Mount Brown Fire Lookout

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Mount Brown Fire Lookout
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Nearest city West Glacier
Coordinates 48°37′44″N113°49′58″W / 48.62889°N 113.83278°W / 48.62889; -113.83278
Built1928
MPS Glacier National Park MRA
NRHP reference No. 86003693 [1]
Added to NRHPDecember 16, 1986

The Mount Brown Fire Lookout in Glacier National Park is significant as one of a chain of staffed fire lookout posts within the park. The low two-story timber-construction structure with a pyramidal roof was built in 1928. [2] The design was a standard U.S. Forest Service plan. [3]

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  1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. April 15, 2008.
  2. "Mount Brown Fire Lookout". List of Classified Structures. National Park Service. November 14, 2008. Archived from the original on May 21, 2011.
  3. Historic Research Associates (May 1984). National Register of Historic Places Inventory-Nomination: Mount Brown Fire Lookout (pdf). National Park Service.

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Mount Brown Fire Lookout with fire resistant wrapping installed to help it withstand the Sprague Fire in 2017 Mount Brown Fire Lookout.jpg
Mount Brown Fire Lookout with fire resistant wrapping installed to help it withstand the Sprague Fire in 2017