WRONG RIDGE
Teton County - Lewis and Clark National Forest - 25N-10W-8
February 26, 1931: "National Forest improvements: Wrong Ridge lookout house, $1,223.74." (The Choteau Acantha)
September 17, 1931: "James and C.K. Spires, smoke chasers on the Lewis and Clark forest this summer, departed yesterday for their home at Athens, Ga. The former, who is a graduate of the forestry school of the University of Georgia, occupied the Bear Top lookout, and the latter the Wrong Ridge lookout." (The Choteau Acantha)
September 14, 1933: "Another lookout who has completed the season for the forest service and come out, is Julius 'Snappy' Stenson, stationed most of the summer on Wrong Ridge." (The Choteau Acantha)
November 9, 1933: "The completed projects were the construction of two telephone lines, one leading to the Mt. Wright lookout and the other to an emergency lookout on Wrong ridge." (The Choteau Acantha)
December 15, 1933: "A new telephone line has been built to the Wrong Creek lookout peak." (The Independent Record)
July 26, 1934: "Larmon Bruno has the Wrong Ridge lookout." (The Choteau Acantha)
July 25, 1935: "On the Teton district, which is under Ranger McLean and Ranger L.J. Howard, the following have been assigned to lookouts: Larmon Bruno, Wrong Ridge." (The Choteau Acantha)
June 23, 1938: "From Birch creek south to and including the north fork of Sun river, the assignments are: K.C. Baldwin of University of Idaho, Wrong Ridge lookout fireman." (The Choteau Acantha)
June 13, 1940: "The following men, together with their stations, will be employed by the service in fire prevention work this summer: Gus Kake of Choteau, Wrong ridge." (The Choteau Acantha)
National Geodetic Survey
DESIGNATION - WRONG RIDGE LOOKOUT
PID - ST0547
STATE/COUNTY- MT/TETON
COUNTRY - US
USGS QUAD - PORPHYRY REEF (1995)
STATION DESCRIPTION
DESCRIBED BY COAST AND GEODETIC SURVEY 1940 (ANS)
WRONG RIDGE FOREST SERVICE LOOKOUT HOUSE IS IN THE LEWIS AND
CLARK NATIONAL FOREST ON THE HIGHEST POINT OF A LOW WOODED RIDGE,
4 MILES N OF WRONG CREEK GUARD STATION, 35 MILES WNW OF CHOTEAU,
3/4 MILE S OF THE CONTINENTAL DIVIDE WHICH IS THE NATIONAL FOREST
BOUNDARY OF THE FLATHEAD-LEWIS AND CLARK. THE CENTER OF THE
HOUSE WAS INTERSECTED.