Fire lookout · Baker County, Florida
Eddy Fire Tower
Florida Forest Service 100-foot Aermotor LS-40 tower in John Bethea State Forest, Baker County; NHLR-registered 2013; 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
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- Can you climb it?
- Unknown
- Road to the top?
- Unknown
- Staffing
- Unknown
Facts
- Status
- Type
- Cab on a tower100-foot Aermotor LS-40 steel tower with 7x7-foot cabThe design: Aermotor LS-40
- Built of
- SteelGoing by its design; no source says so in words.
- Built
- Unknown
- Height
- 100 ft (30.5 m)
- Elevation
- 133 ft (41 m)
- Agency
- Florida Forest Service
- Land
- Federal land
- Location
- Baker County, Florida
- Coordinates
- 30.54306, −82.34306
- Registers
- This entry
- VerifiedResearched, then checked independently. Updated 8 Oct 2026.
- Firefinder id
us-fl-eddy
View from the cab
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History
Then and now
- 2013 Added to the National Historic Lookout RegisterRegistered August 8, 2013 as US 987, FL 4Source: 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 8 Oct 2026, fact-checked.
The Eddy Fire Tower stands on the John Bethea State Forest in Baker County, in northern Florida, and the Florida Forest Service owns it.1,2 The National Historic Lookout Register gives its model as an Aermotor LS-40, 100 feet tall, with a cab measuring 7 by 7 feet.1 Forest Lookouts calls it a steel tower.2
The tower was registered on August 8, 2013, as US 987, FL 4.1 The register gives the site elevation as 133 feet (41 meters).1
The sources read do not say when the tower was built, who staffed it, or whether it ever watched for a particular fire.1,2
The forest around it has had a hard time.3 The Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services says catastrophic wildfires have affected more than 80 percent of the property since the state acquired it.3 That statement does not mention the tower, so the sources do not say what happened to it in those fires.3
The sources do not say whether the public may visit or climb the tower today.1,2 The register describes it in the present tense, but none of the three sources gives a date for its most recent check.1,3
- Eddy Fire Tower, National Historic Lookout Register (nhlr.org), http://nhlr.org/lookouts/us/fl/eddy-fire-tower/ (accessed 2026-10-08). ↩
- Eddy, Forest Lookouts (easternuslookouts.weebly.com), https://easternuslookouts.weebly.com/eddy.html (accessed 2026-10-08). ↩
- John M. Bethea State Forest, Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, https://www.fdacs.gov/Forest-Wildfire/Our-Forests/State-Forests/John-M.-Bethea-State-Forest (accessed 2026-10-08). ↩
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Sources
- National Historic Lookout Register (NHLR) (opens another site) Gave us: name, location, county, elevation, type, status, register numbers, agency, ownership, 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: what it is built of, design, height, 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
- OpenStreetMap -- fire lookout structures (opens another site) Gave us: links © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL 1.0. (c) OpenStreetMap contributors. · retrieved 4 Oct 2026
- Firefinder research Gave us: summary, design, height, 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 987 (nhlr.org) (opens another site)
- John M. Bethea State Forest (Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services) (opens another site)
- Eddy (easternuslookouts.weebly.com) (opens another site)
- OpenStreetMap node 8618634369 (opens another site)
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