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Fire lookout · Elk County, Pennsylvania

Boone Mountain Tower Site

Steel Aermotor fire tower on Boone Mountain, Elk County, PA: built 1921, removed 1974 per the FFLOS register. Sources disagree on county; no site description found.

Gone: The lookout no longer stands. Only the site is left. Removed in 1974, according to the FFLOS register.

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 towerSteel Aermotor tower (FFLOS register)The design: Aermotor
Built of
Steel
Built
1921
Height
Unknown
Elevation
1,895 ft (578 m)
Agency
Unknown
Land
Unknown
Location
Elk County, Pennsylvania
Coordinates
41.23895, −78.64725 sources disagree
This entry
VerifiedResearched, then checked independently. Updated 9 Oct 2026.
Firefinder id
us-pa-boone-mountain

View from the cab

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History

Then and now

  1. 1917 EventBare observation point established, per a Department of Forestry report dated December 31, 1917, cited on the Eastern US Lookouts pageSource: easternuslookouts.weebly.com
  2. 1921 BuiltRegister build yearSource: firetower.org
  3. No record between 1921 and 1974
  4. 1974 RemovedRegister removal yearSource: firetower.org
  5. No record between 1974 and 2008
  6. 2008 Added to the Former Fire Lookout Sites RegisterRegistered September 16, 2008; nominated by Henry IsenbergSource: 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 10 Oct 2026, fact-checked.

The Boone Mountain lookout was a steel Aermotor tower, built in 1921.1 The register gives the site's elevation as 1,895 feet (578 meters).1 The register places the tower in Elk County, but the Eastern US Lookouts page puts it in Clearfield County, so the sources disagree on the county.1,2

Before the tower went up, the spot had a bare observation point.2 The Eastern US Lookouts page cites a Department of Forestry report dated December 31, 1917, for that.2

The register says the tower was removed in 1974.1 Henry Isenberg nominated the site, and the register listed it on September 16, 2008.1

Nothing I read describes what, if anything, remains at the site today, or whether visitors can reach it.

  1. Boone Mountain Tower Site, Former Fire Lookout Sites, http://firetower.org/lookouts/us/pa/boone-mountain-tower-site/ (accessed 2026-10-10). ↩
  2. Boone Mountain, Eastern US Lookouts, https://easternuslookouts.weebly.com/boone-mountain.html (accessed 2026-10-10). ↩

Where sources disagree

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  • Sources disagree on the location by 900 m.

    • FFLOS: 41.23895, −78.64725
    • FOREST LOOKOUTS -- eastern US (easternuslookouts.weebly.com): 41.24700, −78.64669

    The map uses the position from FFLOS.

Sources

  1. Former Fire Lookout Sites Register (FFLOS) Gave us: name, location, county, elevation, type, what it is built of, status, register numbers, dates, 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 LOOKOUTS -- eastern US (easternuslookouts.weebly.com) Gave us: links easternuslookouts.weebly.com · No licence stated; facts only (county, coordinates where the page's own map widget gives them, status, height, design hints, register links). The site's own historical quotes, newspaper citations and narrative are not reproduced. · retrieved 8 Oct 2026
  3. Firefinder research Gave us: summary, design, status, 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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