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Fire lookout · Lincoln County, Oregon

Green Point Lookout Site

Lincoln County, OR summit: crow's nest 1933, CCC-built 53-ft pole tower 1939; destroyed in a 1951 windstorm; a laddered tree from the crow's nest remains.

Gone: The lookout no longer stands. Only the site is left. Destroyed in a 1951 windstorm per the register and firelookout.com; Forest Lookouts gives only the word 'Removed' with no date; a laddered tree from the crow's nest remains

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 sources disagree
Type
Cab on a tower53-foot pole tower of the register's L-4 type, with a garage, built by the CCC in 1939; crow's nest lookout added 1933The design: L-4
Built of
Wood
Built
1933
Height
53 ft (16.2 m)
Elevation
1,303 ft (397 m)
Agency
U.S. Forest Service
Land
Federal land
Location
Lincoln County, Oregon
Coordinates
45.04163, −123.88795
This entry
VerifiedResearched, then checked independently. Updated 9 Oct 2026.
Firefinder id
us-or-green-point

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History

Then and now

  1. 1933 BuiltCrow's nest lookout added to the summitSource: firetower.org
  2. 1939 Built53-ft pole L-4 tower and a garage built by the CCCSources: firetower.org, oregonlookouts.weebly.com
  3. 1942 EventBriefly used for aircraft surveillance; activated August 3, 1942 for the Portland Filter CenterSources: firetower.org, oregonlookouts.weebly.com
  4. 1951 DestroyedDestroyed by a windstorm per the register and firelookout.com; Forest Lookouts says only 'Removed'Sources: firetower.org, firelookout.com, oregonlookouts.weebly.com
  5. No record between 1951 and 2010
  6. 2010 Added to the Former Fire Lookout Sites RegisterDate registered per FFLOS detail page: November 10, 2010Source: FFLOS register entry
  7. TodayGoneThe lookout no longer stands. Only the site is left.

Old maps of this spot

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Story

Researched 9 Oct 2026, fact-checked.

Green Point is a summit in Lincoln County, Oregon, about seven miles northeast of Lincoln City, inside the Siuslaw National Forest.1,2

A crow's nest lookout went up on the summit in 1933.1 In 1939 a Civilian Conservation Corps crew built a 53-foot pole tower of the register's L-4 type, along with a garage.1,3 A January 1940 Eugene Guard item, quoted by the Forest Lookouts site, said the new house and tower would add fire protection near Neskowin.3

In 1942 the lookout saw brief wartime use for aircraft surveillance.1 The Forest Lookouts site gives an activation date of August 3, 1942, for the Portland Filter Center.3

The register and firelookout.com both say a windstorm destroyed the tower in 1951.1,2 The Forest Lookouts history ends with the single word "Removed" and gives no date.3 The sources differ on how the tower came down, so we report the windstorm and note the one-word entry.1,2,3

The register says a laddered tree from the crow's nest lookout is still there.1 None of the sources we read describes the rest of the site, or says whether the public may visit it.1,2,3

  1. Green Point Lookout Site, Former Fire Lookout Sites, http://firetower.org/lookouts/us/or/green-point-lookout-site/ (accessed 2026-10-09). ↩
  2. Green Point Fire Lookout Tower, firelookout.com, https://www.firelookout.com/or/greenpoint.html (accessed 2026-10-09). ↩
  3. Green Point, Forest Lookouts, https://oregonlookouts.weebly.com/green-point.html (accessed 2026-10-09). ↩

Photos

Green Point Lookout site 2003
Green Point Lookout site 2003 (2003)Photo: Howard Verschoor, via Former Fire Lookout Sites Register (firetower.org) · All rights reserved · source
Photo of Green Point Lookout Site
Photo: Danielle Sulivan, via Former Fire Lookout Sites Register (firetower.org) · All rights reserved · source

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Where sources disagree

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  • Sources disagree on whether it still stands.

    • FFLA: Gone
    • FFLOS: Gone
    • firelookout.com -- Rex Kamstra's Forest Fire Lookout Page: Standing

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: design, dates, 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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