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Fire lookout · Pend Oreille County, Washington

Fourth of July Peak Lookout Site

Also known as Fourth OF July Peak (LeCLERC), Fourth of July (LeClerc Lookout)

Pend Oreille County site on Colville NF: 1933 crow's nest, 1936 40-ft pole L-4 tower, now gone; sources give no removal date or current condition.

Gone: The lookout no longer stands. Only the site is left. Tower is gone; the register and firelookout.com give no removal date, and no source describes the site today

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 towerCrow's nest (1933), then a 40' pole L-4 tower (1936)The design: L-4
Built of
Wood
Built
1933
Height
Unknown
Elevation
4,721 ft (1,439 m)
Agency
Colville National Forest (U.S. Forest Service)
Land
Federal land
Location
Pend Oreille County, Washington
Coordinates
48.58074, −117.19706
This entry
VerifiedResearched, then checked independently. Updated 9 Oct 2026.
Firefinder id
us-wa-fourth-of-july-peak

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History

Then and now

  1. 1933 BuiltCrow's nest built on the siteSources: firetower.org, firelookout.com, willhiteweb.com
  2. 1936 Replaced by a new structure40-foot pole L-4 tower replaced the crow's nest per the register and firelookout.com; the Willhite page says a 40-foot pole tower with an L-4 cab was built in 1936Sources: firetower.org, firelookout.com, willhiteweb.com
  3. 1936 StaffedWillard Enyeart was the lookout in 1936 (Newport Miner items via Forest Lookouts; Willhite)Sources: washingtonlookouts.weebly.com, willhiteweb.com
  4. No record between 1936 and 2012
  5. 2012 Added to the Former Fire Lookout Sites RegisterDate registered December 14, 2012; nominated by Ray KresekSource: firetower.org
  6. 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 9 Oct 2026, fact-checked.

Fourth of July Peak lies in Pend Oreille County, Washington, on the Colville National Forest, about 14 miles southeast of Ione. The register gives its elevation as 4,721 feet, or 1,439 meters.1,2

The site first had a crow's nest, built in 1933.1,2,3 In 1936 a 40-foot pole tower with an L-4 cab was built, and the register says it replaced the crow's nest.1,2,3 A 1957 map shows the lookout under the name LeClerc Lookout.3

Willard Enyeart was the lookout in 1936.3 He had worked for the Forest Service in the district before, and he came from his home in Metaline Falls to be stationed at LeClerc Creek.4,3 Newport Miner items from that July place him at the lookout. A July 9 item says he spent a day at home in Metaline Falls, and it notes that heavy rains had let some Sullivan Lake lookouts leave their posts over the Fourth.4

The register and firelookout.com both say the tower is now gone, but neither gives a date for its removal.1,2 Forest Lookouts lists the site as removed.4

The Willhite page says its author has not visited the site and gives no hiking distance for it.3 No source we read describes what remains on the summit today, or whether the public can reach it.

  1. Fourth of July Peak Lookout Site, Former Fire Lookout Sites Register, http://firetower.org/lookouts/us/wa/fourth-of-july-peak-lookout-site/ (accessed 2026-10-09). ↩
  2. Fourth of July Peak Fire Lookout Tower, firelookout.com, https://www.firelookout.com/wa/fourthofjulypeak.html (accessed 2026-10-09). ↩
  3. Fourth of July Peak - LeClerc Lookout, WillhiteWeb.com, http://willhiteweb.com/fire_lookouts/fourth_of_july_peak/leclerc_lookout_175.htm (accessed 2026-10-09). ↩
  4. Fourth of July (LeClerc), Forest Lookouts (Washington), https://washingtonlookouts.weebly.com/fourth-of-july.html (accessed 2026-10-09). ↩

Sources

  1. Former Fire Lookout Sites Register (FFLOS) Gave us: name, location, county, elevation, what it is built of, register numbers, agency, ownership, 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 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: 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. WillhiteWeb.com: Washington Fire Lookouts Gave us: links WillhiteWeb.com · No licence stated; names and page links only (the site's photos and text are not reproduced). · retrieved 8 Oct 2026
  6. 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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