Fire lookout · Clarke County, Mississippi
Energy Lookout Tower
Clarke County, MS: 100 ft Aermotor MC-39 tower registered on NHLR in 2022 and reported in good condition in July 2022; no build 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 tower100 ft Aermotor MC-39 towerThe design: Aermotor MC-39
- Built of
- SteelGoing by its design; no source says so in words.
- Built
- Unknown
- Height
- 100 ft (30.5 m)
- Elevation
- 526 ft (160 m)
- Agency
- Mississippi Forestry Commission (administers, per NHLR)
- Land
- Unknown
- Location
- Clarke County, Mississippi
- Coordinates
- 32.13697, −88.55676
- Registers
- This entry
- VerifiedResearched, then checked independently. Updated 9 Oct 2026.
- Firefinder id
us-ms-energy
View from the cab
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History
Then and now
- 2022 Condition assessmentRegister reports the tower in good condition as of July 2, 2022Source: nhlr.org
- 2022 Added to the National Historic Lookout RegisterRegistered July 4, 2022 as US 1626, MS 16Source: 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 Energy Lookout Tower stands in Clarke County, Mississippi, at about 526 feet of elevation.1 The National Historic Lookout Register describes it as a 100-foot Aermotor MC-39 tower.1 The register says the Mississippi Forestry Commission administers the tower.1
The register gives no build date, lists the year as unknown, and says nothing about who built the tower or who staffed it.1 I found no other record of either. The register does not mention any fire the tower was used to watch.1
The tower was registered on July 4, 2022.1 The register's only condition note says the tower was in good condition as of July 2, 2022.1 No later report on its condition was found, so its state today is not confirmed.
The register does not describe public access, so any visiting rules or present use are unknown.1 This is a thin record built on one source.1 It is best read as a registered structure with an undocumented history.
- Energy Lookout Tower, National Historic Lookout Register, http://nhlr.org/lookouts/us/ms/energy-lookout-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, 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 1626 (nhlr.org) (opens another site)
- Energy (easternuslookouts.weebly.com) (opens another site)
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