Located in the Sierra National Forest, United States Forest Service's
Bass Lake Ranger District
The Year 2008 Miami Mountain Fire Lookout volunteer staffing orentation meeting will be held on Saturday, May 10, 2008 at 10:00AM, in the meeting room at the U.S.F.S. North Fork Ranger Station. The station is located at the intersection of Road 222 and Road 225 in the town of North Fork, California. If you are a resident of Eastern Madera County or Mariposa County and would be interested in volunteering to help staff the lookout in the Year 2008 Fire Season please feel free to contact me (Rich Camp) for further information or call the North Fork Ranger Station at (559) 877-2218 for directions on how to find the meeting.
Miami Lookout was established and put into service by the Forest Service in 1934. The only perminent lookout on the Sierra National Forest identified in 1933 visibility study that had not previously been used as a lookout. The tower's map location is Township 6 South, Range 20 East, Section 11 on the Sierra National Forest Map.
Miami Mountain Lookout was originally constructed in 1934. The tower is a 20 foot steel non-battered tower with "I" beam corner posts and a C-3 cab with a 14 x 14 foot hip roofed wood lookout house with door in center of wall, with 2-pane windows, and shutter outriggers on top.
The volunteers work in cooperation with the United States Forest Service, "Sierra National Forest" on a frequency of 172.225 Mhz and the California Department of Forestry, "Madera, Mariposa, Merced Ranger Unit" on a frequency of 151.460 Mhz in the detection and reporting of potentially damaging wildfires. Miami Mountain is located on the Mariposa, Madera County line one mile west of California State Highway 49.
Miami is staffed during the declaired fire season which begins about May 15th of each year. The season will continue untill October or November when one inch of precipitation has occured and the declared fire season ends.
Miami Lookout directly overlooks the towns of Nipinnawasee, Ahwahnee, Bailey Flats, Raymond, Coarsegold and Oakhurst in Madera County, and Ponderosa Basin, Usona, Bootjack, Lush Meadows, Mariposa, and Oakgrove in Mariposa County.
The lookout overlooks both State and Federal lands including (reduced resolution photos and description) below:
North to the Northern Mariposa County Line and Northeast to Yosemite National Park area,
West to the edge of theSan Joaquin Valley floor at the Madera Irrigation Canel and the Eastern Merced County Line area,
South to the Thornberry Mountain area and the San Joaquin River Valley at Millerton Lake area,
East into Southwestern Yosemite National Park and the Sierra National Forest to Shuttey Peak area.
Photos provided courtesy of Alice Ketman.
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