Fort Klamath Lookout Site (Grange Hall Tower)

In 1948, the lookout was James D. Hale stationed at Fort Klamath. Likely for a living quarters, the Forest Service was planning on moving the Sevenmile Guard Station to Fort Klamath but the school (who donated the land) objected to this plan as they thought the school might expand to that area where the Guard Station would be. The school board was ok with the building of a tower, just not a dwelling.

In 1949, Mr. and Mrs. Brady Broxson were assigned to the Grange Hall tower at Fort Klamath. At the end of September, the station was even called back into service when all the other FS stations were seasonally laid off. KFPA lookouts are still on the job.

In 1950, a closure order was in the Sevenmile Creek area in Klamath County. To get entrance, a permits was available at the Klamath Falls ranger's office or at the Ft. Klamath lookout.

In 1955, there was some kind of talk about a new tower. A General Integration Inspection said the following: Lookout detection seems to be generally pretty good. The forest feels that there is a definite hole in the Seven-Mile and Three-Mile areas on the east side of the Klamath District. Their proposal is that a lookout be built in the vicinity of Fort Klamath to look back into these areas. At the present time there is an Indian Service lookout 3 or 4 miles further east from this proposed point but the forest believes it cannot depend upon the Indian Service lookout because of the uncertainty of manning under the present plans of operation. Fire Control has approved a lookout in the Fort Klamath area and the forest is to arrange for the purchase of an adequate site for it.

In 1958, a 20 foot all steel lookout live-in tower was constructed at the southwest edge of the town of Fort Klamath about a block off the highway.

In 1964, the guard in the Fort Klamath Lookout Tower observed a fire in an area being logged by a commercial timber operator at 6 a.m. in the morning. The lookout reported the flames to the ranger station at Lake of the Woods where fire fighters were dispatched to the scene.

In 1970, the lookout tower was airlifted to Sugarpine Mountain. There it made the lookout on Round Butte obsolete and reduced the need for having a tower on Yamsay Mountain.