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Fire lookout · Clackamas County, Oregon

Peavine Mountain Lookout Site (Clackamas County)

Also known as Peavine Mountain

Clackamas County lookout site: camp in 1927, 26-foot L-4 tower in 1933, tent cabin on the summit in 1935; gone by 1957.

Gone: The lookout no longer stands. Only the site is left. Removed; the register says the lookout was gone by 1957

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 tower26-foot pole L-4 tower, replacing a 1927 camp about half a mile north of the summitThe design: L-4
Built of
Wood
Built
1933
Height
26 ft (7.9 m)
Elevation
4,732 ft (1,442 m)
Agency
U.S. Forest Service
Land
Federal land
Location
Clackamas County, Oregon
Coordinates
45.01340, −121.83542 sources disagree
This entry
VerifiedResearched, then checked independently. Updated 9 Oct 2026.
Firefinder id
us-or-peavine-mountain-clackamas-county

View from the cab

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History

Then and now

  1. 1927 EventCamp set up about half a mile north of the summitSources: firetower.org, firelookout.com
  2. 1933 Built26-foot pole L-4 tower replaced the camp; Weebly gives the same yearSources: firetower.org, firelookout.com, oregonlookouts.weebly.com
  3. 1935 EventTent cabin erected on the summitSources: firetower.org, firelookout.com
  4. No record between 1935 and 1957
  5. 1957 RemovedGone by 1957 per the register and firelookout.comSources: firetower.org, firelookout.com
  6. No record between 1957 and 2010
  7. 2010 Added to the Former Fire Lookout Sites RegisterRegistered September 20, 2010Source: firetower.org
  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.

The Peavine Mountain lookout site sits at 4,732 feet in the Mount Hood National Forest, in Clackamas County, Oregon.1 It began in 1927 as a camp roughly half a mile north of the top.1,2

In 1933 a 26-foot pole L-4 tower replaced the camp.1,2 A Weebly summary dates the tower to the same year.3 The register credits a panorama of the lookout, dated October 10, 1933, to the National Archives Pacific Northwest Region.1,3 In 1935 the summit gained a tent cabin.1,2

The register says the lookout no longer stood by 1957. Firelookout.com gives the same year and lists the site as gone.1,2 The site was added to the register on September 20, 2010.1

No source read describes what, if anything, remains on the summit today. The register page carries a 2011 photograph of the site, captioned with the year and the photographer's name.1

  1. Peavine Mountain Lookout Site (Clackamas County), Former Fire Lookout Sites Register, http://firetower.org/lookouts/us/or/peavine-mountain-lookout-site-clackamas-county/ (accessed 2026-10-09). ↩
  2. Peavine Mtn. Fire Lookout Tower, firelookout.com, https://www.firelookout.com/or/peavinemtn35.html (accessed 2026-10-09). ↩
  3. Peavine Mountain - Forest Lookouts, Oregon Lookouts, https://oregonlookouts.weebly.com/peavine-mountain1.html (accessed 2026-10-09). ↩

Photos

Peavine Mountain Lookout panoramic 10-10-1933
Peavine Mountain Lookout panoramic 10-10-1933 (1933)Photo: National Archives-Pacific Northwest Region, via Former Fire Lookout Sites Register (firetower.org) · All rights reserved · source
Peavine Mountain Lookout site 2011
Peavine Mountain Lookout site 2011 (2011)Photo: Howard Verschoor, 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 the location by 600 m.

    • FFLOS: 45.01340, −121.83542
    • FFLA: 45.01834, −121.83240
    • firelookout.com -- Rex Kamstra's Forest Fire Lookout Page: 45.01834, −121.83240

    They share a register number.

    The map uses the position from FFLOS.

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: 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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