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Fire lookout · Lane County, Oregon

Table Lookout Site

Also known as Table Mountain

Eastern Lane FPA lookout on Table Mountain, Lane County OR: earlier 30 ft tower 1933/34, 1947 lookout house on timber tower, lookout died at post 1952, removed or destroyed 1978-79; site gone.

Gone: The lookout no longer stands. Only the site is left. Tower removed or destroyed in 1978-79 (sources differ); no source describes what remains at the site now

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 towerEarlier 30 ft 7x7 tower with ground cabin (1933 per register, 1934 per local history); 1947 14x14 lookout house on a timber tower (20 ft per register, 25 ft per local history)The design: L-4
Built of
Not recorded
Built
1933
Height
30 ft (9.1 m)
Elevation
4,178 ft (1,274 m)
Agency
Eastern Lane FPA
Land
Unknown
Location
Lane County, Oregon
Coordinates
43.62809, −122.84271
This entry
VerifiedResearched, then checked independently. Updated 9 Oct 2026.
Firefinder id
us-or-table

View from the cab

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History

Then and now

  1. 1933 BuiltRegister dates an earlier 30 ft 7x7 tower with a ground cabin to 1933Source: firetower.org
  2. 1934 BuiltLocal history dates a 30-foot round timber tower built by the Wendling CCC camp to 1934Source: oregonlookouts.weebly.com
  3. 1947 Built14x14 lookout house on a timber tower; register says 20 ft, local history says 25 ftSources: firetower.org, oregonlookouts.weebly.com
  4. 1952 EventWilliam Hastings, 74, lookout for the Eastern Lane County Forest Protective association, died at his post on July 17; his wife shared the postSource: oregonlookouts.weebly.com
  5. No record between 1952 and 1978
  6. 1978 DestroyedFirelookout.com says the tower was destroyed in 1978Source: firelookout.com
  7. 1979 RemovedRegister says removed in 1979; local history says dismantled and salvaged in 1979Sources: firetower.org, oregonlookouts.weebly.com
  8. No record between 1979 and 2011
  9. 2011 Added to the Former Fire Lookout Sites RegisterRegistered March 30, 2011 as FFLOS US 914, OR 281Source: firetower.org
  10. 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.

Table Lookout stood on Table Mountain in Lane County, Oregon, at 4,178 feet.1,2 The register says an earlier 30-foot 7-by-7 tower with a ground cabin dated from 1933. A local history instead dates a round, 30-foot timber tower, raised by the Wendling CCC camp, to 1934.2,3

In 1947 a 14-by-14-foot lookout house was set on a timber tower. The register calls that tower 20 feet tall, and the local history says 25.2,3

The staffing record I found dates from 1952. The Forest Log reported that William Hastings, 74, had died of a heart attack on July 17 while stationed at the lookout. He worked for the Eastern Lane County Forest Protective association, and his wife shared the post with him.3

Sources disagree on when the tower came down. The register says it was removed in 1979, and the local history says it was dismantled and salvaged that year.2,3 Firelookout.com says it was destroyed in 1978.1

The Forest Fire Lookout Association lists the tower as gone.4 No source I read describes what remains at the summit now, or whether visitors can reach it.

  1. Table Mtn. Fire Lookout Tower, firelookout.com, https://www.firelookout.com/or/tablemtn.html (accessed 2026-10-09). ↩
  2. Table Lookout Site, Former Fire Lookout Sites Register, http://firetower.org/lookouts/us/or/table-lookout-site/ (accessed 2026-10-09). ↩
  3. Table Mountain - Forest Lookouts, Oregon Lookouts, https://oregonlookouts.weebly.com/table-mountain3.html (accessed 2026-10-09). ↩
  4. Oregon lookouts list, Forest Fire Lookout Association, https://firelookout.org/lookouts/us/or/ (accessed 2026-10-09). ↩

Photos

Photo of Table Lookout Site
Photo: Former Fire Lookout Sites Register (firetower.org) · All rights reserved · source
1965
1965 (1965)Photo: Former Fire Lookout Sites Register (firetower.org) · All rights reserved · source
Table Lookout 1934
Table Lookout 1934 (1934)Photo: Howard Verschoor collection, 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, 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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