Morrow Mountain
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Highest point
Elevation	2,142 feet (653 m)
Listing	New York County High Points 26th
Coordinates	42°48′45″N 75°45′03″W / 42.812372°N 75.750947°W / 42.812372; -75.750947
Geography
Location	Madison County, New York, U.S.

Morrow Mountain is a 2,142-foot (653 m) mountain, and is the highest point in Madison County, New York. A 100-foot (30 m) communication tower occupies the summit. The mountain is the primary geographical feature of Morrow Mountain State Forest, a 1,290-acre (520 ha) state forest in the towns of Georgetown and Nelson.^[1] The mountain is the former site of a 67-foot-6-inch-tall (20.57 m) steel fire lookout tower.

History

In 1940, the Civilian Conservation Corps Camp S-103 from DeRuyter built a 67-foot-6-inch-tall (20.57 m) International Derrick steel fire lookout tower on the mountain. Due to increased use of aerial fire detection, the tower ceased fire lookout operations at the end of 1970, and was later removed. Since then, a resident from New Hartford purchased the dismantled tower, and plans to rebuild it at their camp in Oppenheim.^[2]

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