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Fire lookout · Saint Louis County, Minnesota

Floodwood Lookout Tower

Village tower at Floodwood, Saint Louis County; a Minnesota lookout list dates its 100-foot Aermotor to 1940, and it is still listed as standing.

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
Standing
Type
Cab on a tower100-foot Aermotor towerThe design: Aermotor
Built of
Not recorded
Built
1940
Height
100 ft (30.5 m)
Elevation
Unknown
Agency
Unknown
Land
Unknown
Location
Saint Louis County, Minnesota
Coordinates
46.92883, −92.91956
Registers
Not on a lookout register
This entry
VerifiedResearched, then checked independently. Updated 9 Oct 2026.
Firefinder id
us-mn-floodwood

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History

Then and now

  1. 1940 BuiltA 100-foot Aermotor tower erected, per the Central US Lookouts Minnesota list. No builder named.Source: centraluslookouts.weebly.com
  2. 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 (click the spot there to list them, with dates and downloads).

Story

Researched 9 Oct 2026, fact-checked.

The Floodwood Lookout Tower is in the village of Floodwood, Saint Louis County, Minnesota.1,2 A Minnesota lookout list gives 1940 as the year a 100-foot Aermotor tower was erected there.2 That is the only build date we found. We could not find who built the tower, who owned it, or who staffed it.

We found no account of any fire the tower watched, and no record of how it was used after it went up.

The Forest Fire Lookout Association lists the tower as standing.3 The most recent image we found is a photograph on Wikimedia Commons dated August 2011.1 We found no inspection report or access notice, so its condition today is unclear. Ask whoever looks after the site before going near it, and do not climb it.

  1. Floodwood Lookout Tower, Wikimedia Commons, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Floodwood_Lookout_Tower.jpg (accessed 2026-10-09). ↩
  2. Minnesota Lookouts, Central US Lookouts, https://centraluslookouts.weebly.com/minnesota.html (accessed 2026-10-09). ↩
  3. Minnesota Lookouts (Standing), Forest Fire Lookout Association, https://firelookout.org/lookouts/us/mn/mn-st/ (accessed 2026-10-09). ↩

Photos

Photo of Floodwood Lookout Tower
Photo: Tlkremer, via Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0 · source

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Sources

  1. Forest Fire Lookout Association (FFLA) - US lookout lists Gave us: name, location, county, type, status, links Forest Fire Lookout Association (firelookout.org) · No licence stated; facts extracted only, no prose copied. · retrieved 8 Oct 2026
  2. Wikidata -- US fire lookout towers (Q748998 and subclasses) Gave us: photos, links Wikidata · CC0 1.0 (Wikidata). Images keep their own Commons licence/credit. · retrieved 4 Oct 2026
  3. Firefinder research Gave us: summary, design, height, 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

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