Fire lookout · McDuffie County, Georgia
McDuffie Lookout
Standing tower beside a Georgia Forestry Commission office in McDuffie County, Georgia; NHLR-registered 2015. Build date, staffing, fires and access not found in sources.
- 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 tower82-foot Aermotor LS-40 galvanized tower with 7 by 7 by 10 foot steel cab (register says it appears to be)The design: Aermotor LS-40
- Built of
- Steel
- Built
- Unknown
- Height
- 82 ft (25.0 m)
- Elevation
- 519 ft (158 m)
- Agency
- Georgia Forestry Commission
- Land
- Unknown
- Location
- McDuffie County, Georgia
- Coordinates
- 33.44535, −82.54237
- Registers
- NHLR US 1069 · GA 18
- BLL US 50817
- GFC US 24
- This entry
- VerifiedResearched, then checked independently. Updated 8 Oct 2026.
- Firefinder id
us-ga-mcduffie
View from the cab
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History
Then and now
- 2015 Added to the National Historic Lookout RegisterRegistered June 9, 2015 as US 1069, GA 18; nominated by Michael T. Finch, Jr.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.
McDuffie Lookout stands in McDuffie County, Georgia, and the Georgia Forestry Commission administers it.1 The register describes it as an 82-foot Aermotor LS-40 galvanized tower with a steel cab, though it hedges, saying the tower appears to be that model.1
The register gives no build year.1 I found no source saying when the tower went up or who first used it.
The register notes two radio antennas and suggests the tower may serve as a repeater station.1 It also places the tower beside an active Georgia Forestry Commission office.1
The register lists the elevation at 519 feet (158 meters), while a Georgia towers list gives 512 feet.1,2 The register accepted the lookout on June 9, 2015, as US 1069, GA 18, on a nomination by Michael T. Finch, Jr.1
Neither source says who staffed the tower, which fires it watched, or whether the public can visit it. Because it stands beside a working office, do not assume you can go up it. Ask the Georgia Forestry Commission first.
- McDuffie Lookout, National Historic Lookout Register (nhlr.org), http://nhlr.org/lookouts/us/ga/mcduffie-lookout/ (accessed 2026-10-09). ↩
- Georgia lookout towers, tnlandforms.us, https://tnlandforms.us/gatowers.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
- tnlandforms.us fire lookout towers (Tom Dunigan) -- GA, NC, TN (opens another site) Gave us: register numbers, links tnlandforms.us (Tom Dunigan) · No licence stated; facts only (coordinates, county, elevation, NGS/GFC/BLL register cross-references, status where given). · 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 1069 (nhlr.org) (opens another site)
- mcduffie (tnlandforms.us (Tom Dunigan)) (opens another site)
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