Fire lookout · Choctaw County, Alabama
Womack Hill Fire Tower
1951 100-foot Aermotor MC-39 fire tower in Choctaw County, Alabama, administered by the Alabama Forestry Commission and NHLR-registered in 2010; little else documented.
- Standing
- Access unknown
- Verified
Visit & stay
Not rentable. As far as we know, this lookout cannot be booked for overnight stays.
Access
Access unknown
We do not know the access rules. Check with the land manager before you go.
- Can you climb it?
- Unknown
- Road to the top?
- Unknown
- Staffing
- Unknown
Facts
- Status
- Type
- Cab on a tower100-foot Aermotor MC-39 tower with 7 by 7 foot cabThe design: Aermotor MC-39
- Built of
- SteelGoing by its design; no source says so in words.
- Built
- 1951
- Height
- 100 ft (30.5 m)
- Elevation
- 235 ft (72 m)
- Agency
- Alabama Forestry Commission
- Land
- State land
- Location
- Choctaw County, Alabama
- Coordinates
- 31.86217, −88.19508
- Registers
- This entry
- VerifiedResearched, then checked independently. Updated 8 Oct 2026.
- Firefinder id
us-al-womack-hill
View from the cab
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History
Then and now
- 1951 BuiltConstructed in 1951 per the register; a local blog gives the same yearSources: nhlr.org, jacksonsramblings.com
- No record between 1951 and 2010
- 2010 Added to the National Historic Lookout RegisterRegistered January 18, 2010 as US 869, AL 47; nominated by Thomas KaufmannSource: nhlr.org
- 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 (opens another site) (click the spot there to list them, with dates and downloads).
Story
Researched 9 Oct 2026, fact-checked.
The Womack Hill Fire Tower is in Choctaw County, Alabama, and the Alabama Forestry Commission administers it.1 The register describes a 100-foot Aermotor MC-39 tower with a 7-by-7-foot cab, and says it was constructed in 1951.1
A local blog gives the same 1951 build year and notes that some maps call the tower the Daniels Fire Tower.2 The blog lists the register numbers as US 869 and AL 48. The register gives US 869 and AL 47 for the same tower.1,2
The register accepted the tower on January 18, 2010, on the nomination of Thomas Kaufmann.1
We found no readable source on who staffed the tower, what fires it watched, or what condition it is in today. The sources do not say whether the public can visit or climb it, so treat access as unknown and check with the Alabama Forestry Commission before going.
- Womack Hill Fire Tower, National Historic Lookout Register, http://nhlr.org/lookouts/us/al/womack-hill-fire-tower/ (accessed 2026-10-09). ↩
- Womack Hill Tower (Daniels Fire Tower), Jackson's Ramblings, https://jacksonsramblings.com/womack-hill-tower-daniels-fire-tower/ (accessed 2026-10-09). ↩
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Sources
- National Historic Lookout Register (NHLR) (opens another site) 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
- FOREST LOOKOUTS -- eastern US (easternuslookouts.weebly.com) (opens another site) 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
- Firefinder research Gave us: summary, design, height, agency, 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
More about this lookout elsewhere
- NHLR register entry US 869 (nhlr.org) (opens another site)
- Womack Hill Tower (Daniels Fire Tower) (Jackson's Ramblings) (opens another site)
- Womack Hill (easternuslookouts.weebly.com) (opens another site)
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