Fire lookout · Itawamba County, Mississippi
Hopewell Lookout Tower
100 ft Aermotor tower in Itawamba County, MS, listed by NHLR in June 2022; current condition not confirmed; no build date, staffing or fire 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 towerThe design: Aermotor
- Built of
- SteelGoing by its design; no source says so in words.
- Built
- Unknown
- Height
- 100 ft (30.5 m)
- Elevation
- 601 ft (183 m)
- Agency
- Mississippi Forestry Commission
- Land
- Unknown
- Location
- Itawamba County, Mississippi
- Coordinates
- 34.15802, −88.24974
- Registers
- This entry
- VerifiedResearched, then checked independently. Updated 9 Oct 2026.
- Firefinder id
us-ms-hopewell
View from the cab
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History
Then and now
- 2022 Added to the National Historic Lookout RegisterRegistered on the National Historic Lookout Register June 26, 2022 as US 1621, MS 14; nominated by Jason JohnsSource: 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 Hopewell Lookout Tower is in Itawamba County, Mississippi, on a site administered by the Mississippi Forestry Commission.1,2 The National Historic Lookout Register describes it as a 100-foot Aermotor tower, and Aermotor built its towers from galvanized steel.1,3 The register gives the site's elevation as 601 feet, or 183 meters.1
The register gives no build date and does not say who designed or erected the tower.1 It also names no one who staffed the tower and no fire it watched.1
The National Historic Lookout Register listed the tower on June 26, 2022, as US 1621, MS 14, on the nomination of Jason Johns.1 The Forest Lookouts index also places a Hopewell tower in Itawamba County, Mississippi.2
The sources we read do not say whether the tower still stands, or whether it has been moved, burned or taken down.1,2 The register's description also says the base could not be reached because of muddy conditions, and it gives no date for that.1 No access information is given, so anyone planning to see the tower should first ask the Mississippi Forestry Commission about the site.1
- Hopewell Lookout Tower, National Historic Lookout Register, http://nhlr.org/lookouts/us/ms/hopewell-lookout-tower/ (accessed 2026-10-09). ↩
- Hopewell, Forest Lookouts, https://easternuslookouts.weebly.com/hopewell1.html (accessed 2026-10-09). ↩
- The Aermotor Company: From Windmills to Forest Lookout Towers, Society for Industrial Archeology, https://www.sia-web.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/Vol48_No4_Fall_2019_Web1.pdf (accessed 2026-10-09). ↩
Sources
- National Historic Lookout Register (NHLR) (opens another site) Gave us: name, location, county, elevation, what it is built of, status, register numbers, agency, dates, 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: type, 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, 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 1621 (nhlr.org) (opens another site)
- The Aermotor Company: From Windmills to Forest Lookout Towers (Society for Industrial Archeology) (opens another site)
- Hopewell (easternuslookouts.weebly.com) (opens another site)
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