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Fire lookout · Bradford County, Pennsylvania

Kahill Tower Site

Bradford County steel Blaw-Knox tower, built 1922 and removed 1946 per the FFLOS register; no source found describing the site today.

Gone: The lookout no longer stands. Only the site is left. Removed in 1946 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 Blaw-Knox towerThe design: Blaw-Knox
Built of
SteelGoing by its design; no source says so in words.
Built
1922
Height
Unknown
Elevation
2,302 ft (702 m)
Agency
Unknown
Land
Unknown
Location
Bradford County, Pennsylvania
Coordinates
41.59174, −76.60134
This entry
VerifiedResearched, then checked independently. Updated 9 Oct 2026.
Firefinder id
us-pa-kahill

View from the cab

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History

Then and now

  1. 1922 BuiltRegister says built in 1922 as a steel Blaw-Knox tower, also known as Kahill and Cahill.Source: firetower.org
  2. No record between 1922 and 1946
  3. 1946 RemovedRegister says the tower was removed in 1946.Source: firetower.org
  4. No record between 1946 and 2008
  5. 2008 Added to the Former Fire Lookout Sites RegisterRegistered September 16, 2008, nominated by Henry Isenberg.Source: firetower.org
  6. 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 Kahill tower stood in Bradford County, Pennsylvania.1 The register calls it a steel Blaw-Knox tower and gives the alternate names Kahill and Cahill.1 It says the tower was built in 1922 and removed in 1946.1

A June 2021 post on paparksandforests.org says Blaw-Knox towers were erected in 1922 and 1923.2 That post is about a different tower, Little Flat, so it offers context for those dates rather than proof of the Kahill dates.2

The site was entered in the register on September 16, 2008, with Henry Isenberg as the nominator.1

No source we found describes what, if anything, remains at the site today. No source we found says whether the site is open to the public.

  1. Kahill Tower Site, Former Fire Lookout Sites register, http://firetower.org/lookouts/us/pa/kahill-tower-site/ (accessed 2026-10-10). ↩
  2. Mystery solved, paparksandforests.org, https://paparksandforests.org/mystery-solved (accessed 2026-10-10). ↩

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. 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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