BORDEN
Indiana - Clark County - Indiana Department of Conservation
August 11, 1954: "The Indiana Department of Conservation announces that personnel of the Division of Forestry has moved the 80-foot Borden Fire Tower, in Clark county, to a more favorable location about 8 miles north of Salem in Washington county. In its new location the tower will connect the Skyline Tower in Jackson State Forest and the fire tower in Clark County State Forest, giving added protection to more than 150,000 acres." (Jackson County Banner)
DESIGNATION - BORDEN LOOKOUT TOWER 1947
PID - HZ2299
STATE/COUNTY- IN/CLARK
COUNTRY - US
USGS QUAD - BORDEN (2019)
STATION DESCRIPTION
DESCRIBED BY COAST AND GEODETIC SURVEY 1947 (FXP)
THIS IS A TRAVERSE STATION.
THE STATION IS THE APEX OF THE LOOKOUT TOWER ROOF. STATION IS ABOUT 3
MILES SOUTHEAST OF BORDEN AT THE TOP OF A WOODED HILL. THE
TOWER IS OF FOUR LEG STEEL TRUSS CONSTRUCTION WITH A CABIN AT THE
TOP. IT IS SILVER IN COLOR AND IS ABOUT 85 FEET HIGH. A TRAVERSE
CONNECTION WAS MEASURED TO TRIANGULATION STATION BORDEN. THE LOOKOUT
TOWER IS 16.840 METERS 55.25 FEET NORTH OF THE TRIANGULATION
STATION.
TO REACH FROM THE JUNCTION OF THE HIGHWAY AND A MACADAM CROSS ROAD IN
BORDEN, GO SOUTHEAST ON STATE HIGHWAY 60 FOR 2.8 MI. TO A
GRAVELED SIDE RD. RT., TURN RIGHT AND GO UP STEEP HILL FOR 0.6 MILE
TO A SIDE ROAD RIGHT AT TOP OF HILL, TURN SHARP RIGHT AND GO
0.1 MILE TO THE LOOKOUT TOWER ON LEFT.