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Fire lookout · Lane County, Oregon

Stony Point Lookout Site

Lane County, OR lookout run by the Western Lane Fire Patrol; built 1936 per Forest Lookouts (1938 per Register); destroyed in the 1962 Columbus Day hurricane.

Gone: The lookout no longer stands. Only the site is left. Destroyed in the Columbus Day hurricane on October 12, 1962; no source describes what remains at the site

Visit & stay

Gone: site only. The lookout no longer stands, so there is nothing to climb or rent.

Access

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Road to the top?
Unknown

Facts

Status
Gone
Type
Cab on a towerWooden L-6 tower with cabin per Register and firelookout.com; 1936 records describe a creosoted ring-connected tower with a 7 x 7 cabThe design: L-6
Built of
Wood
Built
1936
Height
100 ft (30.5 m)
Elevation
1,913 ft (583 m)
Agency
Western Lane FPA
Land
Unknown
Location
Lane County, Oregon
Coordinates
43.92487, −123.49301
This entry
VerifiedResearched, then checked independently. Updated 9 Oct 2026.
Firefinder id
us-or-stony-point

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History

Then and now

  1. 1934 EventAugust 1934 letter to the Regional Forester: the lookout house was bought and in storage; a trail was suggested to pack it inSource: oregonlookouts.weebly.com
  2. 1936 BuiltConstruction began September 15, 1936 on a tower with a 7 x 7 cab; a foreman and crew of five finished it within about a monthSource: oregonlookouts.weebly.com
  3. 1937 StaffedKenneth Fildes on detached duty as lookout in August 1937; the Forest Log says he reported a number of fires accuratelySource: oregonlookouts.weebly.com
  4. 1938 BuiltRegister and firelookout.com date the tower to 1938; this conflicts with the 1936 construction recordsSources: firetower.org, firelookout.com
  5. 1942 AlteredCabin construction, $140.00Source: oregonlookouts.weebly.com
  6. 1953 AlteredOne quarter mile of road built to the lookout; dwelling house refinished inside and re-roofedSource: oregonlookouts.weebly.com
  7. 1962 DestroyedDestroyed in the Columbus Day hurricane, October 12, 1962Sources: firetower.org, oregonlookouts.weebly.com
  8. No record between 1962 and 2011
  9. 2011 Added to the Former Fire Lookout Sites RegisterRegistered March 30, 2011 as US 912, OR 279; nominated by Ray KresekSource: firetower.org
  10. 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.

The Stony Point lookout stood about 21 miles west-southwest of Eugene, in Lane County, Oregon.1 The Western Lane Fire Patrol administered it.2 In an August 1934 letter to the Regional Forester, quoted by Forest Lookouts, the forest supervisor reported that the secretary of the Western Lane Fire Patrol Association was anxious to get something done. The letter said the lookout house had already been bought and was in storage, and that a trail might be practical for packing it in.3

The sources disagree on when the tower went up.2,1,3 The Register and firelookout.com both date it to 1938 and describe a wooden L-6 tower with a cabin.2,1 The Forest Lookouts page instead quotes 1936 construction records. They show work began on September 15, 1936, on a tower with a 7-by-7 cab.3 Those records give the height as 100 feet.3 A November 1936 Forest Log entry says a foreman and a crew of five finished a 103-foot tower within about a month, and the Register says 110.2,3

In August 1937 Kenneth Fildes was on detached duty from the camp to staff the lookout.3 The Forest Log said he had picked up a number of fires and was very accurate in locating them.3

A cabin went up in 1942 at a cost of $140. In 1953 a quarter mile of road was built to the lookout, and the dwelling house was refinished inside and re-roofed.3

The Columbus Day hurricane destroyed the tower and its cabin on October 12, 1962.2,3

The Register and firelookout.com both describe the tower as destroyed.2,1 We found no source that describes what, if anything, is left on the peak today, or whether the land is open to visitors.

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

Photos

Stony Point Lookout panoramic 7-25-40
Stony Point Lookout panoramic 7-25-40Photo: National Archives-Pacific Northwest Region, 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, 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, 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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