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Fire lookout · Pontotoc County, Mississippi

Troy Lookout Site

Mississippi Forestry Commission Aeromotor lookout tower of the 1930s in Pontotoc County; the register says it once stood in a pasture and gives no removal record.

Gone: The lookout no longer stands. Only the site is left. Register says the tower once stood in the pasture; no removal date or cause given

Visit & stay

Gone: site only. The lookout no longer stands, so there is nothing to climb or rent.

Access

Access unknown

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Road to the top?
Unknown

Facts

Status
Gone
Type
Cab on a towerStandard Aeromotor tower, 100-150 ft (per FFLOS)The design: Aermotor
Built of
SteelGoing by its design; no source says so in words.
Built
Unknown
Height
Unknown
Elevation
577 ft (176 m)
Agency
Mississippi Forestry Commission
Land
Unknown
Location
Pontotoc County, Mississippi
Coordinates
34.13101, −88.95691
This entry
VerifiedResearched, then checked independently. Updated 9 Oct 2026.
Firefinder id
us-ms-troy

View from the cab

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History

Then and now

  1. 2010 Added to the Former Fire Lookout Sites RegisterRegistered on the Former Fire Lookout Sites register October 19, 2010, nominated by Danny WhiteSource: firetower.org
  2. TodayGoneThe lookout no longer stands. Only the site is left. When it came down is not recorded.

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 (click the spot there to list them, with dates and downloads).

Story

Researched 10 Oct 2026, fact-checked.

The Mississippi Forestry Commission put up a standard Aeromotor tower, 100 to 150 feet tall, in Pontotoc County, Mississippi, in the 1930s.1 It stood in the middle of a pasture, half a mile north of where Goodfood Road meets Toxish Road.1

Looking north from the site, the Pontotoc skyline could be seen 8.08 miles away at ground level, and at night the town's street lights and radio towers were visible.1 The register lists it as US 694, MS 1 and records its listing on October 19, 2010, nominated by Danny White.1

The register describes the tower in the past tense, so it appears to be gone.1 It does not say what, if anything, remains in the pasture today or whether the land is open to visitors.

  1. Troy Lookout Site, Former Fire Lookout Sites Register, http://firetower.org/lookouts/us/ms/troy-lookout-site/ (accessed 2026-10-10). ↩

Sources

  1. Former Fire Lookout Sites Register (FFLOS) Gave us: name, location, county, elevation, type, what it is built of, status, register numbers, agency, dates, links Former Fire Lookout Sites Register (firetower.org) · All rights reserved (American Resources, Inc.); facts extracted only, no prose copied. · retrieved 4 Oct 2026
  2. Firefinder research Gave us: summary, design, status, 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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