Ingraham Hill is a

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in the Southern Tier of New York. It is located south-southwest of

Binghamton Binghamton () is a city in the U.S. state of New York, and serves as the county seat of Broome County. Surrounded by rolling hills, it lies in the state's Southern Tier region near the Pennsylvania border, in a bowl-shaped valley at the conflue ...

in Broome County. The mountain contains the

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and

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broadcast towers for the surrounding

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. The summit rises to an elevation of . These towers include TV stations

WBNG WBNG-TV (channel 12) is a television station in Binghamton, New York, United States, affiliated with CBS and CW+. The station is owned by Gray Television, and maintains studios on Columbia Drive in Johnson City and a transmitter on Ingraham ...

WICZ WICZ-TV (channel 40) is a television station in Binghamton, New York, United States, affiliated with Fox Broadcasting Company, Fox and MyNetworkTV. Owned by INSP (TV network), Imagicomm Communications, the station has studios on Vestal Parkway Ea ...

WIVT WIVT (channel 34) is a television station in Binghamton, New York, United States, affiliated with ABC. It is owned by Nexstar Media Group alongside low-power, Class A NBC affiliate WBGH-CD (channel 20). Both stations share studios on Ingra ...

WSKG-TV WSKG-TV (channel 46) is a PBS member television station in Binghamton, New York, United States. It is owned by the WSKG Public Telecommunications Council alongside NPR members WSKG-FM (89.3) and WSQX-FM (91.5). The three stations share studio ...

and radio stations

WNBF WNBF (1290 AM) is a commercial radio station in Binghamton, New York. It airs a talk radio format and is owned by Townsquare Media. The studios and offices are on Court Street in Binghamton. By day, WNBF is powered at 9,300 watts using a ...

WAAL WAAL (99.1 FM "The Whale") is a commercial radio station licensed to Binghamton, New York. It airs a classic rock radio format and is owned by Townsquare Media. WAAL is the oldest FM radio station in the Binghamton metropolitan area. It is an ...

WWYL WWYL (104.1 FM, branded as ''KISS 104.1'') is a radio station serving Binghamton, New York with a top 40 (CHR) format. This station is under the ownership of Townsquare Media. The station signed on July 1, 1996, as WYOS, an oldies Oldies i ...

and many more. The towers are visible throughout the region.

History

In 1950, the Conservation Department built an Aermotor LS40 steel fire lookout tower on the mountain. The tower was placed into service in 1951, reporting 6 fires and 39 visitors. Due to the increased use of aerial detection, the tower ceased fire lookout operations at the end of the 1970 fire lookout season. Sometime in the 1970s, the tower was sold to a local communications company, which removed the tower cab for use as a communications antenna tower. The tower was removed in the Fall of 2016, and the site is not open to the public.

References

{{Fire lookout towers in New York Binghamton, New York Landforms of Broome County, New York Mountains of Broome County, New York