Fire lookout · Tippah County, Mississippi
Dumas Lookout Tower
100 ft Aermotor with a parallel staircase in Tippah County, MS; NHLR-registered July 2022 as US 1684. Register says the MFC no longer uses the site. No build date 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. The register does not say who owns the site now or whether visitors may enter.
- Can you climb it?
- Unknown
- Road to the top?
- Unknown
- Staffing
- Unknown
Facts
- Status
- Type
- Cab on a tower100-foot Aermotor with a parallel staircase; 14 landings and 15 flights, bottom flights missing when registeredThe design: Aermotor
- Built of
- SteelGoing by its design; no source says so in words.
- Built
- Unknown
- Height
- 100 ft (30.5 m)
- Elevation
- 675 ft (206 m)
- Agency
- Mississippi Forestry Commission (the register's 'Administered by' field; the same listing says the site is no longer used by the MFC)
- Land
- Unknown
- Location
- Tippah County, Mississippi
- Coordinates
- 34.66714, −88.85903
- Registers
- This entry
- VerifiedResearched, then checked independently. Updated 9 Oct 2026.
- Firefinder id
us-ms-dumas
View from the cab
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History
Then and now
- 2022 Condition assessmentSite visit on July 17, 2022, recorded in the register: 14 landings and 15 flights, bottom flights missingSource: nhlr.org
- 2022 Added to the National Historic Lookout RegisterRegistered July 18, 2022 as US 1684, MS 45; nominated by Jason JohnsSource: nhlr.org
- TodayStandingIt still stands, as far as our sources know.
Old maps of this spot
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Story
Researched 9 Oct 2026, fact-checked.
The Dumas Lookout Tower is a 100-foot Aermotor tower in Tippah County, Mississippi, at about 675 feet, or 206 meters.1 On its parallel staircase, the register counts 14 landings and 15 flights, and says the bottom flights are gone.1
The register calls it an Aermotor.1 Aermotor also made fire lookout towers from galvanized steel.2 Wikipedia says hundreds of one 7-by-7 model were used in the southeastern United States.2 The sources we read do not say whether this tower is that model.1,2
The register gives no build date, and we found none in the sources we read.1 The register names the Mississippi Forestry Commission as administering the site, yet says the commission has stopped using it.1
The register's writer visited on July 17, 2022.1 The tower was registered as US 1684, MS 45 the next day, on the nomination of Jason Johns.1
The register does not say who owns the site today or whether visitors may enter.1 We found no account of the fires it watched or the people who staffed it.1 Anyone interested should confirm who controls the land before going there, and should not climb the tower.
- Dumas Lookout Tower, National Historic Lookout Register, http://nhlr.org/lookouts/us/ms/dumas-lookout-tower/ (accessed 2026-10-09). ↩
- Aermotor Windmill Company, Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aermotor_Windmill_Company (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
- Firefinder research Gave us: summary, design, height, status, agency, access, 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 1684 (nhlr.org) (opens another site)
- Aermotor Windmill Company (Wikipedia) (opens another site)
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