FOREST LOOKOUTS
  • IDAHO
  • ADAMS COUNTY
    • Bacon Hill
    • Council Mountain
    • Crooked River Peak
    • Granite Mountain
    • Horse Mountain
    • Indian (Mica)
    • Jackley
    • Kinney Point
    • Lick Creek Point
    • Lockwood Point
    • Peck Mountain
    • Pollock Mountain
    • Smith Mountain
  • BANNOCK COUNTY
    • Chinks Peak
    • Scout Mountain
    • Sedgewick Peak
  • BEAR LAKE COUNTY
    • Meade Peak
  • BENEWAH COUNTY
    • Beaver Mountain
    • Beaver Ridge
    • Carpenter Mountain
    • Charles Butte
    • Davis Point
    • East Dennis
    • Emida Peak
    • Engle Mountain
    • John Point
    • Lindstrom Peak
    • Nakarna Mountain
    • Pettis Point
    • Reeds Baldy
    • Rochat Peak
    • St. Joe Baldy
    • Squaw Hump
    • Sunset Mountain
    • Tyson Peak
    • West Dennis
    • Willow Peak
  • BINGHAM COUNTY
    • East Butte
  • BLAINE COUNTY
    • Bald Mountain
    • Bell Mountain
    • Red Hill
  • BOISE COUNTY
    • Bald Mountain
    • Bull Trout Point
    • Deadwood
    • Dry Buck Mountain
    • Hawley Mountain
    • Jackson Peak
    • Jackson Peak
    • Observation Peak
    • Packer John
    • Picket Mountain
    • Pilot Peak
    • Red Mountain
    • Scott Mountain
    • Shaffer Butte
    • Stevens Point
    • Sunset Mountain
    • Thorn Creek Butte
    • Warm Springs Point
  • BONNER COUNTY
    • Antelope Mountain
    • Atlasta
    • Barton Hump
    • Bear Creek
    • Bee Top Mountain
    • Benning
    • Big Meadows
    • Binarch Mountain
    • Blacktail Mountain
    • Blacktail Mountain
    • Blanchard
    • Blue Mountain
    • Bottle Bay
    • Boulder Mountain
    • Bugle Ridge
    • Butler
    • Cape Horn Peak
    • Caribou (Association)
    • Caribou Hill
    • Clagstone
    • Cottonwood Point
    • Cuban Hill
    • Delyle Ridge
    • East Fork Peak
    • Elk Ridge
    • Elmira Peak
    • Experimental
    • Experimental Spur
    • Faset Peak
    • Gisborne Mountain
    • Gold Peak
    • Granite Mountain
    • Grouse Mountain
    • Honey Mountain
    • Hoodoo
    • Howe Mountain
    • Huckleberry Mountain
    • Jasper Mountain
    • Johnson Peak
    • Lakeview
    • Lakeview
    • Lightning Mountain
    • Lightning Peak
    • Little Blacktail
    • Little Grass
    • Long Mountain
    • Lost Creek Ridge
    • Lunch Peak
    • Moose Mountain
    • Mount Pend Oreille
    • Newport Hill
    • Nickleplate Mountain
    • Packsaddle Mountain
    • Plowboy Mountain
    • Poirier Tree Farm
    • Prater Mountain
    • Quartz Mountain
    • Rapid Lightning
    • Reeder Mountain
    • Roberts mountain
    • Round Top Mountain
    • Sandpoint Baldy
    • Scotchman Peak
    • Scout Point
    • Shaffer Peak
    • Smith Mountain
    • Spruce Divide
    • Stone Johnny
    • Strawberry Mountain
    • Sundance Mountain
    • Tola P:oint
    • Trestle Peak
    • Trout Peak
    • Uleda Point
    • Watson Mountain
    • Whitetail Butte
  • BONNEVILLE COUNTY
    • Black Mountain
  • BOUNDARY COUNTY
    • Bald Eagle
    • Bear Point
    • Bethlehem Mountain
    • Black Mountain
    • Blue Joe
    • Bonners Ferry R.S.
    • Browns mountain
    • Buck Mountain
    • Buckhorn Mountain
    • Burton Peak
    • Bussard Mountain
    • Camels Prairie
    • Canida Peak
    • Caribou Ridge
    • Cedar Ridge
    • Clifty Mountain
    • Continental Mountain
    • Cooks Peak
    • Copeland
    • Copper Mountain
    • Cutoff Peak
    • Deer Ridge
    • Dodge Peak
    • Early Ridge
    • Eddy Peak
    • Farnham Peak
    • Fisher Peak
    • French Ridge
    • Goat Mountain
    • Goblin Knob
    • Grass Mountain
    • Green Bonnet
    • Hall Mountain
    • Harrison Peak
    • Harvey (Mission)
    • Hogue Mountain
    • Horton Ridge
    • Hughes Ridge
    • Hunt Peak
    • Katka Peak
    • Little Snowy Top
    • Lookout Mountain
    • McCormick Ridge
    • Myrtle Peak
    • Queen Mountain
    • Roman Nose Peak
    • Sand Peak
    • Smith Peak
    • Solomon Mountain
    • Squawman Peak
    • Timber Ridge
    • Tungston Mountain
    • Twentymile Peak
    • Two Tail
    • Wall Mountain
    • West Fork
    • White Mountain
  • BUTTE COUNTY
    • Big Southern Butte
  • CAMAS COUNTY
    • Fairfield
    • Iron Mountain
    • Lick Creek
    • Paradise Peak
  • CANYON COUNTY
    • Big Tower
  • CASSIA COUNTY
    • Mt. Harrison
    • Pike Mountain
    • Trapper Peak
  • CLARK COUNTY
    • Lookout Butte
    • Lookout Point
  • CLEARWATER COUNTY
    • Aldermand Ridge
    • Angel Butte
    • Armstrong Peak
    • Balancing Rock
    • Bald Knob
    • Bald Mountain
    • Bar Point
    • Bear Butte
    • Beaver Butte
    • Benton Butte
    • Bertha Hill
    • Big Horn Point
    • Billings
    • Birch Ridge
    • Black Mountain
    • Blacklead Mountain
    • BM Hill
    • Boehls Butte
    • Brown's Creek #1
    • Brown's Creek #2
    • Browns Rock
    • Bruin Hill
    • Buck Butte
    • Cave Point
    • Chateau Rock
    • Clarke Mountain
    • Cold Spring
    • Cook Mountain
    • Crooked Fork
    • Dan Lee (Dewey)
    • Deadhorse
    • Doris Point
    • Dull Axe
    • Eagle Point
    • Elk Butte
    • Elk Mountain
    • Fly Hill
    • Gold Butte
    • Green Mountain
    • Hemlock Butte.
    • Horseshoe Lake
    • Huckleberry Butte
    • Jericho Mountain
    • Lean-to Ridge
    • Little Green Mountain
    • LUNDE PEAK
    • Orofino Creek
    • Osier Ridge
    • Pot Mountain
    • Scofield
    • Scurvy Mountain
    • Shanghai
    • Silver Butte
    • Stocking Meadows
    • The Nub
    • Township Butte
    • Wallow Mountain
    • Whiskey Butte
  • CUSTER COUNTY
    • Basin Butte
    • Big Soldier
    • Bowery Guard Station
    • Cape Horn Peak
    • Cottonwood Point
    • Cougar Creek
    • Custer
    • Deadwood Point
    • Estes Mountain
    • Feltham Creek Point
    • Greyhound Mountain
    • Grouse Creek Peak
    • Grouse Peak
    • Horton Peak
    • Iron Creek Point
    • Little Soldier Mountain
    • Lookout Mountain
    • Loon Creek Point
    • McGowan Peak
    • Meridian Peak
    • Mount Greylock
    • Pinyon Peak
    • Potaman Peak
    • Red Wing (Sheep)
    • Rookie Point
    • Ruffneck Peak
    • Sawtooth Valley
    • Sheep Mountain
    • Sherman Peak (Trap)
    • Sliderock Ridge
    • Summit Rock
    • Thompson (Iron)
    • Wildhorse
  • ELMORE COUNTY
    • Bennett Mountain
    • Cayuse Point
    • Danskin Peak
    • Grouse Creek Butte
    • HORSE HEAVEN (e)
    • House Mountain
    • Lava Mountain
    • Sheep Mountain
    • Steel Mountain
    • Swanholm
    • Trinity Peak
  • FREMONT COUNTY
    • Big Springs
    • Bishop Mountain
    • Elk Butte
    • High Point
    • Warm River Butte
  • GEM COUNTY
    • Squaw Butte
  • IDAHO COUNTY (A-L)
    • Anderson Butte
    • Ant Hill
    • Archer Point
    • Arctic Point
    • Austin Ridge
    • Bad Luck Point
    • Bailey Mountain
    • Bald Mountain (CNF)
    • Bally Mountain
    • Barren Hill
    • Bat Point
    • Battle Creek
    • Bear Mountain
    • Bear Pete
    • Bear Point
    • Bear Wallow
    • Beargrass
    • Beaver Jack
    • Beaver Ridge
    • Bell Point
    • Bemis Point
    • Big Burn Point
    • Big Creek (Patrol)
    • Big Creek Point
    • Big Hill
    • Big Hill (P)
    • Big Rock (62)
    • Big Sand
    • Black Butte
    • Blackhawk Mountain
    • Blacktail (Frisco)
    • Blacktail Butte
    • Blue Joint
    • Buffalo Hump
    • Burnt Knob
    • Burnt Knob
    • Burnt Strip
    • Butts Creek Point
    • Carey Dome
    • Castle Butte
    • Cedar Knob
    • Chair Point
    • Chicken Peak
    • Cold Mountain
    • Coolwater
    • Corral Hill
    • Cottonwood Butte
    • Cottonwood Butte
    • Cub Point
    • Diablo Mountain
    • Double Creek Ridge
    • Dry Diggins
    • Eakin Point
    • Elk Summit
    • Elkhorn Mountain
    • Falls Point
    • Fish Butte
    • Fish Creek
    • Fog Mountain
    • Freeman Peak
    • Gardiner Peak
    • Grave Butte
    • Grave Peak
    • Grave Point
    • Green Mountain
    • Grouse Ridge
    • Hard Butte
    • Harrington Mountain
    • Heavens Gate
    • Hells Half Acre Mountain
    • Hershey Point
    • Hida Point
    • High Spring
    • Highline
    • Indian Hill
    • Indian Post Office
    • Indian Ridge (Pettibone)
    • Iron Mountain
    • Jay Point
    • Jerry Johnson
    • John Day Mountain
    • Lake Creek Point
    • Lochsa Peak
    • Lone Pine
    • Lookout Butte
  • IDAHO COUNTY (M-W)
    • Magruder Mountain
    • Mammouth Mountain
    • Maple Lake
    • Marble Point
    • Marshall Point
    • Maxwell Point
    • McConnell Mountain
    • Meadow Creek
    • Meeker Ridge
    • Middle Butte
    • Mink Point
    • Moccasin Point
    • Mocus Point
    • Moe Peak
    • Mount Aura
    • Mount George
    • Mud Creek
    • Nelson (Mill Creek)
    • Nezperce Peak
    • Nolan Point
    • North Pole
    • Nut Basin
    • Old Man Point
    • Oregon Butte
    • Pettibone Ridge
    • Pilot Knob
    • Porters Mountain
    • Puzzle Point
    • Quartz Ridge
    • Ramey Ridge
    • Rock Rabbit Point
    • Rocky Point
    • Rocky Point
    • Roots Knob
    • Round Top Mountain
    • Salmon Mountain
    • Savage Ridge
    • Shearer Peak
    • SEABURG POINT
    • Sheep Hill
    • Sheepeater Mountain
    • Shissler Peak
    • Slate Point
    • Spot Mountain
    • Square Mountain
    • Squaw Peak (Wahoo)
    • Steamboat Peak
    • Stoddard Creek Point
    • Swet Lake
    • Three Prong
    • Tony Point
    • Twin Butte
    • Vance Mountain
    • VERMILLION PEAK
    • War Eagle
    • Weasel Point
    • Weitas Butte
    • Wolf Point
    • Wood Hump
    • Woodrat Mountain
    • Wounded Doe Ridge
    • Wylies Peak
  • KOOTENAI COUNTY
    • Bernard Peak
    • Boise Peak
    • Boundary Peak
    • Buckles
    • Burnt Cabin Knob
    • Canfield Butte
    • Carrill Peak
    • Cataract Peak
    • Cedar Mountain
    • Chilco North
    • Chilco South
    • Colt Mountain
    • Copper Mountain
    • Dudley Peak
    • Eagle Peak
    • Echo Peak
    • Elk Mountain
    • Frost Peak
    • Hamilton Mountain
    • Hemlock Mountain
    • Huckleberry Mountain
    • Hudlow Mountain
    • Jackknife Peak
    • Spades Mountain
    • Swan Peak
  • LATAH COUNTY
    • Bald Mountain
    • Ball Butte
    • Beals Butte
    • Boulder Mountain
    • Chambers Hill
    • East Gold Hill
    • Flynn Butte
    • Gold Hill
    • Mason Butte
    • McGary Butte
    • Mica Mountain
    • Mineral Mountain
    • Mission Mountain
    • Moscow Mountain (East)
    • Moscow Mountain (West)
    • Mount Margaret
    • Potato Hill
    • Preston Knob (ELO)
    • Prospect Peak
    • Rocky Point
    • Sand Creek
    • Sherwin Point
    • Three Tree Butte
    • Turnbow Point (Patrol)
    • West Emerald
    • West Gold Hill
    • West Twin
  • LEMHI COUNTY
    • Anderson Mountain
    • Alan Mountain
    • Baldy
    • Beartrap
    • Blackbird Mountain
    • Blue Nose
    • Corn Lake
    • Duck Creek Point
    • Flume Creek Point
    • Fly Creek Point
    • Gant Mountain
    • Granite Mountain
    • Haystack Mountain
    • Horse Heaven
    • Hot Springs
    • Indian Peak
    • Indian Point
    • Jureano Mountain
    • Lake Mountain
    • Long Tom
    • Martin Mountain
    • McEleny Mountain
    • Meyers Cove
    • Middle Fork Peak
    • Napolean Hill
    • Oreana
    • Poison Peak
    • Red Rock Mountain
    • Sagebrush
    • Sal Mountain
    • Sheep Mountain...
    • Sheepeater Point
    • Sheephorn Mountain
    • Skunk Camp
    • Sleeping Deer Mountain
    • Square Top
    • Squaw Peak
    • Stein Mountain
    • Stormy Peak
    • Sugarloaf
    • Swan Peak
    • Taylor Mountain
    • Twin Peaks
    • Ulysses Mountain
    • West Horse
    • White Goat
    • Woodtick Summit
  • LINCOLN COUNTY
    • Notch Butte
  • MADISON COUNTY
    • Lookout Mountain
  • MINIDOKA COUNTY
    • Kimama Butte
  • OWYHEE COUNTY
    • South Mountain
  • PAYETTE COUNTY
    • Sand Hollow
  • POWER COUNTY
    • Mosby Butte
  • SHOSHONE COUNTY
    • Adams Peak
    • Agatha Creek
    • Anthony Peak
    • Arid Peak
    • Avery Hill
    • Bad Tom
    • Bald Mountain..
    • Bathtub Mountain
    • Bearskull
    • Beaver Peak
    • Beaver Peak
    • Beetle Hump
    • Berge Peak
    • Bernier Point
    • Big Creek
    • Big Dick Point
    • Binocular Point
    • Black Peak
    • Blackjack Peak
    • Bumblebee Peak
    • Cedar Mountain
    • Cemetery Ridge
    • Conrad Peak
    • Cougar Peak..
    • Dunn Peak
    • Flash Peak
    • Freezeout Ridge (Mtn)
    • Grandmother Mountain
    • Grassy Mountain
    • Griffith Peak
    • Grizzly Mountain
    • Hoyt Mountain
    • Huckleberry Mountain
    • Hulliman Peak
    • Incline Ridge
    • Kellogg Peak
    • Lemonade Peak
    • Little Guard Peak
    • Little Joe Mountain
    • Mallard Peak
    • McDonald Peak
    • Middle Sister Mountain
    • North Snow Peak
    • Pine Point
    • Polaris Peak
    • Pulaski
    • Quarles Peak
    • Snow Peak
    • Spyglass Peak
    • Striped Peak
    • Sunset Peak
    • Surveyors Ridge
    • Taylor Peak
    • West Elk Peak
    • White Peak
  • TETON COUNTY
    • Garns Mountain
  • TWIN FALLS COUNTY
    • Castleford
    • Evans Ranch
    • Unnamed #1
    • Unnamed 2
  • VALLEY COUNTY
    • Acorn Butte
    • Artillary Dome
    • Bear Creek Point
    • Bear Valley Mountain
    • Bearskin
    • Big Baldy Mountain
    • Black Butte....
    • Black Mare
    • Boulder Mountain
    • Brundage
    • Center Mountain
    • Chilcoot Peak
    • Cougar Rock
    • Deer Creek Point
    • Duck Lake
    • Eagan Point
    • Eagle Rock
    • Eagle's Nest
    • East Mountain
    • Eureka Point
    • Fletcher Butte
    • Gold Fork
    • Gold Fork Rock
    • Gray's Peak (North)
    • Horse Mountain
    • Indian Ridge
    • Krassel Knob
    • Lightning Peak
    • Little Baldy
    • Log Mountain (Baldy)
    • Lookout Mountain
    • Lookout Peak
    • Meadow Creek
    • Miners Peak
    • Missouri Ridge
    • Morehead Mountain >
      • Work Party - 2015
    • No Business
    • Norton Ridge
    • Parks Peak
    • Pearl Creek Point
    • Pilot Peak
    • Point 7965
    • Rice Peak (Blue Point)
    • Rush Creek Point
    • Shellrock Peak
    • Short Creek
    • Silver Creek Point
    • Split Creek Point
    • Tailholt Peak
    • Teapot Dome
    • Thunderbolt Mountain
    • Tripod Peak
    • Two Point Peak
    • Whitehawk
    • Williams Peak.
  • WASHINGTON COUNTY
    • Cuddy Point
    • Sturgill Peak
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ROMAN NOSE PEAK

Boundary County - Kaniksu National Forest -
​61N-2W-21
June 30,1916:  "Lookout maps have been prepared by placing a contour map on a drawing board and then covering the same with shellac and varnish.  The point corresponding to the exact location of the lookout is placed on these maps, and with this point as a center a circular protractor is fastened to the map which reads in degrees.  This board is then oriented and placed placed on the corresponding peak and is used as a means of taking observations on fires."   (Pend Oreille Review)

September 29, 1921:   "The forest service is building a telephone line to Roman Nose lookout via Samuels and Pack River.  When completed, every lookout or fire station will have a telephone connection with the ranger station at Naples and also can be connected to the main line if wanted by the chief forester at Sandpoint."   (Bonners Ferry Herald)

July 31, 1947:   "The Kaniksu had fought more lightning fires so far this year than in many years past.  The forest service hoped that Roman Nose, probably the last lookout to be placed for the season in North Idaho, would provide the last ounce of protection needed in what could be a touch-and-go fire month.  It was the 64th lookout to be manned on the forest, but there were 62 more in case of emergency.
      Assigned to the lookout was 20-year old Bill Mimnaugh of Spokane, Wash., just graduated from high school after an 18-month tour of duty in the navy.
      As usual, the forest service figured on making one pack trip to Roman Nose -- taking Bill's supplies, his personal gear and fire fighting equipment.  A second trip, however, proved to be necessary when it was found that the weight of last winter's ice had damaged the tower considerably."   (Sandpoint News-Bulletin)

May 21, 1953:   "Mr. and Mrs. Anderson are both students at Brigham Young university at Provo.  He is a sophomore majoring in meteorology.
​      They expect to return to Sandpoint in early June as he will be employed by the forest service to serve at Roman Nose lookout station during the summer months."   (Sandpoint News Bulletin)

​July 15, 1954:   "The Kaniksu forest lookout towers at Roman Nose and Bald Eagle have been activated since July 4, according to Floyd R. Cowles assistant forest ranger.  These two lookouts assisted by an air patrol, will constitute this year's primary fire detection system for the district.
      The use of high priority lookout towers with daily aircraft patrol greatly increases the effectiveness of detection.  This method was employed last year with these same towers together with lookouts on the other seven districts on the Kaniksu forest.
      Gary D. Millard, Dover, is spending his first summer as a lookout at Roman Nose."   (Sandpoint News Bulletin)


August 26, 1954:   "Gary Millard came home from Roman Nose lookout Friday and took up his old job at Shiloh guard service station Monday."   (Sandpoint News-Bulletin)

July 14, 1960:   "Roman Nose lookout, situated at an elevation of 7,264 feet, is the district's primary fire detection station.  Strategically located, it also houses an automatic radio repeater station during the summer, which gives the forest's radio communication system a much wider and more efficient coverage.
      Manning the lookout this year are Mr. and Mrs. Oren D. Etter of Naples.  An experienced lookout, Etter manned Roman Nose during the 1959 fire season also.
      Upon opening the lookout, reported that the tower on Roman Nose had been broken into, apparently last fall.  Numerous items of forest service equipment missing."   (Sandpoint News Bulletin)

September 3, 1967:  "In Idaho's Sundance fire, an 18-year-old fire lookout made it to safety as he fled a windswept wall of flame that destroyed his lookout tower atop 7,264-foot Roman Nose Peak, 12 miles east of Priest lake.
     Using a portable radio, the unidentified youth followed instructions of a Forest service dispatcher and found refuge on a nearby rocky cliff.  He was rescued by helicopter early Saturday."  (Great Bend Daily Tribune - Kansas)

September 3, 1967:
  "An 18-year-old Sandpoint fire lookout, forced from his station atop 7,264-foot Roman Nose Peak and trapped on a nearby rock island by the Sundance fire explosion, directed his own rescue Saturday.
     Ordered out of his fire tower just minutes before it went up in raging flames, Randy Langston raced the flames to his rocky shelter and then using a mobile radio, talked to Forest Service dispatchers throughout the night until he could be flown to safety by helicopter Saturday morning.
     A Kaniksu National Forest official said it became apparent about 9 p.m. that the fire, whipped up by 60 mile an-hour winds, was going to endanger Langston and his tower near Bonner's Ferry.
     Gene Napier, forest service dispatcher, radioed Langston to get off the tower and head down the trail.  Langston took his portable two-way radio and obeyed.  But he was too late.  Already the fire had swept across the trail and cut off his only escape.
     'That's when he started to get scared,' the dispatcher said.  Napier told him to get back to the tower.  But that was gone too.  Napier sent Langston to some nearby rock cliffs.
     Langston found a haven under a rocky ledge.  From there he watched 'Sundance roar around him through the long night.
      'It burned everything around him,' a forest service official said.
     Napier kept in touch with the youth throughout the fiery night, getting reports on the fire and bolstering his courage." (Billings Gazette)

January 4, 1978:   "Vandals apprehended-- Three juvenile offenders who vandalized the Roman Nose Lookout, on September 26, 1976, have been apprehended by FBI and Forest Service Special Agents.  The trio was remanded to the custody of the State Department of Health and Welfare and their families have agreed to repay nearly $4,000 in damages caused during the incident."   (Sandpoint News Bulletin)

1999:   The tower was destroyed in a wind storm.

National Geodetic Survey


DESIGNATION - ROMAN NOSE LOOKOUT TOWER
PID - TO1094
STATE/COUNTY- ID/BOUNDARY
COUNTRY - US
USGS QUAD - ROMAN NOSE (1996)

STATION DESCRIPTION

DESCRIBED BY COAST AND GEODETIC SURVEY 1964 (JCC)
THE STATION IS ABOUT 24 MILES NORTH OF SANDPOINT, 13 MILES
WEST-SOUTHWEST OF BONNERS FERRY AND 10 MILES NORTH-NORTHWEST
OF NAPLES. IT IS A FOUR LEGGED STRUCTURE HAVING AN OBSERVATION
CABIN MOUNTED ON TOP. THE OVERALL HEIGHT IS 40 FEET.

A TRAVERSE CONNECTION WAS MADE FROM TRIANGULATION STATION
ROMAN NOSE 1936, THE DISTANCE BEING 17.82 FEET OR 5.431 METERS
WEST.
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