Fire lookout · Osceola County, Florida
Deer Park Fire Tower
Aermotor LS-40 tower in Osceola County, Florida, administered by FDACS and NHLR-registered in 2016; no build date, staffing or access sources 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 LS-40 towerThe design: Aermotor LS-40
- Built of
- SteelGoing by its design; no source says so in words.
- Built
- Unknown
- Height
- Unknown
- Elevation
- 47 ft (14 m)
- Agency
- Florida Department of Agriculture & Consumer Services
- Land
- Unknown
- Location
- Osceola County, Florida
- Coordinates
- 28.09948, −80.89832
- Registers
- This entry
- VerifiedResearched, then checked independently. Updated 8 Oct 2026.
- Firefinder id
us-fl-deer-park
View from the cab
What you see from the cab: every ridge out to about 93 miles, the named peaks in sight, and other fire lookouts within view, worked out from terrain data in your browser.
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History
Then and now
- 2016 Added to the National Historic Lookout RegisterRegistered July 24, 2016 as US 1137, FL 20; nominated by Robert Spear.Source: 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 Deer Park Fire Tower stands in Deer Park, an unincorporated community in Osceola County, Florida.1,2 The community sits off US 192, south of County Road 419.1 Its roots are in timber: George Washington Hopkins, from Michigan, started buying land in eastern Osceola and Brevard counties in 1895, and the community was set up to house workers at a logging and mill operation.3
The National Historic Lookout Register describes the tower as an Aermotor LS-40 and says the Florida Department of Agriculture & Consumer Services administers it.2 The register gives its elevation as 47 feet (14 m).2 The tower was registered on July 24, 2016 as US 1137, FL 20, with Robert Spear as nominator.2
I could not find a build year, height, staffing history or fire record for this tower in the sources I read. The Eastern lookouts page lists only its name and county.4 A Wikimedia Commons photo of the state's Deer Park Forestry Site is licensed for reuse, but its description does not confirm that the tower appears in it.5
No public access information turned up, so check with the state, which administers the tower, before you visit.2
- Deer Park, Florida, Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deer_Park,_Florida (accessed 2026-10-09). ↩
- Deer Park Fire Tower, National Historic Lookout Register, http://nhlr.org/lookouts/us/fl/deer-park-fire-tower/ (accessed 2026-10-09). ↩
- Deer Park Historical Marker, Historical Marker Database, https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=221629 (accessed 2026-10-09). ↩
- Deer Park, Forest Lookouts, https://easternuslookouts.weebly.com/deer-park.html (accessed 2026-10-09). ↩
- File:Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services Deer Park Forestry Site P001.jpg, Wikimedia Commons, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Florida_Department_of_Agriculture_and_Consumer_Services_Deer_Park_Forestry_Site_P001.jpg (accessed 2026-10-09). ↩
Photos
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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, 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, agency, dates, photos, 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 1137 (nhlr.org) (opens another site)
- NHLR register entry (nhlr.org) (opens another site)
- Deer Park, Florida (Wikipedia) (opens another site)
- Deer Park Historical Marker (Historical Marker Database) (opens another site)
- File:Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services Deer Park Forestry Site P001.jpg (Wikimedia Commons) (opens another site)
- Deer Park (easternuslookouts.weebly.com) (opens another site)
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