 1932 a Roseburg News-Review item, quoted on Rex's Fire Lookout Page, said nine new lookout houses were to be built, and that one would go up at Dog Prairie.2 The register and firelookout.com both date the lookout to 1932.1,3

The sources do not agree on what was built there. The register calls it a wooden L-4 tower, while Rex's page describes a 14-by-14 L-4 ground house.1,2 Rex's page also records panorama photographs dated August 1, 1933.2

The register gives 1965 as the removal year, and its photo caption gives the span 1932 to 1965.1 Firelookout.com says it was gone in 1969.3 Rex's page gives a removal but no date.2 The sources disagree on the year, and we could not settle it.

No source we read describes what, if anything, remains at the site today, or how to reach it. The register lists the coordinates and elevation but says nothing about the ground now.1

  1. Dog Prairie Lookout Site, Former Fire Lookout Sites Register, http://firetower.org/lookouts/us/or/dog-prairie-lookout-site/ (accessed 2026-10-09). ↩
  2. Dog Prairie, Forest Lookouts (Oregon), Rex's Fire Lookout Page, https://oregonlookouts.weebly.com/dog-prairie.html (accessed 2026-10-09). ↩
  3. Dog Prairie Fire Lookout Tower, firelookout.com, https://www.firelookout.com/or/dogprairie.html (accessed 2026-10-09). ↩

Photos

Dog Prairie Lookout 1932 - 1965
Dog Prairie Lookout 1932 - 1965 (1932)Photo: Ron Kemnow 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, ownership, 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: design, 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, 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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