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Fire lookout · Lane County, Oregon

Lamb Butte Lookout Site

Willamette NF lookout on Lamb Butte: firefinder 1930, cab built 1933, gone by 1959; sources disagree on design. No source describes the site today.

Gone: The lookout no longer stands. Only the site is left. Cab removed by 1959; no source describes what 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
Type
Ground-level cabL-6 cabThe designs: L-6, L-5
Built of
WoodGoing by its design; no source says so in words.
Built
1933
Height
Unknown
Elevation
5,527 ft (1,685 m)
Agency
U.S. Forest Service
Land
Federal land
Location
Lane County, Oregon
Coordinates
44.08062, −122.06876
This entry
VerifiedResearched, then checked independently. Updated 9 Oct 2026.
Firefinder id
us-or-lamb-butte

View from the cab

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History

Then and now

  1. 1930 EventA firefinder was set up on the butteSources: firelookout.com, firetower.org
  2. 1933 BuiltL-6 cab (register, firelookout.com); L-5 ground house, 10x10 (history site)Sources: firelookout.com, firetower.org, oregonlookouts.weebly.com
  3. 1934 EventWind blew the shutters off the lookout house (Eugene Register-Guard item, quoted by the history site)Source: oregonlookouts.weebly.com
  4. No record between 1934 and 1959
  5. 1959 RemovedGone by 1959 (register, firelookout.com); the history site says removed in the 1950sSources: firelookout.com, firetower.org, oregonlookouts.weebly.com
  6. No record between 1959 and 2011
  7. 2011 Added to the Former Fire Lookout Sites RegisterDate registered per FFLOS detail page: May 8, 2011Source: 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.

Lamb Butte lies in Lane County, about eight miles southeast of McKenzie Bridge, within the Willamette National Forest.1

A firefinder went up on the butte in 1930.1,2 A lookout cab followed in 1933.1,2,3 The sources disagree on the design. The register and firelookout.com call the 1933 cab an L-6, while a lookout history site calls it an L-5 ground house, 10 by 10.1,2,3 The house sat on top of the butte.3

A September 1934 Eugene Register-Guard item, quoted by the history site, reports that a strong wind blew the shutters off the house.3

The register and firelookout.com say the cab was gone by 1959.1,2 The history site says the lookout was removed in the 1950s.3

No source I found describes what, if anything, remains on the butte today, or whether the summit is open to visitors.

  1. Lamb Butte Fire Lookout Cabin, firelookout.com, https://www.firelookout.com/or/lambbutte.html (accessed 2026-10-09). ↩
  2. Lamb Butte Lookout Site, Former Fire Lookout Sites register, http://firetower.org/lookouts/us/or/lamb-butte-lookout-site/ (accessed 2026-10-09). ↩
  3. Lamb Butte - Forest Lookouts, Oregon forest lookouts history site, https://oregonlookouts.weebly.com/lamb-butte.html (accessed 2026-10-09). ↩

Photos

Photo of Lamb Butte 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, 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: what it is built of, 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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