KENTUCKY LOOKOUTS
BELL
Clay County
Standing per Google earth of 4/4/2023.
DESIGNATION - BELL LOOKOUT TOWER 1950
PID - GA3568
STATE/COUNTY- KY/CLAY
COUNTRY - US
USGS QUAD - BEVERLY (1979)
STATION DESCRIPTION
DESCRIBED BY COAST AND GEODETIC SURVEY 1950 (LWS)
STATION IS LOCATED ABOUT 14 MILES SOUTHEAST OF MANCHESTER. THE
STATION IS A
4-LEGGED STEEL STRUCTURE ABOUT 80 FEET HIGH WITH A
OBSERVATION ROOM ATOP PAINTED
GRAY. A TRAVERSE CONNECTION WAS MADE
FROM TRIANGULATION STATION BELL AND THE
DISTANCES WAS FOUND TO BE
1.115 METERS 03.66 FEET. THE POINT TRAVERSED TO AND
OBSERVED ON WAS
THE CENTER OF THE BASE OF THE LOOKOUT TOWER.
TO REACH THE STATION FROM THE JUNCTION OF U.S. HIGHWAY NO. 421 AND
STATE HIGHWAY NO. 80
IN MANCHESTER, GO SOUTHEAST ON STATE HIGHWAY NO. 80
FOR 6.0 MILES TO A GRAVEL T-ROAD
RIGHT, TURN RIGHT AND GO 1.0 MILE TO
WHERE ROAD FORKS, TURN LEFT AND GO 4.75 MILES TO A
REVERSE Y FORK,
TURN RIGHT AND 3.4 MILES TO WHERE ROAD FORKS, TURN RIGHT AND GO 2.1
MILES TO THE ASHER
FORK POST OFFICE ON THE RIGHT, CONTINUE FOR 0.4
MILE TO A T-ROAD RIGHT, TURN RIGHT
AND GO 0.95 MILE TO THE STATION AS
DESCRIBED.