Fire lookout · Madison County, North Carolina
Big Knob
- Status unknown
- Access unknown
- Unverified
Unverified entry
This comes from a single source and nobody has checked it yet, so details may be wrong. If you know better, suggest an edit.
Status unknown: We do not know yet whether it still stands.
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 towerAermotorThe design: Aermotor
- Built of
- SteelGoing by its design; no source says so in words.
- Built
- Unknown
- Height
- 73 ft (22.3 m)
- Elevation
- Unknown
- Agency
- North Carolina Division of Forest Resources
- Land
- Unknown
- Location
- Madison County, North Carolina
- Coordinates
- 35.88694, −82.55666
- Registers
- NGS FB 3805
- This entry
- UnverifiedFrom a single source and not yet checked. Details may be wrong. Updated 8 Oct 2026.
- Firefinder id
us-nc-big-knob
View from the cab
What you see from the 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.
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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.
Big Knob is a fire lookout tower (Aermotor design) site in Madison County, North Carolina. Whether it still stands is not recorded.
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Sources
- tnlandforms.us fire lookout towers (Tom Dunigan) -- GA, NC, TN (opens another site) Gave us: name, location, county, type, register numbers, links tnlandforms.us (Tom Dunigan) · No licence stated; facts only (coordinates, county, elevation, NGS/GFC/BLL register cross-references, status where given). · retrieved 4 Oct 2026
- FOREST LOOKOUTS -- eastern US (easternuslookouts.weebly.com) (opens another site) Gave us: what it is built of, design, height, agency, photos, 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
More about this lookout elsewhere
- Big Knob (tnlandforms.us (Tom Dunigan)) (opens another site)
- Big Knob (easternuslookouts.weebly.com) (opens another site)
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