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Fire lookout · Kemper County, Mississippi

Flintkote (II) Lookout Tower

80 ft Aermotor in Kemper County, MS; NHLR-registered July 2022 as US 1668. Register says the site is now owned by a timber company, not the MFC. No build date found.

Private land

No public access. Please do not trespass; view it only from public land. Register says the site is now owned by a timber company; no public access is described.

Visit & stay

Not rentable. As far as we know, this lookout cannot be booked for overnight stays.

Access

Private land. See the warning at the top of this page.

Can you climb it?
Unknown
Road to the top?
Unknown
Staffing
Unknown

Facts

Status
Standing
Type
Cab on a tower80-foot Aermotor with a diagonal staircaseThe design: Aermotor
Built of
SteelGoing by its design; no source says so in words.
Built
Unknown
Height
80 ft (24.4 m)
Elevation
579 ft (177 m)
Agency
Timber company, the current owner per the NHLR description; the register's 'Administered by' field still lists the Mississippi Forestry Commission
Land
Unknown
Location
Kemper County, Mississippi
Coordinates
32.68562, −88.51018
This entry
VerifiedResearched, then checked independently. Updated 9 Oct 2026.
Firefinder id
us-ms-flintkote-ii

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History

Then and now

  1. 2022 Condition assessmentSite visit on July 3, 2022, recorded in the register; the same listing says the site is now owned by a timber companySource: nhlr.org
  2. 2022 Added to the National Historic Lookout RegisterRegistered July 10, 2022 as US 1668, MS 32; nominated by Jason JohnsSource: nhlr.org
  3. 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 Flintkote (II) Lookout Tower is an 80-foot Aermotor tower in Kemper County, Mississippi, at about 579 feet, or 176 meters.1 The register describes a diagonal staircase and gives no build date.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, but nothing we read says this tower is that model.2,1

The register's "Administered by" line names the Mississippi Forestry Commission.1 The description, though, says a timber company owns the site now.1 The two do not agree, and the register does not say when ownership changed.1 The commission was created in 1926 and is authorized to prevent, control and extinguish forest fires.3

The register listed the tower as US 1668, MS 32 on July 10, 2022, nominated by Jason Johns.1 The site visit it describes took place on July 3, 2022, and we found no later report.1

We found no record of who staffed the tower, which fires it watched, or whether visitors may go there.1 The register says a timber company owns the land, so anyone interested should ask the owner before going on the site and should not climb the tower.1

  1. Flintkote (II) Lookout Tower, National Historic Lookout Register, http://nhlr.org/lookouts/us/ms/flintkote-ii-lookout-tower/ (accessed 2026-10-09). ↩
  2. Aermotor Windmill Company, Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aermotor_Windmill_Company (accessed 2026-10-09). ↩
  3. Mississippi Forestry Commission, Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mississippi_Forestry_Commission (accessed 2026-10-09). ↩

Photos

Photo of Flintkote (II) Lookout Tower
Photo: National Historic Lookout Register (nhlr.org) · All rights reserved · source
Photo of Flintkote (II) Lookout Tower
Photo: National Historic Lookout Register (nhlr.org) · All rights reserved · source
Photo of Flintkote (II) Lookout Tower
Photo: National Historic Lookout Register (nhlr.org) · All rights reserved · source

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Sources

  1. National Historic Lookout Register (NHLR) 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
  2. 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

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