Fire lookout · Hamilton County, Florida
Bullock Fire Tower
Hamilton County tower, a 100 ft Aermotor MC-39 with a standard cab; the register lists the site as abandoned while the tower stays intact. Build date 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 MC-39, 100 ft, standard cabThe design: Aermotor MC-39
- Built of
- SteelGoing by its design; no source says so in words.
- Built
- Unknown
- Height
- 100 ft (30.5 m)
- Elevation
- 129 ft (39 m)
- Agency
- Florida Department of Agriculture & Consumer Services
- Land
- Unknown
- Location
- Hamilton County, Florida
- Coordinates
- 30.35416, −82.77934
- Registers
- This entry
- VerifiedResearched, then checked independently. Updated 8 Oct 2026.
- Firefinder id
us-fl-bullock
View from the cab
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History
Then and now
- 2016 Added to the National Historic Lookout RegisterRegistered July 24, 2016 as US 1086, FL 16; nominated by Robert SpearSource: 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 Bullock Fire Tower stands in Hamilton County, Florida.1,2 Its National Historic Lookout Register entry describes a 100-foot Aermotor MC-39 tower with a standard cab.1 The sources reviewed do not say when the tower was built, who put it up, or why it was placed on that site, and no construction record turned up in the searches made for this story.1
The register lists the tower on July 24, 2016, as US 1086, FL 16, with Robert Spear as nominator.1 It gives the site's elevation as 129 feet.1 Nothing reviewed describes the tower's staffing or any fire it was used to watch.1
The register also describes the tower's condition: the site has been abandoned, but the structure is still sound and in good condition.1 The Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services administers the tower, according to the register.1 No public access, visiting or climbing rules were found in the sources reviewed.1 Anyone interested should check with that agency before going to the site, and should not climb the tower without its permission.1
- Bullock Fire Tower, National Historic Lookout Register, http://nhlr.org/lookouts/us/fl/bullock-fire-tower/ (accessed 2026-10-09). ↩
- Bullock - Forest Lookouts, Eastern U.S. Lookouts, https://easternuslookouts.weebly.com/bullock.html (accessed 2026-10-09). ↩
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Sources
- National Historic Lookout Register (NHLR) (opens another site) Gave us: name, location, county, elevation, type, 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: 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 1086 (nhlr.org) (opens another site)
- NHLR register entry (nhlr.org) (opens another site)
- Bullock (easternuslookouts.weebly.com) (opens another site)
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