Fire lookout · Tunica County, Mississippi
Tunica Lookout Tower
Tunica County, MS Forestry Commission site: a 100 ft Aermotor tower with a 7x7 cab and steel stair treads, NHLR-registered June 2022 as US 1602; build date and history unknown.
- Standing
- Access unknown
- Verified
Visit & stay
Not rentable. As far as we know, this lookout cannot be booked for overnight stays.
Access
Access unknown
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- Can you climb it?
- Unknown
- Road to the top?
- Unknown
- Staffing
- Unknown
Facts
- Status
- Type
- Cab on a tower100ft tall tower with a 7' x 7' cab manufactured by Aermotor; steel stair treadsThe design: Aermotor
- Built of
- SteelGoing by its design; no source says so in words.
- Built
- Unknown
- Height
- 100 ft (30.5 m)
- Elevation
- 188 ft (57 m)
- Agency
- Mississippi Forestry Commission (cooperator)
- Land
- Unknown
- Location
- Tunica County, Mississippi
- Coordinates
- 34.64166, −90.38027
- Registers
- This entry
- VerifiedResearched, then checked independently. Updated 9 Oct 2026.
- Firefinder id
us-ms-tunica
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History
Then and now
- 2022 Added to the National Historic Lookout RegisterRegistered June 18, 2022 as US 1602, MS 7; nominated by Jason JohnsSource: nhlr.org
- 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 Tunica Lookout Tower stands in Tunica County, Mississippi, at about 188 feet (57 meters) above sea level.1 The National Historic Lookout Register describes it as a 100-foot tower with a 7-by-7-foot cab, made by Aermotor.1 The Register says it is a Mississippi Forestry Commission site and lists the Commission as a cooperator.1
The Register also notes that the stairs have steel treads rather than the wooden ones it calls typical.1 The Register does not say when the tower was built, and it lists the build date as unknown.1 We found no record of who built it, who staffed it, or any fire it watched.
The Register added the tower on June 18, 2022, as US 1602 (MS 7), on the nomination of Jason Johns.1
The Register describes the tower in the present tense, but it gives no visit date and we found no later report about its condition.1 We also found no record of a sale, a move, or a decommissioning. The Register does not describe public access.1 Anyone interested should ask the Forestry Commission before going to the site, and should not climb a tower without permission.
- Tunica Lookout Tower, National Historic Lookout Register, http://nhlr.org/lookouts/us/ms/tunica-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, 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, 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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