KLICKITAT COUNTY
DYMOND GAP
State Department of Forestry
5N-12E-12
5N-12E-12
November 5, 1937: "The lookout station being built by the State Fire Association on Panakanic Mountain is nearing completion and is easily seen from our valley." (Mt. Adams Sun)
1937: A new 100-foot treated timber tower was erected. (Biennial Report of the Forestry Division)
May 30, 1940: "A new sign for the Dymond Gap Fire Lookout station was installed this week at the forks of the Laurel-Glenwood road. Lloyd Caryl of Trout Lake is to be stationed there as lookout this year. Robert Pearson, who formerly occupied that position will be stationed at the Fire Hall in Glenwood as assistant to Marvin Jemtegaard, who is fire warden for this section. The sign for Dymond Gap was made at the Rainier CCC camp and gives the elevation of the 100 foot tower as 3020 feet. Recordings for the past week on their hygrothermograph registered 86 degrees as the highest temperature and 28 degrees Saturday night as the lowest. Patrol duty and repairing of telephone lines have occupied the state crew this week. Three lines to Trout Lake, Liberty Bond and to the lookout on Dymond Butte, all have to be kept in condition." (Goldendale Sentinel)
October 10, 1940: "The fire season practically ended October 1 with the lay off of Llyod Caryl, Trout Lake fire warden, stationed as lookout on Dymond Butte, south of Laurel, and the closure of the 100 foot lookout tower." (Goldendale Sentinel)
October 24, 1940: "Twelve miles of state owned telephone line from the fire hall here to the lookout tower on Dymond Butte has been rebuilt when new poles were installed and wires restrung by Marvin Jemptegaard, state forest employee." (Goldendale Sentinel)
May 26, 1955: "Donna Kuhnhausen is on the lookout at Dymond Gap. She will be there for a week then Mary Gribner will go there and Donna to Gray Back Lookout." (Mt. Adams Sun)
May 24, 1956: "Miss Camille Jaquith left Sunday evening for Diamond Gap lookout station. She will stay three days till school is out, then Judy Perry will take over and Miss Jaquith will go to Gray Back lookout." (Mt. Adams Sun)
September 6, 1956: "Jackie Ford is going on the Lookout at Dymond Gap Sept. 4 as the girl now there will go to school." (Mt. Adams Sun)
June 26, 1958: "All trees marked with yellow paint (to be cut to provide unobstructed view from Diamond Gap fire lookout station), comprising approximately 63,000 bd. ft. of Douglas fir and 2,000 bd. ft. of white fir. 10 acres more or less." (Mt. Adams Sun)
June 6, 1963: "Miss Julie Thomas left last week to spend the summer at a lookout tower at Laurel." (Mt. Adams Sun)
July 6, 1967: "Newlyweds Jacqueline and Michael Templeton, after the reception the young couple traveled to the Oregon Coast. They are now at home on the Dymond Gap Lookout in Glenwood. They will return to Pullman in the fall where the groom will be a senior at Washington State University." (Mt. Adams Sun)
1978: Removed