Fire lookout · Alcorn County, Mississippi
Pine Mountain
- Gone
- Access unknown
- Unverified
Unverified entry
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Gone: The lookout no longer stands. Only the site is left.
Visit & stay
Gone: site only. The lookout no longer stands, so there is nothing to climb or rent.
Access
Access unknown
We do not know the access rules. Check with the land manager before you go.
- Road to the top?
- Unknown
Facts
- Status
- Type
- Cab on a towerAermotorThe design: Aermotor
- Built of
- SteelGoing by its design; no source says so in words.
- Built
- Unknown
- Height
- 100 ft (30.5 m)
- Elevation
- Unknown
- Agency
- Unknown
- Land
- Unknown
- Location
- Alcorn County, Mississippi
- Coordinates
- 34.89480, −88.73390
- Registers
- Not on a lookout register
- This entry
- UnverifiedFrom a single source and not yet checked. Details may be wrong. Updated 8 Oct 2026.
- Firefinder id
us-ms-pine-mountain
View from the cab
What the lookout saw from its 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.
This lookout is gone. The view is reconstructed from its recorded site and its recorded height.
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History
Then and now
No dated events recorded yet: nobody has recorded when this lookout was built or when it came down.
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
Summary from our records, not yet researched.
Pine Mountain was a fire lookout tower (Aermotor design) in Alcorn County, Mississippi.
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Sources
- FOREST LOOKOUTS -- eastern US (easternuslookouts.weebly.com) (opens another site) Gave us: name, location, county, type, what it is built of, design, height, status, 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
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