Fire lookout · Beauregard Parish, Louisiana
Gordon Fire Tower
110-ft steel Aermotor fire tower in Beauregard Parish, Louisiana, run by the state agriculture and forestry department; build date and access not found in sources reached.
- 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 tower110-ft steel Aermotor tower with a metal 7'x7' cabThe design: Aermotor
- Built of
- SteelGoing by its design; no source says so in words.
- Built
- Unknown
- Height
- 110 ft (33.5 m)
- Elevation
- 89 ft (27 m)
- Agency
- Louisiana Department of Agriculture & Forestry
- Land
- Unknown
- Location
- Beauregard Parish, Louisiana
- Coordinates
- 30.47970, −93.33640
- Registers
- This entry
- VerifiedResearched, then checked independently. Updated 8 Oct 2026.
- Firefinder id
us-la-gordon
View from the cab
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History
Then and now
- 1999 Added to the National Historic Lookout RegisterDate registered September 1, 1999Source: 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.
Gordon Fire Tower stands in Beauregard Parish in southwestern Louisiana, near DeQuincy.1,2 The National Historic Lookout Register describes it as a 110-foot steel Aermotor tower with a metal cab measuring 7 by 7 feet.1 The Louisiana Department of Agriculture and Forestry built and maintains it.1,3
The register lists the tower as registered on September 1, 1999.1 It remains in use on days of very high fire danger, according to the register.1 Wikipedia's list of Louisiana towers gives the same tower as still standing, and notes that it is used on high wind days.2 The two descriptions differ. Neither was confirmed by an agency source in this research.
The sources reached here do not say when the tower was built, who first staffed it, or whether it has been moved or changed. No source describes whether the public may visit. Anyone planning a trip should ask the Louisiana Department of Agriculture and Forestry before going, since the register says the tower is still used on the highest fire-danger days.1
- Gordon Fire Tower, National Historic Lookout Register, http://nhlr.org/lookouts/us/la/gordon-fire-tower/ (accessed 2026-10-08). ↩
- List of fire lookout towers in Louisiana, Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fire_lookout_towers_in_Louisiana (accessed 2026-10-08). ↩
- Gordon, Forest Lookouts (central US), https://centraluslookouts.weebly.com/gordon.html (accessed 2026-10-08). ↩
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Sources
- National Historic Lookout Register (NHLR) (opens another site) Gave us: name, location, 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
- Wikipedia: per-state fire lookout tower lists with coordinates (opens another site) Gave us: county, type, links Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wikipedia). Facts only (parish/county, nearest town, coordinates, status); the article's own prose/notes are not reproduced, per this project's policy. · retrieved 4 Oct 2026
- FOREST LOOKOUTS -- central US (centraluslookouts.weebly.com) (opens another site) Gave us: links centraluslookouts.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 321 (nhlr.org) (opens another site)
- NHLR register entry (nhlr.org) (opens another site)
- Gordon lookout tower (Wikipedia) (opens another site)
- Gordon (centraluslookouts.weebly.com) (opens another site)
- OpenStreetMap node 358380019 (opens another site)
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