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Winborn Lookout Tower

100 ft Aermotor lookout in Marshall County, Mississippi, on the Holly Springs National Forest; NHLR-registered 2022. No build date, current status, staffing or fire history found.

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
Standing
Type
Cab on a tower100 ft Aermotor tower, lattice constructionThe design: Aermotor
Built of
SteelGoing by its design; no source says so in words.
Built
Unknown
Height
100 ft (30.5 m)
Elevation
514 ft (157 m)
Agency
USFS
Land
Federal land
Location
Marshall County, Mississippi
Coordinates
34.62054, −89.31392
This entry
VerifiedResearched, then checked independently. Updated 8 Oct 2026.
Firefinder id
us-ms-winborn

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History

Then and now

  1. 2022 Added to the National Historic Lookout RegisterRegistered June 23, 2022 as US 1612, MS 11; nominated by JasonSource: nhlr.org
  2. 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 (click the spot there to list them, with dates and downloads).

Story

Researched 8 Oct 2026, fact-checked.

The Winborn Lookout Tower is in Marshall County, Mississippi, within the Holly Springs National Forest.1,2 The National Historic Lookout Register describes it as a 100 ft Aermotor tower, administered by the USFS.1 OpenStreetMap tags it as an observation tower with lattice construction.3

The sources do not record when it was built. The Register gives the build date as unknown, and the other page I read does not offer one.1,2

I found no account of who staffed the tower, which fires it watched, or whether it was moved, abandoned or restored. Two web searches turned up nothing about this lookout.

The Register lists the tower as registered on June 23, 2022, as US 1612, MS 11, on a nomination by someone listed only as Jason.1 It gives the site elevation as 514 feet (157 meters), while OpenStreetMap gives 145 meters.1,3 The sources do not say which figure is more accurate.

The Register's page carries a photograph credited to Matthew Nichols and dated May 2024. That is the most recent sign of the tower in these sources, and none of them says whether it still stands.1,2,3

The sources do not say whether the public may climb or visit the tower. Contact the Forest Service before any visit, and do not climb the tower if it is closed or posted off limits.

  1. Winborn Lookout Tower, National Historic Lookout Register (nhlr.org), http://nhlr.org/lookouts/us/ms/winborn-lookout-tower/ (accessed 2026-10-08). ↩
  2. Winborn, Forest Lookouts (easternuslookouts.weebly.com), https://easternuslookouts.weebly.com/winborn.html (accessed 2026-10-08). ↩
  3. Winborn Lookout Tower, OpenStreetMap node 357997311, https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/357997311 (accessed 2026-10-08). ↩

Photos

Photo of Winborn Lookout Tower
Photo: National Historic Lookout Register (nhlr.org) · All rights reserved · source
May 2024 photo
May 2024 photo (2024)Photo: Matthew Nichols, via 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, type, what it is built of, status, register numbers, agency, ownership, 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. FOREST LOOKOUTS -- eastern US (easternuslookouts.weebly.com) Gave us: 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
  3. OpenStreetMap -- fire lookout structures Gave us: links © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL 1.0. (c) OpenStreetMap contributors. · retrieved 4 Oct 2026
  4. 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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