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Fire lookout · Noxubee County, Mississippi

Noxubee Lookout Tower

Noxubee County, MS 100 ft MC-39 Aermotor on a former MFC county work center site; now privately owned; NHLR-registered July 2022 as US 1630; no build date or fire history found.

Private land

No public access. Please do not trespass; view it only from public land. Register says the site is now privately owned; no public access described in sources read

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 towerMC-39 Aermotor tower, 100 ft; site was a county work center for the MFCThe 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
249 ft (76 m)
Agency
Privately owned; former Mississippi Forestry Commission county work center (MFC cooperator)
Land
Unknown
Location
Noxubee County, Mississippi
Coordinates
33.09961, −88.65821
This entry
VerifiedResearched, then checked independently. Updated 9 Oct 2026.
Firefinder id
us-ms-noxubee

View from the cab

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History

Then and now

  1. 2022 Added to the National Historic Lookout RegisterRegistered July 4, 2022 as US 1630, MS 18; nominated by Jason JohnsSource: nhlr.org
  2. TodayStandingIt still stands, as far as our sources know.

Old maps of this spot

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Story

Researched 9 Oct 2026, fact-checked.

The Noxubee Lookout Tower stands in Noxubee County, Mississippi, on a site that was once a county work center for the Mississippi Forestry Commission (MFC).1 The register describes an MC-39 Aermotor tower that is 100 feet tall.1 The MC-39 was one of several Aermotor lookout models sold at a range of set heights.2

The register gives no build date and lists it as unknown.1 It puts the elevation at 249 feet, or 76 meters, while OpenStreetMap gives 74 meters. We have not settled that small gap.1,3 OpenStreetMap maps the structure as a lattice observation tower too.3 A lookout history site lists a Noxubee entry under Noxubee County, and the part we read gives no further detail.4 We found no record of staff or of any fire connected with this tower.

The register was filed on July 4, 2022, on the nomination of Jason Johns.1 It lists the MFC as a cooperator and says the site is now privately owned.1 It does not say when the work center closed or when the land changed hands.

Today the tower sits on private land.1 We found no information about public access, so ask the owner before any visit. Please do not climb it.

  1. Noxubee Lookout Tower, National Historic Lookout Register, http://nhlr.org/lookouts/us/ms/noxubee-lookout-tower/ (accessed 2026-10-09). ↩
  2. 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). ↩
  3. Noxubee Lookout Tower, OpenStreetMap node 357997189, https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/357997189 (accessed 2026-10-09). ↩
  4. Mississippi, Forest Lookouts, https://easternuslookouts.weebly.com/mississippi.html (accessed 2026-10-09). ↩

Photos

Photo of Noxubee Lookout Tower
Photo: National Historic Lookout Register (nhlr.org) · All rights reserved · source
Photo of Noxubee 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, 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. OpenStreetMap -- fire lookout structures Gave us: type, links © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL 1.0. (c) OpenStreetMap contributors. · retrieved 4 Oct 2026
  3. 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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