Fire lookout · Yazoo County, Mississippi
Midway Lookout Tower
Yazoo County, MS 100-ft Aermotor LS-40 registered in 2023 and administered by the Mississippi Forestry Commission; build date and later history not 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 LS-40 per the register; OpenStreetMap tags it a lattice observation towerThe design: Aermotor LS-40
- Built of
- SteelGoing by its design; no source says so in words.
- Built
- Unknown
- Height
- Unknown
- Elevation
- 398 ft (121 m)
- Agency
- Mississippi Forestry Commission
- Land
- Unknown
- Location
- Yazoo County, Mississippi
- Coordinates
- 32.86532, −90.14015
- Registers
- This entry
- VerifiedResearched, then checked independently. Updated 9 Oct 2026.
- Firefinder id
us-ms-midway
View from the cab
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History
Then and now
- 2023 Condition assessmentRegister site visit dated July 2, 2023Source: nhlr.org
- 2023 Added to the National Historic Lookout RegisterRegistered July 9, 2023 as US 1741, MS 58; 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 Midway Lookout Tower stands in Yazoo County, Mississippi, according to the National Historic Lookout Register.1 The register gives the registration number US 1741, MS 58, and says the Mississippi Forestry Commission administers the tower.1 It was registered on July 9, 2023, with Jason Johns as the nominator.1
Wikipedia lists the community of Midway, in Yazoo County, as unincorporated. It places the community on Mississippi Highway 433, roughly 12.6 miles east-northeast of Yazoo City.2 The sources I read do not say how the tower relates to that community beyond the shared name.
The register describes the tower as a 100-foot Aermotor LS-40 and gives its elevation as 398 feet (121 m).1 OpenStreetMap lists the tower as a lattice observation tower but gives its elevation as 110 metres.3 The two sources disagree on elevation, and this story uses the register's figure.
The register lists the build date as unknown.1 I found no other account of when the tower went up, who put it there, or whether it has been moved, and nothing about its fires or staffing.
The register notes a site visit on July 2, 2023.1 I could not tell whether the public can reach the tower, and I found no later report of its condition. Please check with the Mississippi Forestry Commission before planning a trip, and do not climb the tower without permission.
- Midway Lookout Tower, National Historic Lookout Register (nhlr.org), http://nhlr.org/lookouts/us/ms/midway-lookout-tower/ (accessed 2026-10-09). ↩
- Midway, Yazoo County, Mississippi, Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midway,_Yazoo_County,_Mississippi (accessed 2026-10-09). ↩
- Midway Lookout Tower, OpenStreetMap, https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/357997179 (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, 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 1741 (nhlr.org) (opens another site)
- Midway, Yazoo County, Mississippi (Wikipedia) (opens another site)
- OpenStreetMap node 357997179 (opens another site)
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