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Fire lookout · Juniata County, Pennsylvania

Wagner Tower Site

Juniata County steel Blaw-Knox tower, built 1923 and since removed per the register; no removal date, staffing or site description found.

Gone: The lookout no longer stands. Only the site is left. The register says the tower has been removed, with no date. A TopoQuest map label remains at the coordinates; no source we read describes the site now.

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
1923
Height
Unknown
Elevation
1,847 ft (563 m)
Agency
Unknown
Land
Unknown
Location
Juniata County, Pennsylvania
Coordinates
40.65396, −77.38499
This entry
VerifiedResearched, then checked independently. Updated 9 Oct 2026.
Firefinder id
us-pa-wagner

View from the cab

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History

Then and now

  1. 1923 BuiltRegister gives 1923 as the build yearSource: firetower.org
  2. No record between 1923 and 2008
  3. 2008 Added to the Former Fire Lookout Sites RegisterRegistered September 16, 2008, nominated by Henry IsenbergSource: firetower.org
  4. TodayGoneThe lookout no longer stands. Only the site is left. When it came down is not recorded.

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.

Wagner's fire lookout stood in Juniata County, Pennsylvania.1,2 The Former Fire Lookout Sites register describes it as a steel Blaw-Knox tower, built in 1923, and says it has since been removed.1

The register gives the site an elevation of 1,847 feet (563 m) and places it at 40.653964 N, 77.384991 W. It names Henry Isenberg as the nominator, and the entry was registered on September 16, 2008.1

The Eastern U.S. Forest Lookouts page for the tower lists it only under Juniata County, Pennsylvania, with nothing written beneath that heading.2

The name survives on maps.3 A TopoQuest gazetteer entry titled Wagner Lookout Tower sits at the same coordinates, on the USGS Alfarata map.3 That is a map label, and it does not show whether any structure remains. No source we read describes what, if anything, stands at the site now, or whether the ground is open to visitors.1,2,3

  1. Wagner Tower Site, Former Fire Lookout Sites Register, http://firetower.org/lookouts/us/pa/wagner-tower-site/ (accessed 2026-10-10). ↩
  2. Wagner - Forest Lookouts, Eastern U.S. Forest Lookouts, https://easternuslookouts.weebly.com/wagner.html (accessed 2026-10-10). ↩
  3. Wagner Lookout Tower, Pennsylvania, TopoQuest, https://www.topoquest.com/place-detail.php?id=1213393 (accessed 2026-10-10). ↩

Sources

  1. Former Fire Lookout Sites Register (FFLOS) Gave us: name, location, county, elevation, 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: type, 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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