Fire lookout · Calhoun County, Mississippi
Sandy Mountain Lookout Tower
100 ft Aermotor tower in Calhoun County, MS, registered by NHLR in July 2022 with one site visit noted (2/5/22); no build date, history or current condition 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 tower with a diagonal staircaseThe design: Aermotor
- Built of
- SteelGoing by its design; no source says so in words.
- Built
- Unknown
- Height
- 100 ft (30.5 m)
- Elevation
- 422 ft (129 m)
- Agency
- Mississippi Forestry Commission
- Land
- Unknown
- Location
- Calhoun County, Mississippi
- Coordinates
- 33.74596, −89.39234
- Registers
- This entry
- VerifiedResearched, then checked independently. Updated 9 Oct 2026.
- Firefinder id
us-ms-sandy-mountain
View from the cab
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History
Then and now
- 2022 Condition assessmentRegister records one site visit, dated 2/5/22Source: nhlr.org
- 2022 Added to the National Historic Lookout RegisterRegistered on the National Historic Lookout Register July 21, 2022 as US 1687, MS 47; 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 Sandy Mountain Lookout Tower is in Calhoun County, Mississippi.1 The National Historic Lookout Register gives its elevation as 422 feet (129 meters).1 It lists a 100-foot Aermotor with stairs set on a diagonal.1
The register lists the build date as unknown and names no builder.1 It does not say which fires the tower watched, or who staffed it.1
The register recorded the tower on July 21, 2022, as US 1687, MS 47, on the nomination of Jason Johns.1 The Mississippi Forestry Commission administers the site.1 The only site visit the register records is dated 2/5/22.1
The sources we read do not say whether the tower still stands, or whether it has been moved, burned or taken down.1 The register gives no access information, so it does not show whether the public may visit.1 The Mississippi Forestry Commission, which administers the site, would be the agency to ask.1
- Sandy Mountain Lookout Tower, National Historic Lookout Register, http://nhlr.org/lookouts/us/ms/sandy-mountain-lookout-tower/ (accessed 2026-10-09). ↩
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Sources
- National Historic Lookout Register (NHLR) (opens another site) Gave us: name, location, county, elevation, type, 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
- 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
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