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Fire lookout · Tioga County, Pennsylvania

Lee Tower Site

Steel Aermotor tower on Cedar Mountain near Leetonia, Tioga County; built 1928, removed 1986; no source describes the site today.

Gone: The lookout no longer stands. Only the site is left. Tower removed in 1986; no source describes what remains on the site.

Visit & stay

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

Access

Access unknown

We do not know the access rules. Check with the land manager before you go.

Road to the top?
Unknown

Facts

Status
Gone
Type
Cab on a towersteel Aermotor towerThe design: Aermotor
Built of
Steel
Built
1928
Height
80 ft (24.4 m)
Elevation
2,394 ft (730 m)
Agency
October 26, 1939: "
Land
Unknown
Location
Tioga County, Pennsylvania
Coordinates
41.62313, −77.54832
This entry
VerifiedResearched, then checked independently. Updated 9 Oct 2026.
Firefinder id
us-pa-lee

View from the cab

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History

Then and now

  1. 1928 BuiltSteel Aermotor tower, per the registerSource: firetower.org
  2. No record between 1928 and 1949
  3. 1949 StaffedRaymond Cole named as towerman on Lee Tower in an April 1949 Wellsboro Gazette reportSource: easternuslookouts.weebly.com
  4. No record between 1949 and 1986
  5. 1986 RemovedRegister says the tower was removed in 1986Source: firetower.org
  6. No record between 1986 and 2008
  7. 2008 Added to the Former Fire Lookout Sites RegisterRegistered September 16, 2008Source: 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 10 Oct 2026, fact-checked.

The Lee tower stood on Cedar Mountain, northwest of Leetonia in Tioga County.1,2 The register describes it as a steel Aermotor tower built in 1928.1 An October 1939 report from the Wellsboro Agitator, quoted on a regional lookout history site, called it the 80-foot Lee Tower at Leetonia and listed it among the other towers in District 16.2

In April 1949 the Wellsboro Gazette named Raymond Cole as the towerman on Lee Tower, which it placed on Cedar Mountain north west of Leetonia.2

The tower was removed in 1986.1 The site was entered in the Former Fire Lookout Sites register on September 16, 2008.1

Today, no source I read describes what, if anything, remains on the mountain at this spot, or whether the ground is open to the public. Plan on a site visit only after you have checked who owns the land.

  1. Lee Tower Site | Former Fire Lookout Sites, Former Fire Lookout Sites register, http://firetower.org/lookouts/us/pa/lee-tower-site/ (accessed 2026-10-10). ↩
  2. Lee - FOREST LOOKOUTS, Forest Lookouts, https://easternuslookouts.weebly.com/lee.html (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. FOREST LOOKOUTS -- eastern US (easternuslookouts.weebly.com) Gave us: height, agency, 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, height, 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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