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Fire lookout · Linn County, Oregon

Jordan Lookout Site

Also known as Jordan Mountain

Linn County L-4 ground cab built 1949, dismantled in 1969, and the cab moved to Green Peter Lookout in 1970. No source describes the site today.

Gone: The lookout no longer stands. Only the site is left. Lookout dismantled in 1969; the L-4 cab was moved to Green Peter Lookout in 1970; 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

Access unknown

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Road to the top?
Unknown

Facts

Status
Gone
Type
Ground-level cabL-4 cab on a standard 14 x 14 foot ground houseThe design: L-4
Built of
WoodGoing by its design; no source says so in words.
Built
1949
Height
14 ft (4.3 m)
Elevation
1,020 ft (311 m)
Agency
Linn FPA
Land
Unknown
Location
Linn County, Oregon
Coordinates
44.73686, −122.73897
This entry
VerifiedResearched, then checked independently. Updated 9 Oct 2026.
Firefinder id
us-or-jordan

View from the cab

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History

Then and now

  1. 1949 BuiltStandard 14x14 foot ground-house lookout erected near Jordan; the register gives 1949 for the L-4 cabSources: firetower.org, oregonlookouts.weebly.com
  2. No record between 1949 and 1969
  3. 1969 RemovedForest Lookouts: the lookout was dismantled and its materials moved to Green Peter; the Green Peter page says the old lookout was torn down in October 1969Sources: oregonlookouts.weebly.com, oregonlookouts.weebly.com
  4. 1970 MovedThe L-4 cab moved to Green Peter Lookout, per the register and firelookout.comSources: firetower.org, firelookout.com, nhlr.org
  5. No record between 1970 and 2011
  6. 2011 Added to the Former Fire Lookout Sites RegisterDate registered per FFLOS detail page: May 8, 2011Source: firetower.org
  7. 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.

A standard 14-by-14-foot ground-house lookout was erected on a site near Jordan, in Linn County, in 1949.1,2 A district report from that year says an old portable building from the Thomas Creek site was moved to the Jordan site and redesigned as a garage and tool room.2 The register describes the cab as an L-4 design.1

Forest Lookouts says the Jordan lookout was dismantled in 1969, and that its materials went to the Green Peter site.2,3 The register and firelookout.com both say the L-4 cab itself was moved to Green Peter Lookout in 1970.1,4

The cab's new home, Green Peter Lookout, is listed under the Oregon Department of Forestry's South Cascade District.5 The National Historic Lookout Register says the lookout was rebuilt in 2004, and that the station is no longer manned.5

No source I found describes what, if anything, remains at the Jordan site today, or whether the public may visit it.

  1. Jordan Lookout Site, Former Fire Lookout Sites Register, http://firetower.org/lookouts/us/or/jordan-lookout-site/ (accessed 2026-10-09). ↩
  2. Jordan Mountain, Forest Lookouts, https://oregonlookouts.weebly.com/jordan-mountain.html (accessed 2026-10-09). ↩
  3. Green Peter, Forest Lookouts, https://oregonlookouts.weebly.com/green-peter.html (accessed 2026-10-09). ↩
  4. Jordan Fire Lookout Cabin, firelookout.com, https://www.firelookout.com/or/jordan.html (accessed 2026-10-09). ↩
  5. Green Peter Lookout, National Historic Lookout Register, http://nhlr.org/lookouts/us/or/green-peter-lookout/ (accessed 2026-10-09). ↩

Photos

Photo of Jordan Lookout Site
Photo: 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, 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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