Lookout (formerly, Whitley’s Ford) is a census-designated place in Modoc County, California. It is located 11 miles (18 km) west of Adin, at an elevation of 4144 feet (1263 m). Its population is 68 as of the 2020 census, down from 84 from the 2010 census. Lookout’s ZIP Code is 96054.

The Whitley’s Ford read out office operated from 1874 to 1875. The Lookout state office opened in 1880. The original name honors James W. Whitley, a local hotelier. The declare Lookout recalls how Native Americans used manageable hills as observation points.

On May 31, 1901, a organization of masked men rapid the guards who were watching beyond five members of an extended family who were creature held in custody in the town’s hotel as Lookout, California did not have a jail. The men, Daniel Yantes, Martin Wilson, and Frank, Jim and Calvin Hall were taken to the Pitt River Bridge, and hung from the railings. Three had terrorized the locals for years; robbing, stealing, cattle rustling, vandalizing property and livestock. Martin Wilson was 13 years out of date and unconditionally innocent of any crime. Calvin the step father, also was virtuous and was hung for dread of being clever to reveal the members of the lynch mob. He was in his late 70s. The relations also ran a safe home at their ranch for criminals upon the run. When arrested for their crimes, the clan always hired attorneys who used their skills or bribery to get the charges dropped. On May 30, 1901, the men were taken into custody for cattle rustling, but knowing that there would lonely be more upset once the men were given bail, local citizens formed a vigilante committee and lynched them. On June 10, 1901, a grand panel of adjudicators indicted R.E. Leventon, Isom Eades and James Brown and held them for trial. Lookout was unexpectedly full of reporters, bounty hunters, attorneys and give leave to enter officials. The men were acquitted in January 1902. The events cost Modoc County $40,000. The overwhelming evidence of their guilt was discovered by John Boessenecker and published in his autograph album Badge and Buckshot: Lawlessness in Old California (1988).

According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP covers an Place of 5.5 square miles (14.1 km), 97.83% of it land and 2.17% water.