Prospect Peak Fire Lookout

{{Use American English|date=July 2025}} {{Use mdy dates|date=August 2023}} {{Infobox NRHP | name = Prospect Peak Fire Lookout | nrhp_type = | image = | caption = | nearest_city = [[Mineral, California]] | coordinates = {{coord|40|34|24|N|121|20|42|W|display=inline,title}} | locmapin = California#USA | built = c. 1912 | architect OR builder = | added = March 30, 1978 | area = less than one acre | refnum = 78000295<ref name="nris">{{NRISref|version=2010a}}</ref> }} The '''Prospect Peak Fire Lookout''' is a [[fire lookout]] station located on Prospect Peak in [[Lassen Volcanic National Park]], near the city of [[Mineral, California|Mineral]], [[California]]. The lookout, which was built circa 1912, is one of the oldest extant [[U.S. Forest Service]] fire lookouts in the United States. The wood-frame building is square with a pyramidal roof; its walls are mostly composed of tall windows, with [[shiplap]] siding below the windows and on the roof. This design was a standard design used by U.S. Forest Service fire lookouts at the time, and several of the other contemporary lookouts in the national park also used this style of construction. The lookout is likely now the only surviving station with this design. Though the station was ultimately abandoned and has lost its original windows and roof shingles, it is otherwise intact.<ref>{{cite web|last=Chappell|first=Gordon|title=National Register of Historic Places Inventory - Nomination Form: Prospect Peak Fire Lookout|url={{NRHP url|id=78000295}}|publisher=[[National Park Service]]|accessdate=May 16, 2013|date=June 16, 1977}}</ref>

The lookout was added to the [[National Register of Historic Places]] on March 30, 1978.<ref name="nris"/>

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==External links== *{{NRHP url|id=78000295|title=Photos from the NRHP nomination|photos=y}}

[[Category:Park buildings and structures on the National Register of Historic Places in California]] [[Category:Fire lookout towers in California]] [[Category:Fire lookout towers on the National Register of Historic Places]] [[Category:National Register of Historic Places in Lassen Volcanic National Park]] [[Category:National Register of Historic Places in Shasta County, California]]