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Fire lookout · Crenshaw County, Alabama

Luverne Lookout Tower

100-foot MC-39 Aermotor tower in Crenshaw County, built 1948 by the Forestry Commission; removed before April 2019, with a March 2013 dismantling also reported.

Closed

The site is closed to visitors. No standing tower is recorded at the site

Visit & stay

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Access

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Can you climb it?
Unknown
Road to the top?
Unknown
Staffing
Unknown

Facts

Status
Standing sources disagree
Type
Cab on a tower100-foot MC-39 Aermotor tower with 7-by-7-foot cabThe design: Aermotor MC-39
Built of
SteelGoing by its design; no source says so in words.
Built
1948
Height
100 ft (30.5 m)
Elevation
449 ft (137 m)
Agency
Alabama Forestry Commission
Land
State land
Location
Crenshaw County, Alabama
Coordinates
31.69928, −86.23980
This entry
VerifiedResearched, then checked independently. Updated 8 Oct 2026.
Firefinder id
us-al-luverne

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History

Then and now

  1. 1948 BuiltBuilt by the Forestry CommissionSources: nhlr.org, firetower.org
  2. No record between 1948 and 2009
  3. 2009 Added to the National Historic Lookout RegisterRegistered June 23, 2009Source: nhlr.org
  4. 2013 RemovedForest Lookouts: dismantled and shipped to New York to be restored and placed at a new locationSource: easternuslookouts.weebly.com
  5. 2019 RemovedNHLR and former-site listing: removed prior to April 2019Sources: nhlr.org, firetower.org
  6. 2020 Added to the Former Fire Lookout Sites RegisterFormer-site listing registered March 25, 2020Source: firetower.org
  7. 2024 EventFormer-site photo shows the tower foundation, January 2024Source: firetower.org
  8. TodayStandingIt still stands, as far as our sources know.

Old maps of this spot

USGS topographic maps from the years a lookout stood may show it, often as a small symbol labelled “Lookout”. See the old topo maps around it on the Firefinder map, or find every scanned sheet of this spot on USGS TopoView (click the spot there to list them, with dates and downloads).

Story

Researched 8 Oct 2026, fact-checked.

Luverne Lookout stood in Crenshaw County, Alabama, and the Alabama Forestry Commission administered it.1,2 The Register says the commission built it in 1948 as a 100-foot MC-39 Aermotor with a 7-by-7-foot cab.1 It also says the tower was once the county's last fire tower.1

The sources disagree about when it came down. A Forest Lookouts page says that in March 2013 the tower was taken down and sent to New York, to be restored and set up somewhere new.3 The Register says it was removed before April 2019.1,2

The Register registered the tower on June 23, 2009, and the former-site listing followed on March 25, 2020.1,2 A photo on the former-site listing shows the tower's foundation in January 2024.2 Since the Register says the tower is gone, there is no standing tower to climb.1 The sources say nothing about who staffed it, what fires it watched, or whether the public may visit the site.

  1. Luverne Lookout Tower, National Historic Lookout Register, http://nhlr.org/lookouts/us/al/luverne-lookout-tower/ (accessed 2026-10-08). ↩
  2. Luverne Lookout Site, Former Fire Lookout Sites Register, http://firetower.org/lookouts/us/al/luverne-lookout-site/ (accessed 2026-10-08). ↩
  3. Luverne, Forest Lookouts, https://easternuslookouts.weebly.com/luverne.html (accessed 2026-10-08). ↩

Photos

Photo of Luverne Lookout Tower
Photo: National Historic Lookout Register (nhlr.org) · All rights reserved · source
Photo of Luverne Lookout Tower
Photo: Former Fire Lookout Sites Register (firetower.org) · All rights reserved · source
Tower foundation in January 2024
Tower foundation in January 2024 (2024)Photo: Al Pelham, via Former Fire Lookout Sites Register (firetower.org) · All rights reserved · source

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Where sources disagree

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  • Sources disagree on whether it still stands.

    • NHLR: Standing
    • FFLOS: Gone
    • FOREST LOOKOUTS -- eastern US (easternuslookouts.weebly.com): Gone

    NHLR lists lookouts that were standing when registered.

Sources

  1. National Historic Lookout Register (NHLR) Gave us: name, location, county, elevation, what it is built of, status, register numbers, agency, dates, photos, links National Historic Lookout Register (nhlr.org) · All rights reserved (American Resources, Inc.); facts extracted only, no prose copied. · retrieved 4 Oct 2026
  2. Former Fire Lookout Sites Register (FFLOS) Gave us: register numbers, dates, photos, links Former Fire Lookout Sites Register (firetower.org) · All rights reserved (American Resources, Inc.); facts extracted only, no prose copied. · retrieved 4 Oct 2026
  3. FOREST LOOKOUTS -- eastern US (easternuslookouts.weebly.com) Gave us: type, ownership, links easternuslookouts.weebly.com · No licence stated; facts only (county, coordinates where the page's own map widget gives them, status, height, design hints, register links). The site's own historical quotes, newspaper citations and narrative are not reproduced. · retrieved 8 Oct 2026
  4. Firefinder research Gave us: summary, design, height, agency, access, dates, links, fact-check Firefinder research (sources cited in the story footnotes) · Our own research notes; each fact cites its source in the lookout's story

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