Fire lookout · Lafayette County, Florida
Midway Fire Tower
120-foot Aermotor LS-40 fire tower in Lafayette County, Florida; NHLR-registered 2016; observer house rehabbed in 2016. No build date or staffing history 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 tower120-foot Aermotor LS-40 tower with a standard cab and 18 landingsThe design: Aermotor LS-40
- Built of
- SteelGoing by its design; no source says so in words.
- Built
- Unknown
- Height
- 120 ft (36.6 m)
- Elevation
- 64 ft (20 m)
- Agency
- Florida Department of Agriculture & Consumer Services
- Land
- Unknown
- Location
- Lafayette County, Florida
- Coordinates
- 29.99879, −83.05723
- Registers
- This entry
- VerifiedResearched, then checked independently. Updated 8 Oct 2026.
- Firefinder id
us-fl-midway
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 1063, FL 10; nominated by Robert SpearSource: nhlr.org
- 2016 RestoredObserver house rehabbed by district personnelSource: 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 Midway Fire Tower stands in Lafayette County, Florida.1 The National Historic Lookout Register's entry gives the structure as a 120-foot Aermotor LS-40, fitted with a standard cab and 18 landings, and puts its elevation at 64 feet.1 The sources I read do not give a build date or any early history.
The only later work the Register mentions is a 2016 refurbishment of the observer house, carried out by district personnel.1 Nothing I read describes who staffed the tower, what fires it watched, or whether it has ever been moved or closed.
The Register records the tower's registration on July 24, 2016, as US 1063, FL 10, with Robert Spear as nominator.1 It lists the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services as the administering agency.1
Its visiting status is also unknown from these sources. The Register does not mention public access or climbing rules, so check with the Florida Forest Service before planning a visit, and do not climb the tower without permission.
- Midway Fire Tower, National Historic Lookout Register (nhlr.org), http://nhlr.org/lookouts/us/fl/midway-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, 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 1063 (nhlr.org) (opens another site)
- NHLR register entry (nhlr.org) (opens another site)
- Midway (easternuslookouts.weebly.com) (opens another site)
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