Fire lookout · Leflore County, Mississippi
Leflore Lookout Tower
120 ft Aermotor LS-40 tower in Leflore County, MS, listed by NHLR in July 2023; 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 tower120 ft Aermotor LS-40 towerThe design: Aermotor LS-40
- Built of
- SteelGoing by its design; no source says so in words.
- Built
- Unknown
- Height
- 120 ft (36.6 m)
- Elevation
- 136 ft (42 m)
- Agency
- Mississippi Forestry Commission
- Land
- Unknown
- Location
- Leflore County, Mississippi
- Coordinates
- 33.52658, −90.26341
- Registers
- This entry
- VerifiedResearched, then checked independently. Updated 9 Oct 2026.
- Firefinder id
us-ms-leflore
View from the cab
What you see from the cab: every ridge out to about 93 miles, the named peaks in sight, and other fire lookouts within view, worked out from terrain data in your browser.
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Or see what it could see on the map: the ground in its line of sight.
History
Then and now
- 2023 Condition assessmentRegister records a site visit noted as 7/2/23Source: nhlr.org
- 2023 Added to the National Historic Lookout RegisterRegistered on the National Historic Lookout Register July 9, 2023 as US 1737, MS 54; 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 Leflore Lookout Tower is in Leflore County, Mississippi, in the Mississippi Delta.1 The National Historic Lookout Register describes it as a 120-foot Aermotor LS-40 on flat Delta land, and gives the site's elevation as 136 feet, or 41 meters.1
Aermotor built its towers from galvanized steel, and the LS-40 was one of the company's models.2 The register gives no build date and names no staff member or fire connected with the tower.1
The National Historic Lookout Register recorded the tower on July 9, 2023, as US 1737, MS 54, on the nomination of Jason Johns.1 The Mississippi Forestry Commission administers the site.1
OpenStreetMap has a point at nearly the same coordinates as the register. It is labeled Fire Tower and tagged as an observation tower.1,3 The register's name, Leflore Lookout Tower, is the one we use here.1
The register's only site visit is noted as 7/2/23.1 The sources we read do not say whether the tower still stands or has been moved, burned or taken down.1,3 The register gives no access information, and the OpenStreetMap entry lists no access details either.1,3 Anyone interested should contact the Mississippi Forestry Commission before visiting.1
- Leflore Lookout Tower, National Historic Lookout Register, http://nhlr.org/lookouts/us/ms/leflore-lookout-tower/ (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). ↩
- Node: Fire Tower (3014256280), OpenStreetMap, https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/3014256280 (accessed 2026-10-09). ↩
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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, photos, links National Historic Lookout Register (nhlr.org) · All rights reserved (American Resources, Inc.); facts extracted only, no prose copied. · retrieved 4 Oct 2026
- OpenStreetMap -- fire lookout structures (opens another site) Gave us: type, links © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL 1.0. (c) OpenStreetMap contributors. · retrieved 4 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 1737 (nhlr.org) (opens another site)
- The Aermotor Company: From Windmills to Forest Lookout Towers (Society for Industrial Archeology) (opens another site)
- OpenStreetMap node 3014256280 (opens another site)
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