Fire lookout · Grant County, Arkansas
Ico Lookout Tower
Also known as Cane Creek
Aermotor-type steel lookout in Grant County, AR (also listed as Cane Creek), NHLR-registered April 2023. Build date, staffing and access not found.
- 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 towerAermotor tower (per NHLR visitor description)The design: Aermotor
- Built of
- SteelGoing by its design; no source says so in words.
- Built
- Unknown
- Height
- Unknown
- Elevation
- 400 ft (122 m)
- Agency
- Arkansas Forestry Commission
- Land
- Unknown
- Location
- Grant County, Arkansas
- Coordinates
- 34.48376, −92.35138
- Registers
- This entry
- VerifiedResearched, then checked independently. Updated 8 Oct 2026.
- Firefinder id
us-ar-ico
View from the cab
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History
Then and now
- 2023 Added to the National Historic Lookout RegisterRegistered April 11, 2023 as US 1729, AR 21Source: nhlr.org
- TodayStandingIt still stands, as far as our sources know.
Old maps of this spot
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Story
Researched 9 Oct 2026, fact-checked.
The National Historic Lookout Register calls this site the Ico Lookout Tower, and it added the tower to the Register on April 11, 2023.1 Central US Lookouts files a Grant County site under the name Cane Creek.2 I have treated the two names as one tower, though neither page says so outright.
No construction date is on record. The Register lists the build year as unknown.1 Its visitor calls the tower an Aermotor design and says it may stand on private property.1 The Encyclopedia of Arkansas notes that the most popular lookout type outside the West was built by the Aeromotor Company. These were steel towers with four legs.3
The Register says the Arkansas Forestry Commission administers the tower.1 The Commission was established by Act 234 in 1931.3
The sources I read do not say who watched the tower or what fires it spotted.
The Register's description is in the present tense and records a site visit dated 1/22/22, so the tower appeared to be standing then. I found no later check.1 The Register gives the site's elevation as 400 ft (122 m).1 Because the land may be private, confirm access with the Commission or the landowner before going, and do not climb it.
- Ico Lookout Tower, National Historic Lookout Register, http://nhlr.org/lookouts/us/ar/ico-lookout-tower/ (accessed 2026-10-09). ↩
- Cane Creek - Forest Lookouts, Central US Lookouts, https://centraluslookouts.weebly.com/cane-creek.html (accessed 2026-10-09). ↩
- Forest Fire Lookouts, Encyclopedia of Arkansas, https://encyclopediaofarkansas.net/entries/forest-fire-lookouts-7905/ (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 -- central US (centraluslookouts.weebly.com) (opens another site) Gave us: type, links centraluslookouts.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, status, 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 1729 (nhlr.org) (opens another site)
- Forest Fire Lookouts (Encyclopedia of Arkansas) (opens another site)
- Cane Creek (centraluslookouts.weebly.com) (opens another site)
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